To better understand issues that are not always easily answerable, sometimes we should be forced to examine the alternative opposing viewpoint no matter how benign or absurd. While it would seem hard to defend the NSA’s practice of mass collecting call detail records of non-suspect Americans as not violating the 4th Amendment rights under the […]
Negotiations in the ongoing debate over how internet service companies, like Facebook, Inc., and Google, Inc., will be able to use personal information to track the browsing habits of its patrons have apparently hit a stalemate. Unless mediators between the Obama Administration, privacy advocate groups, and Internet industry firms can come to some sort of amiable […]
Ms. Patricia Ross, head of the mobile technology unit at the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), was quoted last week in The New York Times as urging mobile technology firms, who build applications for smartphones, to build security into their products from the beginning of development, not after a “privacy debacle” has occured. The direct message to the […]
The complaint filed against Facebook, Inc., by the U.S. government alleged that the social network’s 2009 Privacy Policy had “caused harm to users, including, but not limited to, threats to their health and safety, and unauthorized revelation of their affiliations [e.g. political views, sexual orientation, or business relationships].” The prickly wording by the Federal Trade […]
It appears that the Commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) will be voting sometime within the next couple of weeks to approve a settlement between Facebook and the U.S. government over charges that the social media giant was unfair and deceptive in how it used customer personal information. The Wall Street Journal reported that the […]
The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) recently concluded that employers may not discipline or terminate an employee for engaging in some forms of communication on social media sites, like Facebook and Twitter. The reasoning behind this ruling is that if the employee is engaged in “protected concerted activity” whereby they are discussing terms and conditions […]