Privacy Law
1228 ABA Journal Privacy Law articles.
A Nebraska woman has been charged with performing or attempting an illegal abortion after prosecutors obtained Facebook messages indicating that she had obtained abortion pills for her daughter and then helped bury the fetus.
Aug 12, 2022 8:46 AM CDT
A federal judge in Texas has ruled against an immigration lawyer who contended that the government violated his constitutional rights when it seized his cellphone at the border.
Aug 9, 2022 12:19 PM CDT
Lawyers in New York will have to take at least a one-hour cybersecurity course as part of their continuing legal education requirements beginning in July 2023.
Aug 8, 2022 9:51 AM CDT
When the pandemic hit, QR codes became very popular as people looked for a contact-free way to share information. Privacy advocates, however, see a darker side to QR codes. “Really sensitive information about you is being collected and monetized by the QR code-generation company,” says Nicole A. Ozer, technology and civil liberties director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.
Aug 1, 2022 2:10 AM CDT
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is getting some attention for a recent speech and a new look—a beard described as “a work in progress” at the
Volokh Conspiracy blog.
Jul 29, 2022 10:53 AM CDT
As America’s culture wars intensify, the post-Roe landscape is possibly an even hotter legal battlespace than any seen before. As some law firms moved to help employees with reproductive health aid, blowback was swift from politicians hostile to abortion rights, with some even threatening to disbar those firm’s lawyers.
Jul 26, 2022 11:12 AM CDT
Technology companies could face a “disparate patchwork” of laws regulating abortion information in the aftermath of the
U.S. Supreme Court's decision overturning
Roe v. Wade, according to the Washington Post.
Jul 25, 2022 3:24 PM CDT
A Georgia abortion law expanding the definition of a “natural person” to include a fetus or an embryo is not unconstitutionally vague, a federal appeals court
ruled Wednesday.
Jul 20, 2022 4:12 PM CDT
A lawmaker who joined a Texas legislative caucus warning Sidley Austin about aiding illegal abortions is no longer listed as of counsel at another BigLaw firm.
Jul 20, 2022 10:20 AM CDT
A federal magistrate judge in California has ordered Google to pay more than $971,000 in attorney fees and costs for discovery violations in a lawsuit accusing the search engine company of privacy violations.
Jul 19, 2022 8:32 AM CDT
A judge in Arizona has allowed an ex-husband to serve as personal representative of an embryo in a wrongful death lawsuit that he filed against an abortion clinic and its doctors.
Jul 18, 2022 3:11 PM CDT
After the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe vs. Wade, many people have become concerned about protecting their data and covering their digital tracks. But according to some legal experts, people of color and marginalized groups will be most vulnerable to surveillance.
Jul 13, 2022 2:30 PM CDT
A MoveOn.org online petition calls for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign from the high court or face impeachment.
Jul 7, 2022 9:17 AM CDT
The U.S. Supreme Court's October 2021 term was one of the momentous in history. The only analogy I can think of is 1937 for its dramatic changes in constitutional law. This is the first full term with Justice Amy Coney Barrett on the high court, and we saw the enormous effects of having a 6-3 conservative majority.
Jul 7, 2022 8:46 AM CDT
State abortion bans that followed the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to
overturn Roe v. Wade didn’t go far enough for some opponents of the procedure.
Jul 6, 2022 11:59 AM CDT
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