Collaborate Disseminate
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Nov. 29 in a case that could radically transform not only privacy law and the way we look at the Fourth Amendment, but also could restructure the way cloud providers, IoT companies, data analytics firms and e… Continue reading Supreme Court and Private (Privacy) Property
This could go beyond Radio Shack and location data; it may apply to email/text messages, internet searches, and bank and credit card records. Continue reading Radio Shack robbery to have huge consequences for location privacy
We love the cloud. We store our documents there. Our e-mails travel through cloud or other third-party providers. Now the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to decide whether the physical location of both the communications or documents themselves, or the lo… Continue reading Supreme Court to Decide Major Internet Privacy and Jurisdiction Case
Warning that the U.S. Supreme Court’s emails “remain needlessly exposed to surveillance and potentially compromised by third parties,” Sen. Ron Wyden urged change Monday within the judicial branch and continued his office’s public campaign to bolster information security within the federal government. Wyden, D-Ore,, published a letter to the U.S. Supreme Court urging their director of information technology to adopt STARTTLS encryption “to better protect the privacy and security of the Court’s email communications.” Pointing to wide adoption of STARTTLS in private industry and across government, Wyden pushed the Supreme Court to use the technology because without it “email messages sent to and from the Supreme Court remain needlessly exposed to surveillance and potentially compromised by third parties.” The letter echoes another sent by Wyden earlier this year urging the Defense Information Systems Agency to implement STARTTLS in their email systems. “Major technology companies like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, and Apple […]
The post Wyden pushes Supreme Court to adopt email encryption standards that it currently doesn’t use appeared first on Cyberscoop.
Defending a convicted armed robber’s right to privacy feels distasteful, but defending rights are important – as this case seeks to do Continue reading Phone location privacy – for armed robber – headed to Supreme Court
Banning sex offenders from social media violates fundamental First Amendment rights, rules judge Continue reading Supreme Court: sex offenders can’t be banned from social media
A few months ago we reported on a case coming before the United States Supreme Court that concerned recycled printer cartridges. Battling it out were Impression Products, a printer cartridge recycling company, and Lexmark, the printer manufacturer. At issue was a shrinkwrap licence on inkjet cartridges — a legal agreement deemed to have been activated by the customer opening the cartridge packaging — that tied a discounted price to a restriction on the cartridge’s reuse.
It was of concern to us because of the consequences it could have had for the rest of the hardware world, setting a potential precedent …read more
Continue reading Impression Products V. Lexmark International: A Victory For Common Sense
When it comes to recycled printer consumables, the world seems to divide sharply into those who think they’re great, and those who have had their printer or their work ruined by a badly filled cartridge containing cheaper photocopy toner, or God knows what black stuff masquerading as inkjet ink. It doesn’t matter though whether you’re a fan or a hater, a used printer cartridge is just a plastic shell with its printer-specific ancilliaries that you can do with what you want. It has performed its task the manufacturer sold it to you for and passed its point of usefulness, if …read more
Continue reading Arch Your Eyebrow at Impression Products V. Lexmark International
The Peel Watershed, in the Yukon, is one of the largest intact pieces of wilderness left in North America. The Supreme Court will decide its fate. Continue reading The Fight to Protect This Swath of Wilderness Is Going to Canada’s Supreme Court
Deep freezing could be coming to the North. Continue reading The Only Anti-Cryonics Law In North America Is Being Challenged In Court