Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA)/Stored Communications Act (SCA)
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Court Authorizes U.S. Gov’t to Kill Zombies
Just two days ago on April 12, the United States Government executed an unprecedented (in...
Jennifer Granick
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DOJ Outlines Areas for Further Investigation in ECPA Reform Hearing
Yesterday, April 6, 2011, two government agencies’ testified in a hearing entitled “The Electronic Communications...
Elizabeth Banker
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District Court Finds Joinder of Thousands of BitTorrent Users for Purposes of Discovery to be Proper
As an update to our previous post regarding the United States Copyright Group (USCG) mass...
ZwillGen
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Wikileaks investigation produces novel ECPA standing decision
On Friday, March 11, the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia issued a...
Jennifer Granick
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Sixth Circuit Holds That Email is Protected by the Fourth Amendment: Government Needs a Search Warrant to Obtain Emails from ISPs
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a landmark opinion yesterday in the criminal appeal...
ZwillGen
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Gaos v. Google, New Class Action Suit Filed Regarding Use of Referral URLs
A class action lawsuit filed against Google on October 25th in the Northern District of...
Elizabeth Banker
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Recent Third Circuit Court of Appeals Opinion: In the Matter of the Application of the United States of America for an Order Directing a Provider of Electronic Communication Services to Disclose Records to the Government
On September 7, 2010, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion in a...
ZwillGen
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Settlement Proposed in Google Buzz Class Action Litigation
Last Friday, September 3, 2010, Plaintiffs and Class Counsel moved for preliminary approval of the...
ZwillGen
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Twitter Settles with the FTC
The Federal Trade Commission and Twitter have agreed to settle charges stemming from two security...
ZwillGen
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Supreme Court Addresses Privacy Rights in Employee Communications in City of Ontario v. Quon
Yesterday, the Supreme Court handed down its much anticipated opinion in City of Ontario, California...
Jacob Sommer
