privacy

Utah Bill Becomes Law: 72-Hour Wait For Abortion

March 22, 2012 15:28

Utah’s governor signed a bill into law requiring a 72-hour waiting period for women seeking an abortion, according to Yahoo News, although that a similar mandate was rejected recently in a South Dakota federal court. The Republican governor Gary Herbert’s decision is expected to meet...

Bankruptcy Highlights Necessity of Preventing Data Breaches

Daniel Schwartz
March 22, 2012 13:18

With all the focus lately on social media, it’s easy for forget that there are other laws and issues that remain vitally important to employers. One of them is the need for employees to understand the importance of compliance with data privacy laws.  I talked in 2008 about a new law in...

Google Problems? BrandYourself Helps You Control Search Results Of Your Name

March 22, 2012 10:39

Original Article This all sounds good, but the same problem exists. What if 15 people all have the same name, and they all use this service? They will all be fighting on who gets top spot. So it may be good for some, but not everyone, IMO. 03/22/2012 Peter Kistler used to have a Google...

Penalty for webcam spying

Walter Olson
March 22, 2012 04:04

As Radley Balko notes, it seems to vary rather widely depending on whether the wrongdoer is a student or an educator. Tags: Pennsylvania, privacy, schools Related posts School webcams: the division of the spoils (9) Yet more on privacy/disability laws and Seung Hui Cho (2) Texting Fountain...

SOPA replacement uses child porn as excuse to spy on 99.7 percent of Americans

March 22, 2012 01:36

View the video here Video Description: The SOPA and PIPA bills that went down in flames earlier this year for their unbearable intrusiveness, used content piracy as an excuse to give the government powerful tools with which to censor Internet content. For 2012 the primary author of those bills...