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  EPR Network Blog — Authority: 149
  
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• Do CRU emails show FOIA wrong-doing?

  
  Law is Cool — Authority: 432
  There’s been a lot of hype in the past few days about a batch of emails that were either hacked or leaked from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) . In the view of some opponents to climate change legislation, these emails depict collusion and conspiracy among leading climate change ...
  4 days ago

• Court Kills ‘Round-The-Clock’ Surveillance Case

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 505
  Court Kills ‘Round-The-Clock’ Surveillance Case : Via Threat Level . Welcome to the tinfoil hat club. That’s what a federal appeals court is telling Scott Tooley of Kentucky in dismissing his civil rights lawsuit. Tooley believes the government put him under blanket surveillance after he said the word ...
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• Lawsuit: Use of rival’s name as keyword invades privacy

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 151
  Dinesh Ramde of Associated Press reports on a lawsuit in Wisconsin that makes an intriguing legal argument. The law firm of Habush, Habush, & Rottier is suing rival law firm Cannon & Dunphy for buying the words “Habush” and “Rottier” from Google for keywords. Habush argues that by purchasing the ...
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• 201 CMR 17: What is it? And why are we hearing so much about it now?

  
  CA on Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) — Authority: 116
  First off, the formalities: 201 CMR 17.00, it’s a lovely name, but what does it mean?  201 is the code for the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, CMR stands for Code of Massachusetts Regulation and finally 17 is their 17th published Commonwealth regulation.  Most of us in the United ...
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• Court officer ordered to apologize

  
  Law is Cool — Authority: 432
  In the latest developments of this bizarre case in Maricopa County, Arizona, Judge Gary Donohue has ruled that detention officer Adam Stoddard acted inappropriately when he removed and photocopied a document from the file defence attorney Joanne Cuccia. Judge Donohue has ordered Stoddard to apologize, however ...
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• Hasan and the Obligation to Intervene

  
  FromDC2Iowa — Authority: 120
  November 16, 2009, 6:00 a.m. Major Hasan: A Case Study in Responsibility (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*) As everyone in the world with access to the media has been informed, "[Army] Major [Nidal Malik] Hasan, 39, an Army psychiatrist . . ., is accused of opening fire with a pistol on Nov. 5 at a ...
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• Reasons Not To Spy On Spouse

  
  reviewsignsofcheatingspouse.com — Authority: 115
  Do you feel that your spouse is begin dishonest and could possibly be cheating on you? Well before you go out and begin trying to spy on them; let me give you some reasons not to spy on your spouse. When people feel that their spouse is cheating one of the first things they [...]
  2 weeks ago

• TSA nominee questioned over FBI censure

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 505
  TSA nominee questioned over FBI censure : Via washingtonpost.com . Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) questioned President Obamas nominee to lead the nations airport security agency Tuesday about a censure he received from the FBI in 1988. Erroll Southers, who was serving as an FBI special agent at the time of the ...
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• Author Melanie Bueckert discusses employee monitoring law

  
  Slaw — Authority: 606
  I’ve never pre-ordered a textbook until Melanie Bueckert’s “The Law of Employee Monitoring in Canada.” This is no slight to Melanie’s fantastic background, but I didn’t expect much. Though there are exceptions, many privacy texts tend to be thin on substance, perhaps because the domain is evolving so ...
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• Rhode Island Governor Vetoes E-ZPass Privacy Bill

  
  goldiron — Authority: 144
  Rhode Island Governor Vetoes E-ZPass Privacy BillBill protecting drivers from warrantless tracking through toll transponders vetoed in Rhode Island.  Rhode Island Governor Donald Carcieri (R) on Monday vetoed legislation that would have imposed privacy restrictions on the use of E-ZPass toll transponder data. The ...
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• Update on UK Council Surveilling Family Suspected of Living in Wrong School Zone

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 505
  Update on UK Council Surveilling Family Suspected of Living in Wrong School Zone : Via Privacy Lives . Last year, the Poole Borough Council in the UK targeted for surveillance a family suspected of living in the wrong school zone. The council used powers it had under the 2000 Regulation of Investigatory Powers ...
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• 15 Smart Grid Privacy Concerns + Other Smart Grid Thoughts

  
  Realtime Community | IT Compliance — Authority: 399
  Ive had about half a dozen folks ask me how things are going with the work Im doing with the NIST Smart Grid privacy group , and if I could provide an update since my last couple of posts on the topic here and here .The time is going by much too quickly, and I am getting a bit nervous as we get closer to when we ...
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• Protecting internet anonymity: the case for providing notice to anonymous defendants in defamation cases

  
  Law is Cool — Authority: 432
  An open issue in Canadian internet defamation law is whether courts should require that anonymous defendants be given notice of, and an opportunity to oppose, applications to compel the disclosure of their identities by third parties such as websites and internet service providers (“ISPs”). Because applications ...
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• Wanted: A Synopsis of Canadian Cybersecurity Laws

  
  Slaw — Authority: 606
  I have been asked (by an American colleague) if I know of any synopsis of “Canadian cybersecurity laws”. I am told that this expression means some mix analogous to the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, covering as well wiretaps, crimes, specific requirements for securing data. Core is private sector rather than ...
  3 weeks ago

• HIPAA And Surveillance In Hospitals

  
  Realtime Community | IT Compliance — Authority: 399
  Over the years there have been many...too many...instances where doctors have performed the wrong types of surgeries on patients, and even the wrong surgeries on completely wrong patients...
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• Google Privacy Tool

  
  Slaw — Authority: 606
  All the concerns about Google amassing information about users has led to the Internet giant deciding to be more transparent. You can see a video of Google Dashboard here . The control panel lets you see what Google is collecting about you, and modify your preferences. The Globe points out that some of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Privacy yes… but now is the time for employers to manage H1N1

  
  Slaw — Authority: 606
  Last Wednesday, the The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia and the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta published two documents on privacy and management of the H1N1 pandemic. This post invites critical ...
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• Case Report – Court denies ex parte order to preserve Facebook

  
  All About Information — Authority: 118
  On October 29th, Price J. of the Ontario Superior Court of justice denied a motion for an ex parte order for preservation of a plaintiff’s Facebook page. The motion was brought by a defendant to a personal injury claim. It brought its motion ex parte on the basis that the plaintiff would be likely to destroy ...
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• Bloggers Beware! ATL Gets Sued

  
  JD Journal — Authority: 141
  The blawg site abovethelaw.com has been sued by a Florida law professor, acting pro se.  Although ATL is refraining from comment out of respect for the judicial system, you can find a juicy analysis of the case and why its unlikely to survive a motion to dismiss here . Here’s a quick rundown of the background of ...
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