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No Fourth Amendment violation in ISP scanning of user e-mail, and reporting of suspected child pornography in compliance with law

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 29 2010

An Internet service provider that scanned user e-mail in order to screen out images containing child pornography, and reported suspected images in compliance with federal law, was not acting as an agent of law enforcement for Fourth Amendment purposes, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled

Assent to newspaper’s online privacy policy did not constitute waiver of right to anonymous speech

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 14 2010

An anonymous commenter's assent to a newspaper's online privacy policy did not constitute a waiver of the commenter's right to anonymous speech, a district court ruled

ECPA not applicable to ISP's alleged disclosure of communications to foreign government

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 14 2010

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act does not apply to the actions of an ISP that allegedly revealed subscribers' personal information and communications to a foreign government, where the acts of disclosure and interception took place in a foreign country, a district court ruled

EU privacy agency issues opinion on online behavioral advertising

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • July 29 2010

The European Union's Article 29 Data Protection Working Party has issued an opinion clarifying the applicability of the EU privacy framework to online behavioral advertising

Internet subscriber lacks privacy interest in isp account information sought by plaintiff in copyright infringement action

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 29 2010

An Internet service subscriber lacks a privacy interest in account information sought in a subpoena served upon the subscriber's Internet service provider, a district court ruled

Web site that created and delivered unverified checks at direction of users violated FTC act

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 29 2010

A company that operated a Web site that created and delivered unverified checks at the direction of users violated the unfair practices provisions of the Federal Trade Commission Act, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled

No Fourth Amendment violation in government administrative subpoena to ISP for subscriber information

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 29 2010

An administrative subpoena served upon a defendant's Internet service provider to obtain his subscriber information did not violate his Fourth Amendment rights, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled, because the defendant had no reasonable expection of privacy in his subscriber information

Third-party civil discovery subpoena to web mail and social networking providers unenforceable under Stored Communications Act

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 29 2010

A third-party civil discovery subpoena issued to providers of Web mail services and social networking services is unenforceable under the Stored Communications Act, a district court ruled

Stored Communications Act bars civil discovery subpoena to e-mail service provider, absent consent of account holder

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 11 2011

The federal Stored Communications Act bars the enforcement of a subpoena directed to an e-mail service provider to obtain the contents of an account-holder's e-mails, absent the consent of the account holder, a district court ruled

New York attorneys may access public social networking profiles for litigation purposes

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 11 2011

Attorneys may access publicly available profile pages on social networking sites in order to obtain evidence and impeachment material for use in litigation, the New York State Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics opined