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In the courts

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 9 2012

On July 3, 2012, a New York Criminal Court Judge ruled that Twitter must produce tweets and user information about a criminal defendant, an Occupy Wall Street protester, that were subpoenaed by the District Attorney

In the courts

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 7 2011

On March 1, 2011, the United States Supreme Court reversed the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to hold that the FCC was correct in refusing the apply the "personal privacy" exemption of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to AT&T

In the courts

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 21 2011

On February 15, 2011, a putative class action lawsuit was filed in the federal district court for the Northern District of California against Apple and a host of other defendants, including application developers and various recipients of the plaintiffs' confidential data, including the New York Times, NPR, WebMD, Groupon, Pandora, and Yelp

In the courts

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 24 2011

On January 19, 2011, the US Supreme Court heard oral argument in FCC v. AT&T, which arises out of AT&T’s claim that the FCC could withhold documents otherwise responsive to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on the ground that AT&T qualifies for FOIA’s “personal privacy” exemption

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) developments

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 8 2010

On November 4, 2010, the FTC announced the appointment of Edward W. Felten, Ph.D., as the agency’s first Chief Technologist

Telecom privacy news

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 7 2010

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr., D-Mich., recently sent letters to Facebook, Inc. and Google, Inc. in connection with recent reports of privacy-related issues involving the two companies

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