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Showing posts with label privacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label privacy. 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...
Thursday, September 5, 2024

In 'Baywatch' case, court ponders discovery rule for models' tort claims over ads posted on Facebook

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Models suing an adult entertainment club occasioned the high court of Massachusetts to ponder the problem of social media and the statute of...
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Free torts textbook ready for academic year 2024-25

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TORTZ: A Study of American Tort Law is complete and revised for the coming academic year 2024-25. The two-volume textbook is posted for fr...
Monday, March 11, 2024

Book supports legal privilege for undercover reporting

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Truth and Transparency , a recent book by Professors Alan K. Chen and Justin Marceau , is a comprehensive and gratifying tour of the histor...
Thursday, March 7, 2024

UK anti-SLAPP bill takes fire

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The United Kingdom has an anti-SLAPP bill on the table, and lawyer Gideon Benaim has cataloged objections. In broad strokes, the bill foll...
Thursday, February 1, 2024

Naming rape suspects may draw criminal charges for journalists under Northern Ireland privacy law

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Bernard Goldbach via Flickr CC BY 2.0 In Northern Ireland, it's a crime for a journalist to identify a rape suspect. The relevant provi...
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 ...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

TORTZ volume 2 unpacks duty, causation, damages, introduces nuisance, defamation, privacy

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Tortz volume 2 is now available for affordable purchase from Lulu.com and for free PDF download from SSRN . Tortz volume 2 follows up vol...
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, January 17, 2024

Police reform shines light on disciplinary records

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CC0 Pixabay via picryl A favorable reform to follow the police protest movement of recent years, stemming in particular from the killing of...
Monday, May 22, 2023

DA cannot shield officer, EMT identities from state FOIA disclosure, court rules in fatal police shooting

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A Massachusetts Superior Court in March ordered the district attorney to release investigative records to the family of a man killed by poli...