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Showing posts with label data protection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label data protection. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Hospitals may track patients online and sell their data without violating state wiretap law, high court rules

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Mike MacKenzie (via Flickr ) CC BY 2.0 State wiretap law does not prevent hospitals from tracking patients on the web and selling their dat...
Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Law class visits Constitutional Court of Portugal

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Law students and Dean Sam Panarella (left) visit the Constitutional Court. © RJ Peltz-Steele Since last week, ten talented U.S. law studen...
Monday, January 29, 2024

Consumers turn tables against corporate defense in compelled arbitration of information privacy claims

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Image via www.vpnsrus.com by Mike MacKenzie CC BY 2.0 Consumer plaintiffs turned the usual tables on corporate defense in the fall when a ...
Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Plaintiff drops privacy suit that stretched to claim against UMass Medical in nationwide data breach

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UMass Chan Medical School Mass. Office of Travel & Tourism via Flickr CC BY-ND 2.0 Until six days ago, the University of Massachusetts ...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Mass., EU courts wrestle with requisite harm in defamation, data protection cases

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The vexing problem of proof of damages in defamation and privacy has turned up recently in the Massachusetts Court of Appeals and the Court ...
Saturday, April 22, 2023

Lissens presents EU data protection, IoT research

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Sylvia Lissens, a Ph.D. student and teaching assistant at the KU Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies in Belgium, presented part of h...
Monday, July 4, 2022

Judge delays decision again on Mass. right to repair, cites need to study SCOTUS climate change ruling

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pix4free Last week, in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency , the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a major blow to federal regulators on...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Hospital BAC disclosure prompts tort privacy claims

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Photo by Marco Verch ( CC BY 2.0 ) The federal district court in Montana in December refused to dismiss an informational privacy claim ag...
Saturday, January 1, 2022

Code might inevitably regulate journalism in digital age

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The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office is working on a "journalism code of practice" to legislate against defamation and ...
Monday, November 1, 2021

Justices test Harvard property claims, as civil rights attorney pleads passionately for return of slave images

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Lanier's story in a 2020 short by Connecticut Public This morning the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court heard oral arguments in the c...
Wednesday, October 27, 2021

In parting meditation on pub gossip, Czech judge peels onion on privacy limits, judicial transparency

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Does GDPR pertain to pub buzz?, AG Bobek asks. ( Skeptics in the Pub Oslo (2015) by Dizzi90 CC BY-SA 4.0 ) Earlier this month, Czech judge ...
Sunday, June 27, 2021

Disputed allegations in malicious prosecution suits against Apple raise data protection issues

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Apple Store Osaka ( Sébastien Bertrand CC BY 2.0 ) A case of identity theft, now the subject of lawsuits against Apple and a security contr...