If you devote a sizable chunk of your time to writing about surveillance, you see grim predictions about "the end of privacy" bandied about with a numbing regularity—hell, I've got at least two books by that title on my shelf right now. Which may be why it took me a while to get around to Yale...

Judge Amy Reynolds Hay threw the case out: While it is easy to imagine that many whose property appears on Google's virtual maps resent the privacy implications, it is hard to believe that any - other than the most exquisitely sensitive - would suffer shame or humiliation.... The plaintiffs' failure...

For those who have not already read elsewhere, North Dakota’s legislative House today passed a bill that would grant personhood, and the rights that go with it, to fertilized eggs. A measure approved by the North Dakota House gives a fertilized human egg the legal rights of a human being, a st...

Facebook has been back in the news again (in a not-so-positive light) for recent changes to their terms of service. Specifically, the new terms no longer allow for a user to remove his or her Content and revoke Facebook’s license, prompting Consumerist headline, "Facebook: We can do anything ...

If the Wordle and other coverage isn’t enough, here’s Sun editor, Rebekah Wade’s Hugh Cudlipp speech in full [note: may have differed very slightly in actual delivery]: The challenging future of national and regional newspapers is now the staple diet of media commentators. If you h...

Yesterday, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada tabled her annual report on the Privacy Act. While she came down hard on a number of federal bodies such as the passport office, one aspect of the report should be of interest to lawyers generally. The Commissioner reports on a whole range of complaints ...

I Don't Believe in Imaginary land brings us an anatomy of several organizations' goals for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which we've discussed previously. In particular, he points out the anti-privacy views of the trade ms-dos Alliance: "While the ACTA itself is not public, the US Trade d...

As the temperatures rise in a typical Washington summer, so grows the pressure on some online advertising firms.  Yesterday the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Telecommunications and the Internet Subcommittee held a hearing on the questionable methods for advertising currently being...

So far the federal government has done little to respond to the historic floods in eastern Iowa which are among the worst in recorded history. In order to maintain tyranny in the flooded areas, local governments have had to step up to meet the challenge. Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff ...

Jennifer Stoddart, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, tabled her 2007 Annual Report in Parliament yesterday: “The year 2007 will no doubt be remembered in the privacy world as the year of the data breach.” “The size of some of the data spills reported around the globe was staggeri...