A juror in Arlington, Texas found out the hard way that sending a Facebook friend request to the defendant in his case was a bad idea. Jonathan Hudson was a juror in a civil auto accident trial when he decided to send a friend request to Courtney Downing, the defendant. Downing immediately notified [...]
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Last month I blogged about Missouri’s Amy Hestir Student Protection Act, a law which prohibits private communications between teachers and students on social media websites. Several readers shared their concerns about the vagueness and breadth of the Act in the comments. It seemed that the law was clearly running afoul of several Constitutional [...]
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Over the past decade, internet users have taken part in a continuously changing online experience. Privacy, one of the most dynamic features of this experience, always seems to be the cause of significant shifts in online behavior. In the beginning, there were chat rooms resembling the wild west, where users could [...]
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Less than a week after Facebook announced plans to enable face recognition across its social networking site, privacy groups demonstrated the gravity of their concerns about the new technology, filing a complaint that asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to force Facebook to end plans for the new service. The privacy groups specifically asked that the FTC stop Facebook from [...]
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