Growth at Facebook has been unbelievable and not a surprise that its user rolls will get to 500 million, but last fall a childhood friend died, and a few months later I was taken aback after Facebook asked me to post on his wall. Since so many new Facebook users…
Continue Reading Facebook – 500 Million, But What Happens When Friends Die?
Purportedly Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave the original web designer 84% of the company and a New York Judge issued the designer’s TRO (Temporary Restraining Order) which has been challenged by Zuckerberg and Facebook. Paul Ceglia’s lawsuit alleges that he was paid $1,000 by Zuckerberg for 50% of the…
Continue Reading Web Developer Claims He Owns 84% of Facebook
At the same time Lady Gaga takes over the Social Media spotlight from the President, Prince announces that the Internet is nowhere and his next album will only be a CD. No surprise what Lady Gaga is doing since “Gaga’s Facebook fans organized “National Lady Gaga Day.” The accompanying Event had…
Continue Reading Lady Gaga Beats Obama to 10 Million Facebook Fans, Prince Goes Nowhere
Google plans to buy ITA Software who provides airline travel utilities to American, Continental, Hotwire, Kayak, Orbitz, Microsoft’s Bing, among other companies. Of course this purchase for $700 million will require federal scrutiny given the antitrust implications, but as my friend Erika Morphy reports “Google says it plans to honor…
Tweets a plenty were posted announcing that Wikipedia and LinkedIn were down, but one tweet wondered what would happen if Twitter also went down! We are so dependent on these Social Media tools that when these sites go down the communications also disappears….except probably text messages, phone calls, or even…
Continue Reading Recent Headlines Send Shockwaves – ‘Wikipedia and LinkedIn are Down’!
Without much public fanfare recently a Senate Committee unanimously approved the bill dubbed “Internet Kill Switch,” which among other things would allow the President to take over civilian networks in case of an emergency. The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee unanimously approved the Protecting Cyberspace as a…
Continue Reading President “Internet Kill Switch” – Good Idea?
President-Elect Obama’s Twitter account was hacked “offering his more than 150,000 followers a chance to win $500 in free gas.” Twitter settled the FTC’s charges that “that it deceived consumers and put their privacy at risk by failing to safeguard their personal information, marking the agency’s first such case against…
Continue Reading FTC Settlement – Twitter Barred for 20 Years From Misleading
Viacom lost its $1 billion lawsuit against Google and YouTube for alleged copyright infringement when a judge granted summary judgment. YouTube’s defense was that it used the “safe harbor” protection of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) where YouTube would remove allegedly infringing videos after being notified, and after three…
Continue Reading Google & YouTube Not Liable Copyright Infringement
The Ontario, CA Police Department (OPD) did not violate the 4th Amendment by reviewing text messages sent from a work pager. Apparently the OPD’s warrantless audit found Officer Quon had sent or received 456 messages, but only 57 were work-related. The OPD Computer Policy included the following provisions that the…
Continue Reading US Supreme Court Rules 9-0 – Employer Had Right to Text Messages
On Tuesday, June 15th I will speak on the “Social Media Impact on Law” at the Dallas Bar Association Franchise & Distribution Section meeting at noon at Belo Mansion. My speech will include the following topics:
