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1254 ABA Journal Privacy Law articles.

All Calls and E-Mails to be Stored in UK?

Updated: Officials in Great Britain are considering a possible plan to store all electronic communications—telephone calls, e-mails, text messages and Internet information—for up to a year in a massive government database, as a potential evidence trove in terrorism cases and other crimes. Phone calls and text messages are already kept:…

May 20, 2008 2:59 PM CDT

Court Says Law Protects Law Firm Sued for Obtaining Vehicle Records

A federal appeals court has ruled a Florida law firm researching litigation against car dealerships did not violate federal law when it bought registration information about thousands of vehicles. The owner of a Chevrolet Impala had sued the law firm for violating the privacy law when it acquired information about…

May 13, 2008 12:03 PM CDT

Lisa Marie Presley Sues Paper: I Was Pregnant, Not Fat

Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of famed rock-and-roll singer Elvis Presley, has sued a British newspaper, contending that her privacy was invaded when it falsely claimed that she was fat. Rather than simply “piling on the pounds,” as the Daily Mail initially reported in an article criticizing her allegedly unhealthy…

Mar 11, 2008 8:05 PM CDT

Novel Issue in Cyber Porn Case: Can Man Take Fifth re Password?

A child pornography case concerning illicit images allegedly stored in the defendant’s laptop computer has created what experts say is a novel Fifth Amendment issue. Can the defendant assert his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination to stymie federal agents seeking his password in order to access the encryption-protected images and…

Feb 8, 2008 12:26 AM CST

New ‘Big Brother’ Software Will Monitor Workers’ Facial Expressions

Privacy advocates, rev your engines: Microsoft is developing what a British newspaper describes as “Big Brother” software that will allow employers remotely to monitor their workers’ productivity, competence and physical well-being to a degree never before seen. Among other data, wireless sensors will provide employers with workers’ heart rates and…

Jan 16, 2008 4:41 PM CST

Lawyers Probed in ‘Pretext’ ID Theft

Updated: Lawyers throughout the country reportedly may be investigated as part of a Washington state-based probe of an alleged scheme in which a local firm, BNT Investigations, was hired by private detectives all over the U.S. to obtain confidential personal information by pretext. A federal grand jury in Seattle has…

Dec 7, 2007 12:06 AM CST

Web Host Shuts Down 100s of Sites Due to Hacker Attack

Fasthosts has been forced temporarily to shut down hundreds of websites, after computer hackers penetrated the “master database” and apparently stole some private customer information including passwords, addresses and bank details. To prevent repeat information thefts, the web host is now sending out new passwords for its sites by regular…

Dec 6, 2007 4:33 PM CST

Hackers Hit Duke Law School Site

Computer hackers broke into a website at Duke University School of Law, and may have stolen social security numbers and other confidential information for as many as 1,400 or more prospective and actual applicants. The security breach is still being investigated, but a law school spokeswoman says officials “have some…

Dec 5, 2007 5:30 PM CST

Have Law, Will Travel

New breed of firms provides lower-cost, high-skill help

Dec 1, 2007 5:14 PM CST

Conviction for Sex With Bike Sparks Freewheeling Debate

Caught in the midst of a sexual act, behind a locked door in his own bedroom with … his bicycle, a 51-year-old Scottish man is now a convicted sex criminal. After being literally caught with his pants down, Robert Stewart of Ayr admitted a sexually aggravated breach of the peace,…

Nov 16, 2007 8:51 PM CST

Are Planned Facebook Ads Illegal?

Innovative new advertising planned on the Facebook social networking Web site could be illegal, depending on how far it goes in linking targeted individual advertising to what the recipient’s friends do and say online. And the campaign certainly creates privacy issues, whether or not it creates potential causes of action,…

Nov 9, 2007 12:31 AM CST

Big Brother in Britain: Going Too Far?

Big Brother isn’t just watching these days in much of Britain. He’s telling people what to do. “Pick it up!” an authoritative voice booms, for instance, when pedestrians near a McDonald’s restaurant in the town of Gloucester drop trash, reports the Los Angeles Times. Britain has the most extensive closed-circuit…

Oct 19, 2007 3:31 PM CDT

Judge Allows NASA Background Checks

A federal judge has refused to halt background checks for 28 workers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. U.S. District Judge Otis Wright of Los Angeles refused to issue an injunction after the government said information about past drug use would not be used in criminal cases against the workers, the…

Oct 4, 2007 6:04 PM CDT

New Practice Area: Data Security

An epidemic of computer laptop thefts has helped launch a new area of legal practice: data security. Between 600,000 and 1.5 million laptops are stolen annually, and an increasing number of lawsuits are being filed over the loss of large amounts of sensitive data that often results. Meanwhile, as new…

Sep 7, 2007 3:50 PM CDT

LA Trend: More Confidentiality Contracts

Hollywood’s entertainment and business elite are, of course, perennially concerned about privacy. But ever-more-stringent efforts are now being made to safeguard from public scrutiny the personal lives of Los Angeles residents at all levels of society. Among the latest innovations, reports the Los Angeles Times, are standard rules requiring relatively…

Jul 26, 2007 6:52 PM CDT

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Privacy Law

All Calls and E-Mails to be Stored in UK?

Court Says Law Protects Law Firm Sued for Obtaining Vehicle Records

Lisa Marie Presley Sues Paper: I Was Pregnant, Not Fat

Novel Issue in Cyber Porn Case: Can Man Take Fifth re Password?

New ‘Big Brother’ Software Will Monitor Workers’ Facial Expressions

Lawyers Probed in ‘Pretext’ ID Theft

Web Host Shuts Down 100s of Sites Due to Hacker Attack

Hackers Hit Duke Law School Site

Have Law, Will Travel

Conviction for Sex With Bike Sparks Freewheeling Debate

Are Planned Facebook Ads Illegal?

Big Brother in Britain: Going Too Far?

Judge Allows NASA Background Checks

New Practice Area: Data Security

LA Trend: More Confidentiality Contracts

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