Navigating Facebook’s Ocean of Personal Data
Technology Review, an excellent journal published by MIT, has an article in its July/August 2012 edition examining Facebook’s growing use of the social sciences to analyze user behavior. Technology...
View ArticleFive Security Apps for Android
Android-based smartphones have found a loyal following among lawyers. Among smartphone-using respondents to the 2012 Legal Technology Survey Report, more than 18% reported using an Android smartphone....
View ArticleEncryption: A Guide for Lawyers
Attorneys have an obligation to protect their client’s data from unauthorized access, and there are few methods of protection more effective than encryption. When communicating over the Internet on...
View ArticleTech Mysteries: How Did My Computer Know …?
We’ve all had the how did it know?! moment when using technology. Perhaps you opened a restaurant review website and it listed restaurants near your office without asking for an address. Or maybe you...
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Quick Tip: Your Facebook Profile Through Another’s Eyes
Navigating Facebook’s privacy settings and friend lists can be a challenge. Whether you’re looking for clients, networking with your peers, or simply staying in touch with friends and relatives, it’s...
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New Facebook Privacy Features
If you’re a Facebook user, you may have noticed some new icons that have begun appearing in the Facebook navigation bar. To the right of the “Home” link at the upper right corner of the navigation bar,...
View ArticleFacebook Graph Search and Privacy
Facebook has been steadily making changes to privacy and security controls, including changes made to app permissions, untagging and removing photos, and adding privacy shortcuts in 2012. In March...
View ArticleWhat Should Lawyers Know About Information Governance?
In this edition of Digital Detectives hosts Sharon D. Nelson and John W. Simek invite Jason R. Baron, former director of litigation at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration to discuss...
View ArticlePrivacy Implications of the FBI’s Facial Recognition Database
The focus has been on the National Security Agency and its sweeping monitoring and collection of communications. PBS Frontline did a two-part series, and has followed that up with posts on a secret,...
View ArticlePrivacy and the Pendulum
According to Wikipedia, a pendulum “is a weight suspended from a pivot so that it can swing freely. When a pendulum is displaced sideways from its resting equilibrium position, it is subject to a...
View ArticleIs Privacy a Thing? Above the Law Answered Yes
Above the Law’s Converge Conference this past March provided a forum for attorneys, social media gurus, C-suiters, and concerned citizens to take part in the ongoing discussions and arguments...
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3 Ways to Optimize Data Privacy and Protection in the Digital Age
Privacy breaches occur every day, and firms of all sizes are at risk. It only takes a single breach to jeopardize your brand, your company reputation, customer loyalty, and your bottom line. What...
View ArticleDrones and the Fight for Privacy
Drone technology has developed rapidly over the last few years, and prices for consumer drones have continued to drop. This enables new enthusiasts to be able to purchase and use drones for a variety...
View ArticleAvoiding Personal Damage from a Data Breach
Technology makes life easier, there is no doubt. Everything from ordering your groceries to registering for college can be done online these days. To enroll in college, you need to enter all your...
View ArticleRaising a Digital Defense
Amid the barrage of recent data breaches, an increasing number of corporations are demanding that their law firms demonstrate they have the safeguards in place to protect their crown jewel: the...
View ArticleWhen Private is Not Private: Privacy Expectations in the Brave New World
Privacy as we knew it in the past is no longer feasible… How we conventionally think of privacy is dead. —Margo Seltzer, Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University You have zero privacy anyway....
View ArticleYour Cell Phone GPS is Tracking Your Every Move
One of the best parts about litigation is that, with each new case, I learn about a new and different industry. To effectively proceed with the case, it’s incumbent upon the attorneys to learn as much...
View ArticleThe Tricky Way Tech Can Cause Legal Problems for Health Care Professionals
Technical advances have changed medicine in ways we couldn’t have imagined even 20 years ago. We have robots that can assist with surgery, lasers that can destroy tumors without ever opening the skin,...
View ArticleThe “Right to be Forgotten” in an Era of Instant Notoriety
Law & Order episodes start this way. In August, a pedestrian in Manhattan’s East Village noted a driver sitting inside a parked car. The driver was still there two days later. Someone called 911....
View ArticleClicking Away Your Privacy and More
Some have used the old joke about the check being in the mail to equate the biggest lie on the internet as agreeing to the terms and conditions. We are all guilty of scrolling quickly to the bottom of...
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