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• Virtual Legal Chickens Come Home To Roost In Real Courts

  Netizens spend more and more time living their lives in online virtual worlds these days. Participants pursue their virtual lives through avatars, the visual representations of people in virtual worlds. While most virtual world interactions remain virtual, taking place entirely in fictitious realms, virtual disputes are increasingly landing in real courts right here on terra firma.

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• Judge Dismisses Would-be Governor’s Suit Against Ask.com and Yahoo!

  A perennial New York political candidate recently lost a lawsuit brought against two websites alleging that they interfered with his "Master Election Plan." William Murawski claimed that Ask.com and Yahoo! had defamed him and violated his right to free speech through their actions, but a judge for the District Court for the Southern District of New York thought otherwise.

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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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