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Divided Sixth Circuit okays cell phone GPS search
- Wiley Rein LLP
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- USA
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- September 13 2012
Whether the government may freely track individuals using GPS devices, unconstrained by Fourth Amendment search rules, is among the current privacy issues where there seems to be a lack of consensus among federal judges
Do lawyers have standing to challenge surveillance of client calls?
- Wiley Rein LLP
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- USA
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- June 7 2012
On May 21, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will review this fall a Second Circuit decision holding that lawyers do have standing to challenge a statute authorizing broad surveillance of their foreign clients
This year's election could alter the Supreme Court's privacy balance
- Wiley Rein LLP
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- USA
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- May 14 2012
Several recent privacy decisions indicate that there now is a rough 5-4 division among the Supreme Court Justices, where the slim majority favors narrowly construing both constitutional and statutory provisions in the face of citizen privacy claims
First Circuit decision opens the door for data breach suits
- Wiley Rein LLP
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- USA
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- November 8 2011
Businesses may wish to take special note of the First Circuit’s October 20 decision in Anderson v. Hannaford Brothers Co. (2011 U.S. App. Lexis 21239), because it could well open the door for class actions against companies that suffer data breaches
Privacy in focus - July 2011 - does the Supreme Court's Sorrell decision threaten privacy?
- Wiley Rein LLP
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- USA
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- July 14 2011
On June 23, as its 2010 term drew to a close, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its much-awaited decision in Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc. (No. 10-779), holding that Vermont's Act 80, prohibiting access to certain information on physicians' prescribing practices for use in marketing brand-name drugs, violated the First Amendment
California Supreme Court restricts businesses' collection of ZIP codes
- Wiley Rein LLP
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- USA
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- March 7 2011
A unanimous California Supreme Court has ruled that businesses are prohibited from requesting and recording customers' ZIP codes
U.S. court of appeals ruling protects personal information in computer files from government scrutiny
- Wiley Rein LLP
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- USA
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- October 16 2009
The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, in a unusual en banc decision, has applied the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures to rein in a federal government search of computer files containing the commingled medical records of persons as to whom there was probable cause and others as to whom the government had none
Fourth Circuit limits SCA statutory damages
- Wiley Rein LLP
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- USA
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- May 15 2009
The Stored Communications Act (SCA) authorizes criminal and private civil actions against a person who "intentionally accesses without authorization a facility through which an electronic communications service is provided" and obtains "access to a wire or electronic communication while it is in electronic storage"
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- Workarea - Information Technology
- Workarea - Litigation
- Firm Name - Wiley Rein LLP
- Jurisdiction - USA
- Author - Bruce L. McDonald