Tag Archive for: Google
The E.U. Google Decision: Big Brother Gets to Play Favorites
The on-line world is abuzz today with news from Europe’s highest court that Google will have to start removing links to certain information that some judge or bureaucrat decides is irrelevant. Even if it’s true and lawfully posted,…
Catching Captain Hookah: How the Silk Road Mastermind Revealed Himself in a Chatroom
Last week, FBI officials caught the mastermind behind an underground e-commerce site called Silk Road, which has been called the “Amazon of illegal drugs.” Since its creation in 2011, the site took in $1.2 billion in revenue…
The Library’s Hidden Treasure: Librarians
When they’re stuck on a piece of research in my course on fact investigation, I often tell my law students that the loneliest people in the world are waiting to help them: reference librarians. That line came to mind this week after I…
Bare Minimum: How to Make Your Gmail Messages More Secure
Well, another day, another email hacking story. This one involves the Bush clan, with reports that a hacker who goes by the name Guccifer accessed private emails and photographs, telephone numbers and addresses sent between members of the Bush…
The Myth of Online Privacy
Cardozo Law School recently hosted a multi-disciplinary conference on privacy and the Internet, "Anonymity and Identity in the Information Age." Lawyers, computer scientists and public health advocates wrestled with the challenges of protecting…
Talk Isn’t Cheap Even When Offline
A quick reflection on the executive at Allstate, who according to the Wall Street Journal lost his job in part because of profanity-laced comments about a superior to colleagues in a bar. How did the Journal get the story? Not by crawling around…
Is Apple Changing Its Story on User Tracking?
Two weeks ago, Apple and Google were called to answer growing concerns over privacy practices before Senate lawmakers. Today, executives from both companies responded to questions in a Senate hearing, but did little to alleviate our fears of…
The Silence of the Communicators
Apple, Google and Amazon are in the communications business, but their leaders all need to take some courses at Hamburger University to learn how to communicate with their customers. Any trial lawyer or investigator will tell you that WHEN something…
Protecting Yourself from the Internet
Protecting Yourself from the Internet. It’s time to face it: the internet is watching you. Have you ever noticed that if you search for a product online or if your e-mail inbox has a purchase confirmation that the advertising on certain…
Erasing Your Past is Impossible
More publicity for Reputation.com in the New York Times Sunday Styles section, featuring lots of people worried about unflattering information about themselves on the web. How to get rid of it? It turns out you often can’t. Once something…
