Privacy
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Asha Rangappa, Asians, Blogging, Law Schools, Media and Journalism, Privacy, Transfer Students
Confessions of an Aspiring Yale Transfer Student
Law student Tammy Hsu, a first-year student at Wake Forest University School of Law, seeks to harness public exposure for her own benefit. Hsu writes a blog built around her goal of transferring into Yale Law School. Sounds like a great idea, right? Not when the internet isn't on your side.... -
American Bar Association / ABA, Cellphones, Fabulosity, Fast Food, Food, Gay, Gay Marriage, Law Schools, Nauseating Things, Non-Sequiturs, Police, Privacy, Technology, Television, Texas
Non-Sequiturs: 08.10.11
* Should the police be able to use mobile-phone location data in order to locate a charged defendant? Kash reports on a recent decision. [Not-So Private Parts / Forbes] * More importantly, should Bert and Ernie of Sesame Street get “gay married”? [Althouse] * The ABA takes a lot of blame for the inadequacy of […] -
California, Crime, Cyberlaw, Facebook, Privacy, Social Networking Websites, Technology
Don't Mess With Your Friend's Facebook; It Might Be a Felony
When I was in college, it was not altogether uncommon for people to leave their laptops unattended with their Facebook accounts still logged in. It was not altogether uncommon for an enterprising prankster to creatively twiddle with said account. A little switch of sexual preference here, a mildly offensive profile picture there, and maybe a […] -
Airplanes / Aviation, Lawsuit of the Day, Privacy, Travel / Vacation
Lawsuit of the Day: Asking For Proof Of Panties Is One Way To Put Them in a Bunch
Did JetBlue go too far in its passenger screening procedures? One New York woman alleges that a JetBlue employee demanded not just proof of identification, but proof of... panties.
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Biglaw, Drinking, Football, Kramer Levin, Morning Docket, Privacy, Sports, Technology
Morning Docket: 07.20.11
* News Corp. has hired Paul Weiss attorney Mark Mendelsohn, a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act expert, to advise them. In related news, Chuck Norris has hired Wendi Deng Murdoch to advise him. [WSJ Law Blog] * Utah’s goofy liquor laws are examined in this New York Times article. The restrictive laws clearly came out of […]
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Bad Ideas, Crime, Cyberlaw, Pornography, Privacy, Technology
This Lawyer Had the Worst Neighbor Ever
We’ve all had obnoxious neighbors. The stoners who play music too loud, the dysfunctional lovers who are always yelling at each other… it’s part of life. Most of us, though, have not lived next door to our own personal cyber-terrorist. Minnesota attorney Matthew Kostolnik has. His neighbor “launched a calculated campaign to terrorize his neighbors, […] -
Baseball, Law Professors, Money, Non-Sequiturs, Privacy, Student Loans, United Kingdom / Great Britain
Non-Sequiturs: 07.12.11
* TLC’s Sister Wives are challenging Utah’s bigamy laws. More power to these polygamist people, especially the men. They deserve some credit for tolerating a handful of wives. [Jonathan Turley] * Screw law students, we need to keep our professors employed. This is definitely the most important thing the ABA needs to worry about right […] -
New Jersey, Privacy, Technology
New Jersey Court Says It's Okay To Use GPS To Track a Cheating Spouse
Next year, the Supreme Court will decide whether it’s okay for law enforcement to put a GPS tracking device on someone’s car without a warrant. Some courts say yes and some courts say no. If it’s not the po-po tracking you, though, but a spouse who suspects you might be cheating, a New Jersey court […] -
9th Circuit, Alex Kozinski, Constitutional Law, Email Scandals, Federal Judges, Media and Journalism, Privacy, Technology
Judge Alex Kozinski and his Famous Law Clerk, Stephanie Grace, Say The Fourth Amendment is Dead
The Honorable Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and one of his law clerks have penned a eulogy for the Fourth Amendment. It’s been murdered, Judge Kozinski and Stephanie Grace write in an editorial for The Daily, and you all are the guilty culprits. You’ve put a […] -
Privacy, Travel / Vacation
Honestly TSA, WTF Is Wrong With You?
We live in strange times. Unreasonable times. Times when the federal government has stopped rationally protecting people and started irrationally molesting people. What has the TSA done now? -
China, Cyberlaw, Email Scandals, Google / Search Engines, Privacy, Screw-Ups, Technology
Chinese Hackers Hijack Hundreds of Gmail Accounts
This news is more than a little scary. Google announced yesterday that hackers in China had gotten access to hundreds of Gmail accounts. And it wasn’t just anyone’s email. The attack targeted senior government officials in the United States, Chinese political activists, officials in several Asian countries, military personnel, and journalists. I have a feeling […] -
Crime, Murder, Privacy, Social Networking Websites, Technology
Prosecutorial Misadventures with MySpace Evidence
The practice of “oversharing” on social networks has been a boon for law enforcement. Investigations regularly involve checking out people’s Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn profiles. Thus, it’s probably unwise to post about your involvement in a crime. Or about threatening a witness set to testify against your boyfriend. While investigating Antoine Griffin, a murder suspect […] -
Crime, Education / Schools, Gay, New Jersey, Pranks, Privacy, Sentencing Law, Suicide
Wei To Go (and Testify Against Dharun Ravi)
Molly Wei, the pretty ex-Rutgers student who was charged with two counts of invasion of privacy in the Tyler Clementi case, has reached a deal with the prosecution. Wei, 19, has been admitted to a pre-trial intervention program that could result in the charges against her being dismissed. What does Wei have to do as […] -
Crime, Facebook, Privacy, Rape, Technology, United Kingdom / Great Britain
An Update on WikiLeaks and Its International Man of Mischief, Julian Assange
Although I’m no longer an editor here at Above the Law (*tear*), you know my byline occasionally still pops up to bring you news of lonely lawyers and goings-on in the world of privacy. This week, I asked Elie and Lat if they were interested in a lawsuit against a computer rental store accused of […] -
Bad Ideas, Facebook, Health Care / Medicine, Privacy, Screw-Ups, Social Networking Websites, Technology
ER Doc Forgets Patient Info is Private, Gets Fired for Facebook Overshare
I’m done whining about Facebook privacy issues. Everyone should know by now that Facebook and privacy are basically mutually exclusive. But every once in a while, someone does something stupid relating to Facebook privacy in a new, exciting way — like stealing a computer and posting photos of yourself on the owner’s page, or uploading […] -
Education / Schools, Gay, New Jersey, Pranks, Privacy, Suicide
Tyler Clementi's Roommate, Dharun Ravi, Indicted on 15 Counts
They really threw the book at this kid. Last September, Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi jumped off of the George Washington Bridge after his roommate, Dharun Ravi, surreptitiously recorded and then broadcast footage of Clementi hooking up in his room with another man. Clementi’s death touched off an important national conversation about the bullying of gay […] -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 04.13.11
* It looks like Jonathan Lee Riches has some competition. Check out this crazy lawsuit filed against Apple (and many other defendants), by one David Louis Whitehead. Why do the wackos always have three names? [Apple Insider] * Check out Professor Glenn Reynolds’s interesting argument against a federally-mandated drinking age of 21. “If you get […] -
Cellphones, Facebook, Google / Search Engines, Privacy, Technology
Are Tech Companies Becoming Unofficial Intelligence Agents?
The satirical Onion News Network recently reported on new government funding for that “massive online surveillance program run by the CIA,” known as Facebook — dreamed up by “secret C.I.A. agent Mark Zuckerberg.” The report made light of how much information we’re willing to make available to a third party — information that we would […] -
Cyberlaw, Privacy, Screw-Ups, Technology
Hackers Probably Stole Your Email Address Last Weekend
Raise your hand if you are a JPMorgan Chase customer. Now raise your hand if you’ve shopped at Best Buy. How about Citibank, Target or Walgreens? Has everybody in the world raised their hands yet? Congratulations — your email address may have been stolen. There was a data breach at Epsilon, a Texas-based marketing firm, […] -
Benchslaps, Copyright, Cyberlaw, Federal Judges, Intellectual Property, Pornography, Privacy, Technology
Suing Hundreds of Anonymous People Will Not Make You Popular
It’s not everyday you get porn, file sharing lawsuits, amateur motions to quash subpoenas, and a federal judge quoting Shakespeare’s King John, all wrapped up in a nice legal bundle of joy. Here we go, from the beginning: Chicago attorney John Steele, whose firm website is located at www.WeFightPiracy.com, represents CP Productions, the filmmakers behind […]