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Key voice on privacy issues loses congressional reelection bid while another joins the senate

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 3 2010

Representative Rick Boucher (D-VA), current head of the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet, lost his reelection bid yesterday to Republican Morgan Griffith, the Majority Leader of the Virginia House of Delegates

Supreme Court questions AT&T on privacy claims

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 21 2011

High court justices listening to arguments Wednesday in the Obama Administration's appeal of a lower court privacy ruling concerning AT&T appeared less than sympathetic to AT&T's claim that corporate entities may invoke the personal privacy provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in blocking disclosure of sensitive information provided to the FCC and other federal agencies

Upcoming cases in the United States Supreme Court’s 2010 term: Volume II

  • Larkin Hoffman
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 15 2011

The Supreme Court's 2010-2011 term began in October, and it is expected to conclude by the end of April

Two bills introduced on use of mobile-device-location data

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 20 2011

Two new bills propose to place limits on government and industry use of mobile users’ location data

EU political update

  • Clifford Chance LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • April 26 2011

The European Commission last week adopted a report on the Data Retention Directive, outlining the lessons learned since its adoption in 2006

Legislative outlook

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 20 2011

As reported in the June 13 edition, the House Manufacturing and Trade Subcommittee held a hearing on June 15, 2011, to consider consumer protection legislation

Court holds cell phones may not serve as big-brother-in-a-pocket

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 27 2011

Invoking concerns about an Orwellian state of constant government surveillance, a federal judge in New York ruled last month that authorities must establish probable cause and secure a warrant in order to obtain historical location data covering an extended period of time from cell-phone providers about a criminal suspect

Supreme Court rules against privacy rights of corporations

  • Herrick Feinstein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 29 2011

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously on March 1, 2011, that corporations do not have the same privacy rights as individuals when it comes to blocking requests for records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA

Ninth Circuit allows surveillance case to proceed against government, but not telecoms

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 7 2012

A law granting immunity to telecommunications companies that allegedly assisted the U.S. government in conducting warrantless surveillance on American citizens is constitutional, according to the Ninth Circuit

"White" and "green" text messages are seen (and not suppressed)

  • Day Pitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 3 2012

A legal search of the contents -- text messages, directories and call logs -- of a cellphone requires no more than the use of the generic terms "correspondence, address books and telephone directories" in a search warrant, according to a Fifth Circuit opinion

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