Tag: law

Rep. Mike Rogers Blocks Pro-Privacy Amendments From Being Added To CISPA
The House will vote on CISPA this week. This vote will decide whether or not the House majority thinks companies should be able to share your private online information with the go...
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Civil Liberty Groups Still Don’t Like CISPA, Issue Open Letter To Congress
After a closed door markup, CISPA emerged from the House Intelligence Committe...
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Child Pornographer’s Sentence Overturned After Judge Goes On Strange, Irrelevant Rant About Facebook, Zuckerberg
An 8-year prison sentence for a convicted child pornographer has been vacated and remanded for resentencing following a procedural error that involved the judge in the case going o...
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Baggy Pants Illegal In Louisiana Town, Opponents Say Law Is Slippery Slope
Baggy pants are tacky, but making the questionable fashion statement illegal seems to be taking it a bit too far. One town in Louisiana apparently doesn't see the problem as it has...
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Obama Administration Says CISPA Still Has Some Issues
On Wednesday, CISPA came closer to reality as it passed the markup phase i...
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Mapping While Driving Ruled Illegal in California
Thanks to a recent court ruling by a California appellate court, it doesn't matter that you were only checking your smartphone to update Google Maps. That's because the law, as it...
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Rep. Louie Gohmert Thinks We’re Being Scroogled
Microsoft's latest, and now retired,...
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Sen. Patrick Leahy Introduces ECPA Reform Bill In The Senate
The House has been unusually proactive early this year in attempting to pass email privacy protections through an updated Electronic Communications Privacy Act. In fact, the...
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Supreme Court Upholds First-Sale Doctrine On Items Bought Overseas
Does the first-sale doctrine apply to items bought overseas? That was the question before the Supreme Court in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. It was an extremely imp...
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Google’s Richard Salgado Says ECPA Reform Is Needed To Preserve Innovation
We brought you word yesterday that the House Judiciary Committee would be...
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Email Privacy Hearing Set To Go Before The House On Tuesday
Late last month, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte said that...
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Sen. Patrick Leahy’s Cellphone Unlocking Bill Is A Temporary Fix For A Broken DMCA
Cellphone unlocking has become a top priority in Washington since the White Ho...
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Can States Do A Better Job Of Protecting Online Privacy?
In cyberlaw, 2012 was defined by the federal government attempting to pass laws that...
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Smartphone Unlocking Bill To Be Introduced In The Senate
In a statement released yesterday, The White House said that it sides with...
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Square Hit with Cease and Desist Order in Illinois
Mobile payments startup Square has apparently run afoul of the Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation. In...
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