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Limiting Reverse Searches in the Stored Communications Act
Law enforcement increasingly conducts “reverse searches”—requests that ask online providers to search their massive databases not for information about a known suspect, but to identify unknown individuals based on location, conduct, or search queries. The most prominent examples are geofence warrants, which seek to identify all device users near a particular location during a specified window, and reverse keyword warrants, which seek to identify everyone who searched for a particular term.
Australia - Personal Injury - Case Summary: AAI Limited t/as GIO v Adnan [2024] NSWPICMP 89 (19 February 2024) - The importance of the breadth of evidence in a personal injury claim
Many people are injured in motor vehicle accidents. A claim for damages for pain & suffering depends on whether the degree of Whole Person Impairment is more than 10%. When there are disputes with an insurance company about the % level of impairment, Dispute Applications are then filed with the Personal Injury Commission. The Commission will arrange for the Claimant to be examined by an independent Medical Assessor. It is important that all relevant information is provided to the Assessor.
What to know before lodging a workers compensation claim for psychological injury at work
Workers' compensation claims arising out of psychological injuries sustained at work have seen a significant rise over the past decade. Please see link to State Insurance Regulatory Authority (SIRA) report here. If you have sustained a psychological injury at work, there are certain things you should do to assist in making your claim run as smoothly as possible. What are my obligations to the insurer?
Carpenter Should Replace Katz in Fourth Amendment Law
For more than 50 years, legal scholars, judges, attorneys, and law students have centered their analyses of the Fourth Amendment on the famous Katz test. It determines in most cases what a Fourth Amendment “search” is and, thereby, whether the amendment applies at all. The Katz test essentially asks whether an act of government surveillance has violated a person’s “reasonable expectation of privacy.” In practice, this standard is notoriously ambiguous and unhelpful.
Carpenter Should Replace Katz in Fourth Amendment Law
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With For more than 50 years, legal scholars, judges, attorneys, and law students have centered their analyses of the Fourth Amendment on the famous Katz test. It determines in most cases what a Fourth Amendment “search” is and, thereby, whether the amendment applies at all.
Outdated Ethics Rules May Be Stymieing the Federal Trade Commission’s Efforts to Keep Up with Big Tech
How does a hundred-year-old agency shift its resources and focus to grapple effectively with Big Tech and some of the biggest policy puzzles of a generation? The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has faced this challenge since the dotcom era. As it still scrambles to adjust, the FTC has received harsh criticism in recentyears for its approvals of ballooning tech mergers and its seeming inability to deter or avert privacy scandal after privacy scandal.
Outdated Ethics Rules May Be Stymieing the Federal Trade Commission’s Efforts to Keep Up with Big Tech
How does a hundred-year-old agency shift its resources and focus to grapple effectively with Big Tech and some of the biggest policy puzzles of a generation? The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has faced this challenge since the dotcom era. As it still scrambles to adjust, the FTC has received harsh criticism in recentyears for its approvals of ballooning tech mergers and its seeming inability to deter or avert privacy scandal after privacy scandal.
Covid-19 claims resulting from the death of a worker or aged care resident
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NSW workers compensation & COVID-19
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The 'Re-Identification' of Governor William Weld's Medical Information: A Critical Re-Examination of Health Data Identification Risks and Privacy Protections, Then and Now
19 Pages Posted: 4 Jun 2012 Last revised: 3 Sep 2015 Date Written: July 2012 Abstract The 1997 re-identification of Massachusetts Governor William Weld’s medical data within an insurance data set which had been stripped of direct identifiers has had a profound impact on the development of de-identification provisions within the 2003 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule.
Don’t Build a Database of Ruin
Many businesses today find themselves locked in an arms race with competitors to see who can convert customer secrets into the most pennies. To try to win, they are building perfect digital dossiers, to use a phrase coined by Daniel Solove, massive data stores containing hundreds, if not thousands or tens of thousands, of facts about every member of our society. In my work, I’ve argued that these databases will grow to connect every individual to at least one closely guarded secret.
A User's Guide to the Stored Communications Act, and a Legislator's Guide to Amending it
36 Pages Posted: 5 Aug 2003 Last revised: 6 Jul 2016 Abstract Americans care deeply about their Internet privacy. But if they want to know how federal law protects the privacy of their stored Internet communications, they'll quickly learn that it's surprisingly difficult to figure out.
We Couldn’t Kill the Internet If We Tried
There are many reasons people oppose government regulation of the various bits of software, hardware, and social glue that we call the internet. I write to respond to only one of these: the fear that regulation will have spillover effects and unintended consequences. Regardless of which side one takes in any number of debates about the regulation of the internet, one background view seems to be broadly held: law possesses the power to destroy the internet as we know it.
The Radical Supreme Court Travel Ban Opinion-But why it might not apply to other immigrants’ rights cases
In writing the opinion for the Supreme Court in the travel ban case, Chief Justice John Roberts had to decide what to do with Donald Trump’s many statements laying bare his discriminatory reasons for adopting the executive order. Although other analysts say that the Court “balanced” or engaged in “weighing” the president’s comments against the putative national security reasons for the policy, we don’t see it that way.
Trump v Hawaii: Giving Pretext a Pass
There are plenty of reasons to be concerned about the Supreme Court’s majority opinion in Trump v. Hawaii, which upheld the president’s proclamation banning travel to the U.S. by people from several majority-Muslim countries. Top among them is that the opinion, while purporting to repudiate Korematsu v.
The Broad Reach of Carpenter v. United States
Carpenter v. United States is an inflection point in the history of the Fourth Amendment. From now on, we’ll be talking about what the Fourth Amendment means in pre-Carpenter and post-Carpenter terms. It will be seen as being as important as Olmstead and Katz in the overall arc of technological privacy.
The Microsoft Design Decisions That Caused this Mess
I need not spend much space on the merits of United States v. Microsoft, the case about the extraterritoriality of email search warrants that the Supreme Court will decide this term, because Judge Lynch of the Second Circuit, in his concurring opinion in the court below, said almost everything I would have said.
Paul Ohm: Internet bill could give FBI massive power
Many are outraged about congressional efforts to eviscerate Internet privacy regulations set by the Federal Communications Commission under President Barack Obama.
Marching toward a 'Database of Ruin' | Herald Sun
Many are outraged about congressional efforts to eviscerate Internet privacy regulations set by the Federal Communications Commission under President Barack Obama.
Law, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality
Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) are going to be big -- not just for gaming but for work, for social life, and for evaluating and buying real-world products. Like many big technological advances, they will in some ways challenge legal doctrine.
Mr. Robot Goes to Washington
If you are a smart techie hoping to become a bona fide technology policy expert, come work for me at Georgetown Law, in Washington DC. I am hiring a technologist to serve as my full-time research fellow. In this job you will: Conduct cutting-edge research at the intersection of law, technology, and policy, with a special focus on information privacy law. Meet the key people who shape technology policy at the federal, state, and international levels.
Chilling Effects: Online Surveillance and Wikipedia Use
This article discusses the results of the first empirical study providing evidence of regulatory “chilling effects” of Wikipedia users associated with online government surveillance. The study explores how traffic to Wikipedia articles on topics that raise privacy concerns for Wikipedia users decreased after the widespread publicity about NSA/PRISM surveillance revelations in June 2013.
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