Attorney General Eric Holder has approved new guidelines that allow counterterrorism officials to hold data on U.S. residents and citizens for up to five years, even when there is no…
A bill pending in Nebraska would make the state the second to give estate representatives the power to handle social media accounts after the death of state residents.
Apps for popular social networking sites and games including Facebook, Twitter, Yelp and possibly Angry Birds are accessing confidential personal address book data without user permission, contends a federal suit…
A plainclothes Maryland state trooper approaches speeding suspect Anthony Graber, who captured the encounter with a camera atop his motorcycle helmet and later posted the video on YouTube.
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If you’d like to thwart Google’s plans to combine your online browsing history with data gathered from the company’s other products, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is offering some help.
Counsel for some of the defendants in complex nationwide litigation concerning claimed defects in ASR hip implants marketed by a unit of Johnson & Johnson are asking a Georgia judge…
This week, Legal Ethics Forum hosted the “LEF Symposium on Legal Education’s Response to the Economic Realities Facing the Profession.” It was conducted…
The ABA House of Delegates has adopted standards that could be used by courts and legislatures when deciding whether law enforcement investigating crimes should have access to records held by…
A 2011 graduate of a Miami-area high school is suing district officials over a photograph of him that was allegedly used to illustrate a story about sexually transmitted diseases among…
In a move likely to invite scrutiny of Google’s practices for potential antitrust and privacy law violations, the search-engine giant today announced that it soon begin combining into a single…
Citing a growing concern about potential jurors who conceal criminal convictions in order to qualify to serve on a panel, a New Jersey prosecutor is seeking court permission to perform…
The Internet age has produced a new type of business—reputation management companies—and they are helping lawyers and their clients defend their online reputations.