Mashable reports that Zeta Interactive released its Top 10 most buzzed Social Network list and Craigslist, Friendster, MySpace all dropped out of the Top 10 from 2009! This is a fascinating list:
As Social Media evolves this list will change, but it’s interesting that Google Buzz in #10 given its…
Continue Reading YouTube Top 2010 Buzzed Site- Facebook is #5
A recent NY Times report is critical of the daily use of the military’s use social security numbers (SSN)and birthdates, and how poorly Personal Identifiable Information (PII) is managed. Army intelligence officer turned West Point professor Lt. Col. Gregory Conti co-authored a report entitled “The Military’s Cultural Disregard for…
Continue Reading Identity Theft for the US Military Requires an Immediate Fix
Please join the webcast about Social Media Use with my good friends Michelle Cheng, Yvonne Gierczyk-Skasko, and me sponsor by the ALI-ABA (American Law Institute – American Bar Association) which be live on December 7, 2010 at 12:30pm CST. Michelle, Yvonne, and I will discuss our experiences with Facebook…
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Hitwise recently reported that 1 in every 4 pageviews in the US is on Facebook, and also incredible is Facebook’s claim that people spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook. Astonishing growth made even more amazing by realizing that the second place, and far behind Facebook, is…
Continue Reading Facebook Now Accounts for 25% of All U.S. Pageviews
Last week I posted a guest blog on Karl Bayer’s Blog about Dispute Resolution concerning Michael Geigerman’s ADR program at Washington University School of Law on October 29, 2100.
Michael Geigerman was the Moderator for a half day seminar at the Washington University School of Law regarding complexities created by eDiscovery and…
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) issued its second annual privacy report card with lower grades of “C for consumer data protection efforts and a D on civil liberties.” Mark Rotenberg, executive director of EPIC said "Our bottom-line assessment is that with respect to privacy, things are getting worse.” The…
Google settled a dispute about rejecting ads with the French Competition Authority including a 3 month notification period for the future when rejecting ads. Navx bought ads from Google to help drivers avoid speeding tickets by providing “online maps pinpointing the location of radar and camera systems the authorities use…
Let’s see a show of hands- do you read Terms of Service? Privacy Policies? Or Click Agreements? I routinely ask audiences this question and rarely do I ever get any hands raised. My recent Technology Law column in eCommerce Times entitled “Who Reads Terms of Service, Privacy Policies or…
The US Constitution protects the disclosure of what reading and video materials citizens read and view, in spite of the North Carolina Department of Revenue’s best efforts. US District Judge Marsha Pechman granted Amazon’s summary judgment that precludes disclosure of Amazon’s “customers’ names, addresses or any other personal information.&rdquo…
Continue Reading Sales Tax Dispute – Amazon Relies on the First Amendment
Google will not be accused of copyright infringement by posting the Dead Sea Scrolls unlike the current litigation about Google’s Books Library Project where Google is scanning millions of books to be freely available. Although the litigation continues, settlement looms on the horizon but the date for claims to be…
Continue Reading Google to Post the Dead Sea Scrolls – Copyright Infringement Claims Unlikely
