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Facebook's Facial Recognition: You've Been Tagged
A number of media outlets have been reporting that the European Union is investigating Facebook’s rollout of its new face-recognition photo-tagging system. Mashable reported that the new feature...
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Is Your Cell Phone Causing Cancer? Will it Cause More Litigation?
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a division of the World Health Organization (WHO), recently reclassified cell phone radiation emissions as a “possible carcinogen”. Forbes...
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Sony Data Breach Part VII: Suspect Nabbed!
CNN reported that the 19 year-old suspected of hacking into Sony’s networks was recently arrested in London. Britain does not release the name of criminal suspects, but London’s Metropolitan Police...
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Mobile Wars: Apple v. Samsung
Yesterday, Bloomberg reported that the legal rift between Apple, Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. widened when Apple filed a complaint seeking to block imports of Samsung Galaxy S mobile phones and...
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Digging for Data
During the past two months, FICO quietly rolled out a program to score individuals on the probability that they will take their prescription medications in the manner prescribed. As the privacy...
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Damages Reduced Against MP3Tunes
The American Lawyer recently reported on a decision by federal district court Judge William Pauley, III that is likely to have a lasting impact in the cloud-based storage and computing industry....
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E-Books v Paper Books in the Legal Community
The legal community is beginning to take notice of the trend of moving away from paper and toward eBooks. Attorney Jean P. O'Grady recently blogged on the topic. Ms. O’Grady concluded that the eBook...
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Your Phone Knows More About you Than you Mom Does
Ad Age recently posted an article addressing the meteoric rise and overwhelming dominance of the smartphone. At the end of this holiday season, over 50 percent of mobile phone users will be using a...
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If the Shoe Fits (and the Data's been Breached) File a Law Suit!
On January 16, 2012, attorneys filed a class action against Amazon.com relating to an online hacking attack that compromised the personal information of up to 24 million customers of its online shoe...
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Is Google Googling You?
If you use the Google search engine (and I’m guessing that includes pretty much everyone) you may have noticed a text box appearing on the screen during the past couple weeks, imploring you to read...
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There's an App for That! Apps that Share User Data
Three law firms based in Austin, Texas recently filed suit on behalf of 13 people claiming that almost 20 apps, including Facebook, Foursquare, Yelp and Twitter, violate policies put in place by...
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Internet Broadens Definition of Federal Wire Fraud
As a recent post on PointofLaw.com noted, the Tenth Circuit recently affirmed the convictions of Howard O. Kieffer. Kieffer, who for several years practiced criminal defense law, had a problem - he...
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New Google Service - Creative or Creepy
Google recently launched a new service called Google Now that is available to users of its most current mobile operating system, Android Jelly Bean. Google Now automatically creates and presents a...
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Rent to Own Computers and the FTC
Wired Magazine recently reported that seven rent-to-own companies and a software manufacturer are settling charges with the Federal Trade Commission. The charges claimed that computers rented from the...
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The Cloud with a Silver Lining?
The "cloud." It’s a term all of us have become familiar with, but also one that many of us give little thought to within the context of our law practices. That, however, is likely to change, as an...
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