Written By: Jerry Chapin The last thing one should expect when sitting at home with their doors locked and shades drawn is for the United States government to be watching their every move. It’s safe to say that most of us have accepted the fact that advances in satellite technology and high tech… Read More New Radar Technology Used by Law Enforcement Presents Privacy Concerns
POSTED BY Briana Polan In today’s world, our cell phones are our lifelines. In addition to making calls, these little mini-computers contain our contacts, call lists, calendar information, text information, Internet searches, music library, camera and photo library, and more. In response to the growing use of cell phones, phone manufactures have given owners tools… Read More Privacy Rights vs. Quality Law Enforcement
POSTED BY Cherie M. Ching New informational sharing apps allow medical professionals to post photos and share comments regarding their patient’s medical conditions, similar to the components of the Instagram app. Although these apps may provide a higher degree of efficient and effective services to medical patients, issues of breach of privacy rights and… Read More Please Don’t Tag Me! Instagram for Doctors: #SpecificSymptoms, #RareDisease, #PatientConfidentiality, #PatientPrivacyRightsViolated
By: Mayra Neimerck We live in a digital age, where everyone has probably built some kind of online past, whether through social media postings, photos, newspaper articles or public documents. Recently, a number of celebrity nude photographs were released online. Most of these photos were obtained illegally but will circulate endlessly throughout the Internet.… Read More Should America Adopt the Right to be Forgotten?
POSTED BY Christopher Mills On June 5, 2013, The Guardian reported that the US government, specifically the NSA, had been listening into the phone calls, reading the text messages and even reading emails of U.S. citizens. This revelation changed how many Americans perceived their right to privacy from the government in relation to the use… Read More Justice Department Mimics NSA Search Techniques
POSTED BY Michael O’Brien Ever wonder where your Snaps go once they have been viewed? Most assume that they are immediately deleted and gone forever, allowing themselves to take pictures and videos they otherwise never would have taken. However, with subpar security and third-party services such as the popular Android app SnapSave, users could have… Read More Stop: Should You Really be Sending that Snap?
POSTED BY Anthony Gatto In a recent CNN story, it was reported that Eric Snowden leaked classified information to the press regarding a United States National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program titled “PRISM” which allows the NSA to gather information from such global giants as Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and others. Additionally, in a recent USA Today… Read More What to Know About Your Constitutional Rights to Data Privacy
POSTED BY Rebecca Ferrante Facebook announced it will soon relaunch Atlas, an advertising technology that allows the company’s advertising partners to send ads to Facebookers anywhere the service can “see” them on the Web – on their desktops, tablets or phones. Essentially, advertisers will use Atlas to display advertisements for a specific new product… Read More Facebook Online Advertising and Customer Data: Knowing Who, Where, When and Even Why Customer Buy
POSTED BY Nico Pingaro In 2008, the United States government threatened Yahoo! Inc. with a $250,000 fine unless the tech giant complied with demands for access to multiple user accounts. Yahoo!, aware that this demand would violate countless users’ privacy rights sought to protect this information under the shield of the Fourth Amendment. Yahoo’s threat… Read More Tech Giant, Yahoo!, Learns How Weak the Fourth Amendment Has Become
POSTED BY Kaleigh Fitzpatrick The growing opportunities for schools to integrate technology into classrooms and school administration are increasing productivity, organization, and capacity to foster positive student learning and development. The availability of these technologies, however, is putting a tremendous amount of pressure on administrators and teachers to implement these technologies now. Therefore, in the… Read More New Technologies in School Administration and Teaching Demand Revised Legislation to Protect Student Data Privacy
POSTED BY Erik Boos Google recently reported a surge in government demands for user data. During the first half of 2014, Google received 31,698 government requests, which do not include National Security Letters or requests under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). This leaves requests that fall under criminal or civil actions. Google’s Transparency Report describes… Read More Lost and Not Found: Email Messages may not be Retrievable From Third Party Hosts
POSTED BY Cherie Ching The heat and perspiration that one naturally produces while going out for a morning jog are the effects of a ‘machine’ producing energy to run, cool down, and release a type of ‘waste heat’ left over. On a larger scale, data centers and manufactures also generate energy to run and cool down,… Read More Waste Heat Energy; Should Companies be Required to Capture it?
POSTED BY Marion Goodsell The Consumer Electronics Association hailed the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend as a key to innovation in 2013. BYOD has long been in practice and has been gaining acceptance from employers, who seek the benefits of lower connectivity costs and increased productivity. However, there are potential legal and operational concerns for both employers… Read More Avoiding the Down-Sides of BYOD
POSTED BY Hillary Cheng In conjunction with the Rappaport Center, Suffolk Law Professor Jessica Silbey is organizing a program to teach online privacy to Boston-area middle schoolers with the help of law student volunteers. The program’s curriculum was developed at Fordham Law School, a project funded by a cy pres award in a settlement. The… Read More Educating Middle School Students on Internet Privacy
POSTED BY Lloyd Chebaclo Although the growing awareness of the NSA’s expansive domestic and international surveillance program may inure you to any further notions of invasions of electronic privacy, whenever you take advantage of the free Wi-Fi perks at your local brick and mortar stores, consider that you may be awash in retailers tracking you… Read More Retailers Track Customers via Wi-Fi
POSTED BY Rebecca Rubin Far below the all-seeing eye of the Internet lies the almost impenetrable and vast Deep Web. A relatively hidden virtual surface, out of reach of most standard search engines, technologically-savvy criminals have been able to set up Ebay-like platforms to make a quick buck. However, a recent October 2013 bust on… Read More Unweaving the Silk Road: The Deep Web and the [Almost] Perfect Virtual Escape
POSTED BY Rajat Bhardwaj “If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” -Noam Chomsky Expression is in the nucleus of our being. We require it to exist in a peaceful society, where conflict is handled by dialogue. But this leads to a tragic truth… Read More A Friendly Beast Named TOR
POSTED BY Rebecca Rubin Internet users are well-attuned to the prevalence of SPAM emails in their Inboxes. But really, some SPAM we assume is just clogging our Inboxes is merely an empty shell for a highly-intrusive hacking technique: phishing. Phishing is the reason SPAM emails can be so dangerous, and is the means employed to… Read More Gone “Phishing”
POSTED BY Edwin Batista On Friday, October 25, 2013 the Justice Department gave notice that it was going to use information obtained from acquisition of foreign intelligence information authorized under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act against suspected terrorist Jamshid Muhtorov. Muhtorov was charged with providing material support to the Islamic Jihad Union, a known foreign… Read More The Justice Department Attempts to Increase its Ability to Introduce Warrantless
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