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[…] privacy, which suggest that both entities plan to play important and perhaps competing roles in this area. D EPARTMENT OF COMMERCE , INTERNET POLICY TASK FORCE , COMMERCIAL DATA PRIVACY AND INNOVATION IN THE INTERNET ECONOMY : A DYNAMIC POLICY FRAME WORK (2010), F EDERAL TRADE COMMISSION , PROTECTING CONSUMER PRIVACY IN AN ERA […]

[…] Fairview Clinics , the Court of A ppeals of Minnesota wrote that: It is true that mass communication is no longer limited to a tiny handful of commercial purveyors and that we live with much greater access to information than the era in which the tort of invasion of privacy developed. A town crier […]

[…] – can be considered as a sub set of persona l information, and because of its sensitive nature greater care must be taken in its handling. In commercial contexts where consumers are involved, p rivacy is about the protection and careful use of the PII of customers , and about m eeting the expectation […]

[…] Police Benevolent Association or a new candidate for Congress. Now here’s the tricky part. A social networking platform typically configures itself the same way for contacts with commercial companies and with political cam-paigns and other nonprofits. To the extent privacy laws shape the configuration of a social networking operation, it is not clear how […]

[…]   Dun  &  Bradstreet,  Inc  v  Greenmoss Builders, Inc, 472 US 749, 761 (1985) .    [FN45] .  Nor  does  trade  secret  law  consider  the  parties’  expectations  to  be  a  substantial  factor  in  whether a valuable  commercial idea has been shared  so widely as to have lost its status as a trade  secret. See  Rockwell Graphic Systems,  Inc v DEV Industries,  Inc , 925 F2d 174, 178-79 (7th Cir  1991) .    [FN46] .  For  a  notable  exception,  see  Paul  M.  Schwartz,  Privacy  and  Democracy  in  Cyberspace,  52  Vand  […]

[…] children and students? Who does the CCPA apply to? ● Any business that o has annual gross revenues over $25M o buys, receives, sells or shares (for commercial purposes) the personal information of 50,000+ CA consumers, households or devices; or o derives >50% of its revenues from selling consumers’ personal information * There is […]

[…] 2.  Defamation …………………………….. …………………………………………………….     3.  Privacy Torts ………………………….. …………………………………………………….     4.  Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress . ………………………………………     C.  Civil Rights Law ……………………….. ………………………………………………………   III.  Extra-Legal Approaches to Online Wrongs ….. …………………………………………     A.  The Need for a Multi-Modal Approach ………. ………………………………………..     B.  Empowering Victims to Combat Online Abuses … ………………………………….     1.  Reputation Management Techniques …………. …………………………………….     2.  Education………………………………. ……………………………………………………..     C.  A Critique of Existing  Commercial Reputation D efense Services …………….     D.  Effective Reputation Defense Strategies …… ………………………………………….     1. Enhanced Access to Reputation Defense Services . ……………………………..     2. Cyber-Abuse Hotlines …………………….. ………………………………………………     3. Evolving Online Norms ……………………. …………………………………………….     4. Industry Self-Regulation …………………. ………………………………………………   IV.  Conclusions ……………………………. …………………………………………………………..     [Draft:  June 12, 2010]  Repairing Online Reputation   3  Introduction    “Once, reputation was hard-earned and carefully gua […]

[…]     The  publicity  surrounding  the  NSA  allegations  and  lawsuits  dra- matically  highlights  the  extent  to  which  telephone  traffic  data  is  rou- tinely  recorded  and  stored  by  commercial  carriers,  in  part  for  billing  purposes. 48  ISPs  are  another  repositor y  of  large  caches  of  tra ffic  data.  ISP logs contain traffic data about email senders a nd recipients, instant  message  participation,  participation  in  chat  […]

[…] to jurisdiction. The early privacy cases were in some disarray, with courts in various states embracing or rejecting rights to privacy in tort in a variety of commercial and personal contexts. The fact pattern ofRobersonand Pavesichwas common, with perhaps a majority of the early cases recognizing rights of privacy in the context of the […]

[…] related in any manner to criminal wrongdoing. 62 The FBI can now collect “publicly available information, whether obtained directly or through services or resources (whether nonprofit or commercial) that compile or analyze such 57 . See Jeffrey Benner, The Army is Watching Your Kid, W IRED NEWS , Jan. 29, 2001, at http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,41476,00.html. 58 […]