The New York City Open Data Project kicked off in 2010 and enshrined into law by Mayor Bloomberg in 2012, the effort aims to make all sorts of NYC data available to the public via the Internet. This aligns federal, state, and local government with...
Kate Middleton’s naked pix may be a great reason to write a "privacy and media law" advice piece, for instance. Your 6-month content plan should take the form of an editorial calendar that also captures key industry events and the state of mind of...
So Katz is seeking damages under international law. When people malign others, the law protects them. In the lawsuit, they state, “Registration of the Image with the copyright office is not a prerequisite to filing a claim for copyright...
In November 2011, Ohio voters defeated Issue 2, a law that would have limited the collective bargaining rights of 350,000 unionized public workers. The impact of YouTube even extends to state-level ballot initiatives.
Select Rhode Island law enforcement agencies are about to beef up their training, equipment and investigative budgets. Under the program allowing the distribution of forfeited funds among law enforcement agencies who participate in federal...
For a more complete timeline of Communications, Privacy and Internet Law, see SOPA on Miso Susanowa’s blog. Content creators, law professors, copyright holders, philosophers, the MPAA, and the RIAA, there’s a place at the table for them,” Hedger said.
For example, Michigan Auto Law, which specializes in serious car, truck and motorcycle accidents in that state, is using Xtranormal Movie Maker to make fun of a campaign to repeal Michigan’s motorcycle helmet law.
Search is not a government-run utility, established by law and thus subject to bureaucratic oversight. Think about all the forms of information that used tobe very difficult to access, but which are now at your fingertips, empowered not only by the...
Notice in the second image, the presence of government, law enforcement and oddly enough marketers. However, if you read the documents carefully you will see this “privacy” is only in relation to the data shared between you and a third party, it...
Google thinks the freedom of expression is most important value to uphold on the internet… We concluded in the end that it is impossible to provide benefits to internet users while observing this country’s law because the law does not fall in line...
In Germany, many Facebook offerings are breaking the law, Weichart said in a statememt: The Independent Center for Privacy Protection (ULD) in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein has demanded local websites to remove their Facebook...
Your Name, And The Law In short, the social media giants may soon not have any other option, as the law trumps their TOS. Their rules state that you should sign up using "the name your friends, family, or co-workers usually call you.
The basis for the appeal, as per the official filing, is that Ware's decision "addresses novel questions of law and applies them to new technologies in ways which reasonable judges could disagree. The court finds that plaintiffs plead facts...
Remember before publishing anything online make sure to carefully review copyright law for the country of origin, and your country. Try something funny like compiling crazy outdated laws from each state.
These bills would provide no new tax revenue collected by Amazon or others who sever their relationships with California-based advertisers," Paul Misener, Amazon's vice president for global public policy, says in a letter to Senator Runner, adding...
With the recent capture of one of the FBI's Most Wanted through the use of social media and other arrests that have been made with the help of online sources, could it be time for law enforcement to start hiring online search and social experts to...
The Performance Marketing Association challenged the constitutionality of the Illinois law taxing products sold by affiliate marketers residing in the state, filing a lawsuit claiming it violates federal law; as the California State Assembly...
Silicon Valley was built on the ability of individuals to use their knowledge and expertise to seek better employment opportunities, an idea recognized by both California law and public policy,” Aaron Zamost, a Google spokesman, said ina statement.
Last year a New Jersey judge ruled that a blogger was not covered by the state's shield law protecting unveiling sources. The debate about the legitimacy of news bloggers has been settled. ProPublica, a web-based independent investigative news...
In the case of Facebook, Zuckerberg's Law should state that social media connections double every six months. When does this start to happen and is there some kind of Moore's law to be discovered? Moore's law states that computer technology doubles...
