We are likely all used to companies collecting information about our private online activity. Most top internet sites install tracking software that monitors activity across domains. With such pervasive internet surveillance already in place, one might ask what expectations of online privacy remain.
Despite open acknowledgement of private internet monitoring, most of the international [...]
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As an increasing number of employees use social media like Facebook and Twitter to communicate with their coworkers, the NLRB has recently issued a series of rulings and advisories that seek to protect employee rights in a social media context. Employers often seek to discourage employees from posting comments [...]
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By this point in the evolution of social media, we’ve probably all been warned to be cautious with the type of information we post and our privacy settings, especially in light of potential employers using Facebook to check on applicants. However, two British teenagers, Leigh Van Bryan and Emily Bunting, [...]
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If you have ever downloaded Norton antivirus software, and then run the “free diagnostic” the download provides, you may have been disturbed to see that a report came back with several errors, including some designated “high priority.” Perhaps Symantec offered to fix some of these errors for free; others [...]
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In an effort to face the new threats of modern warfare, the Pentagon ultimately concluded the old ways were the best ways in threatening to use conventional forces in response to any cyber attack on the U.S in order to deter any such attacks. While several administrative figures have suggested [...]
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Remote removal of malware and other malicious software is not new. However, the FBI and Department of Justice set new precedent this week when they sent remote, unsolicited execution commands to kill Coreflood botnet programs running on individual users’ computers.
The Coreflood botnet is (perhaps, was?) [...]
Continue Reading →To foster a free and independent press, most states protect the confidentiality of a journalist’s sources through “shield” laws. When these statutes were drafted decades ago, they had “journalists” of traditional media outlets in mind. But in the information age, is a blogger a “journalist”?
The New Jersey State Supreme Court recently [...]
Continue Reading →On January 18th the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) gave Comcast, the country’s largest cable company, the green-light to take over NBC Universal. Comcast already owns a handful of cable channels, including E! Entertainment and the Golf Channel. However, through its acquisition of a fifty-one percent stake [...]
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