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[…] U.S.C. §2511 (1)(b) –(d). 31 The issues are 1) interception; 2) consent; 3) provider; 4) ordinary course of business; and, 5) interstate commerce. 32 Konop v. Hawaiian Airlines, Inc., 302 F.3d 868, 886 –87 (9th Cir. 2002) (J. Reinh ardt, dissenting). earliest c ases, what the courts said was that it needs to be […]

[…] service, and such a broad interpretation 231 For an atypical example, see United States v. Mullins, 992 F.2d 1472, 1478 (9th Cir. 1993) (holding that when an airline employee investigated a travel agent‘s misuse of the airline‘s electronic ticketing service, the employee ―was acting within the scope of her employment to protect the rig […]

[…] 2000 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20052 Piecing together these pieces of information, one can link the anonymized record to William Doe and obtain his address. In Northwestern Memorial Hospital v. Ashcroft , Judge Richard Posner aptly recognized that de-identified data can readily be re -identified. 142 The government had subpoenaed patient records of […]

[…] Facebook has released a new privacy interface. 15. Where did you hear it from? Check all that apply. (a) Somebody told me in person or over the phone. (b) General News Source (c) On Facebook (such as from a friend’s status) (d) Privacy-related source. 16. Has the media a ected your behavior on Facebook? […]

[…] faster than through traditional or word of mouth campaigns. Second, messages posted online have ―persistence,‖ such that messages can be replicated, archived, and essentially made permanent through cheap digital copies. Writing in 2008, social media scholar danah boyd ma de a similar argument, in which she describe d the four primary components of networked […]

[…] (Simon   &  Schuster  2000)  (describing  the  decline  of  social  capital  in  the  United  States  and  identifying  social  capital’s  impact  on  education, safety, productivity,  economic well-bein g, democracy, health, and happiness); Robert  D. Putnam, Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions  in Modern Italy 152-62 (Princeton 1993)  (comparing the wealth of social capital in  northern  Italy to the dearth of social capital in southern  Italy and using the discrepancy to explain the sout h’s relative impoverishment).     [FN147] . See, for example, Rowley, 22 Acad Mgmt Rev at 903  (cited in note 93) (characterizing  a  Colombian  drug  cartel’s  structure  as  centralized  and  low-density);  Baker  and  Faulkner,  58  Am  Sociological Rev  at 854  (cited in note 139)  (findin […]

[…] 7,  at  [3]  (“Privacy  tort  law  is  a  product  of  prior  centuries’  hazards.    In  the  late  n ineteenth  century,  snap  cameras  and  recording  devices  provided  a  cheap  way  to  capture  o thers’  private  moments  without  detection.    The  penny  press  profited  from  the  publi cation  of  revealing  photographs  and  gossip about people’s personal lives.”)  155   Patricia  Sánchez  […]

[…] veillan ce. It is a natural by- product  of  modern  communication  technologies,  socia l  practices  that  rely  increasingly  on  communication  carried  by  comme rcial  intermedi- aries, and the fact that technology for data storag e has improved to the  point  that  it  is  extremely  cheap  to  keep  records  an d  to  store  them—  indeed  probably  cheaper  simply  to  keep  ever ything  t han  to  figure  out  what to keep and what to destroy. These trends can  only be expected to  continue.  Unless  they  […]

[…] beyond the s cope of this paper to determine whether privacy des ign fla ws are analogous to s ecurity bugs or if it is als o cheaper to fix the for me r at an ear ly as oppos ed to a later s tage, 10 See Staff Report, supra note 4 at […]

[…] for some time. 400 Cases where companies violate their privacy policies could also potentially benefit from breach of confidentiality claims. Consider, for example, two cases involving Northwest Airlines after a number of carriers disclosed passenger data in violation of their privacy policies to the federal government after the Septem- ber 11th attacks. InIn re […]