When twenty year-old Michigan resident Hadley Jons logged onto Facebook a during a break from jury duty and saw the familiar “What’s on your mind?” prompt, she didn’t hesitate to answer: “[A]ctually excited for jury duty tomorrow,” she wrote on August 11. “It’s gonna be fun to tell the defendant they’re GUILTY.”
Now Jons is [...]
Continue Reading →The most popular social-networking website just hit a major milestone: 500 million users. It celebrated this milestone by launching a new application, Facebook Stories. Few people would disagree that Facebook has come a long way since its humble beginnings. I remember joining back when membership was limited to people [...]
Continue Reading →By now most have been warned of the dangers of posting sensitive or private information on social network sites. But this past Monday, July 12, 2010, National Public Radio (NPR) ran a story detailing the latest risk faced by users of Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and the like. Collection agencies are using social [...]
Continue Reading →New studies indicate that children who begin lying at an earlier age will be more successful in later life.
Hacking of personal information increases tenfold with introduction of Spokeo, a program that imports private information from social networking sites.
Continue Reading →Stay tuned for Is That Really Me?: Social Networking and the Right of Publicity in the Spring 2010 issue (Vol. 12, No. 2) of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law. The abstract for the note is below:
Social networking sites are ubiquitous in modern culture and popular with people of all [...]
Continue Reading →Youngsters who plan on celebrating the beginning of summer vacation by mocking their teachers on MySpace or Facebook would be wise to think twice, or they might be suspended in August for their summer antics. Two middle school students in Pennsylvania were suspended in two separate incidents for creating fake profiles [...]
Continue Reading →The upcoming Spring 2009 edition (Vol. 11, No. 3) of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law will contain the following Note regarding trade secret issues that have developed with the rise of company use of popular social networking websites. The Abstract for We’re Friends, Right? Client List Misappropriation and Online Social Networking [...]
Continue Reading →The explosion of social networking websites has been a growing phenomenon since the turn of the millennium. While some consider these sites to cater only to the self-absorbed and/or the overly sharing types, the fever seems to be catching on. According to a recent CNN article, the newest additions to the micro-blogging [...]
Continue Reading →With the advent of websites like Facebook, Myspace, and Friendster, the Internet has made it increasingly easy to stay in touch with classmates from years past. A simple search of an old friend’s name can restore lines of communication that have faded over time. But what happens [...]
Continue Reading →In the recent case of Badasa v. Mukasey, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit granted Plaintiff Lamilem Badasa’s Petition for Review following the Department of Homeland Security’s denial of her application for asylum. The court’s reason for granting the petition? Merely the fact that the Department based its interpretation [...]
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