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• Privacy Hits Center Stage

  A decade ago, long before the Internet was a robust commercial medium, I started writing about online privacy issues. At the time, legal colleagues told me that while the issues were interesting from academic standpoint, they had no real world application. I explained that there would come a time when good privacy meant good business, and bad privacy meant horrible business. That time has arrived.
  

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• Behavioral Advertising: How To Get It Right?

  Internet users tend to desire customized experiences, whereby content that is relevant to their particular interests is brought easily to their attention. Yet, Internet users have concerns about the revelation of their private information.

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• Law Firm, Internet Archive Named in Copyright Suit

  An Internet archive site and a Philadelphia-area law firm have been named in a lawsuit filed by a health care company that claims the defendants illegally obtained access to old versions of its Web pages during discovery in a separate civil case.

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• Whoa: Confidential Data Really Is At Risk!

  We all have been hearing and reading about how confidential data can be at risk. Well, a brand new U.S. survey by the Ponemon Institute, sponsored by Vontu, and exclusively provided first to your author, really drives this point home.

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• Business Lessons from AOL’s Search Data Mishap

  Recently, America Online voluntarily released three months of search queries by nearly 700,000 AOL users for educational and research purposes. For a short time, this data, consisting of queries, identification numbers, time of query and ClickURLs, was posted on a public portion of AOL's site. It has since been reposted, analyzed, and discussed on many Internet sites.

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• Computer Security Breaches Impact The Bottom Line

  The impact of computer security breaches is not hypothetical. When such a breach occurs, the financial consequences are real and can be immediate. Thus, it is better to be penny-wise rather than pound-foolish, and companies would be smart on the front-end to take steps to prevent breaches from occurring.

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• Interview: Law Firm Director of Information Systems Chuck Linebaugh

  Interview With Technology-Focused Law Firm Director of Information Systems Chuck Linebaugh.  

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• Driving to the FRCP 26(f) Conference: Use a Map, Ask for Directions or Fly Blind?

  Pleading ignorance, real or feigned, about the details around electronically stored information (ESI) relevant to a matter can lead to (and has in many recent cases) the 3 S's of e-discovery - Spoliation, followed by "I'm Sorry," and ending in Sanctions.

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• Ninth Circuit OKs Border Searches of Laptops

  The Ninth Circuit, in a decision announced this summer, has approved forensic searches of laptop computers at the border, even when the laptop's owner spent no time outside the airport in the foreign country and was under no suspicion of possessing foreign contraband.

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• Appellate Courts Refine Computer Search Rules

  Following on the heels of a workplace computer search ruling last August, the Ninth Circuit has again waded into the rapidly expanding pool of Fourth Amendment law concerning computer searches. It is joined by the Tenth Circuit, which in April handed down an interesting ruling regarding the search of personally-owned computers present at a workplace.

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