More on the Cloud, Discovery, and the Stored Communications Act
My former colleague and friend Nolan Goldberg has published this nice piece on "Securing Communications in the Cloud" regarding the Central District of Illinois decision in US v. Weaver (yet another...
View ArticleQuon: US Supreme Court Rules Against Privacy on Employer-Issued Devices
The United States Supreme Court issued its decision today in City of Ontario, California v. Quon, ruling that a public employer’s examination of an employee’s personal text messages on a...
View ArticleRomano and Facebook: Muddling Toward the Law of Privacy on Social Networks
Those of us who watch the development of the law of electronic discovery, information security and privacy usually have nothing better to do on a Saturday night (except last Saturday when we saw the...
View ArticleCalifornia Federal Court Dismisses Bulk of Privacy Suit Against Facebook
In late 2010, David Gould and Mike Robertson filed a class action lawsuit against Facebook for disclosing users’ personal information to third-party advertisers without users’ consent. The Plaintiffs...
View ArticleThe Legal Implications of Social Networking: The Basics (Part One)
We are in the midst of a communications revolution. Use of social media for communication purposes continues to grow, while "old school" messaging media like email is on the decline. Facebook...
View ArticleSouth Carolina Supreme Court Splits with the Ninth Circuit Regarding Stored...
The Supreme Court of South Carolina recently ruled that the federal Stored Communications Act (“SCA”) provides no cause of action against a hacker who accessed a user’s webmail without authorization,...
View ArticleDoes the Stored Communications Act Protect an Email’s Subject Line From...
In other words, is the subject line considered “content” which the SCA says a service provider cannot disclose to a third party? Optiver Australia Pty. Ltd. & Anor. v. Tibra Trading Pty. Ltd. &...
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