Proskauer Rose LLP | USA | 11 Jan 2011
E-mails that were sent to e-mail accounts connected to a domain name that was transferred pursuant to a settlement agreement, and that were read by the new domain name owner, were not "intercepted" within the meaning of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, a district court ruled.
Proskauer Rose LLP | USA | 11 Jan 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.
Proskauer Rose LLP | USA | 11 Jan 2011
A Web site operator could not enforce limitations on access set forth in its Terms of Use, where the ToU were not displayed on the site in a way in which a reasonable user could be expected to notice them, a district court ruled.
Proskauer Rose LLP | USA | 11 Jan 2011
An online business review site is not liable for alleged defamatory comments posted by a third party user of the site, a New York trial court ruled.
Proskauer Rose LLP | USA | 30 Sep 2010
A Virginia statute prohibiting the public disclosure of Social Security Numbers is unconstitutional as applied to a privacy advocate who posted publicly available land records containing unredacted Social Security Numbers as part of a privacy lobbying effort, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled.
Proskauer Rose LLP | USA | 30 Sep 2010
The judge presiding over the bankruptcy proceeding of the operator of a Web site and magazine aimed at gay teens has approved a settlement allowing the destruction of personal information of users rather than a sale to creditors as part of the bankruptcy estate.
Proskauer Rose LLP | USA | 29 Jul 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.
Proskauer Rose LLP | USA | 29 Jul 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.
Proskauer Rose LLP | USA | 29 Jul 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.
Proskauer Rose LLP | USA | 29 Jul 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.