1. Is Internet Privacy Dead? Yes, Says Author/Law Professor Lori Andrews

    [Link: Lori Andrews Says Internet Privacy Is Dead] 

    Bloomberg’s Spencer Mazyck talks with Chicago-Kent College of Law professor Lori Andrews, who discusses the loss of online privacy in today’s digital age, how our internet activity is increasingly being used against us, and why we need a social media “Bill of Rights.” Choice lines from the wide-ranging interview:

    • “… if I over Gmail say to a friend ‘I’m getting a divorce’ or if I do a Google search for ‘old guitars’ and then  go to a credit card site, I might be offered a less good credit card because people getting divorces or who are in garage rock bands tend not to pay their bills.”

    • “Say you do a search for the side effects of a medication – it may not even be for you, you’re doing it for a friend or your grandmother – then you go to a life insurance site, you might not be able to get life insurance because you have looked for that information or you’ve looked at certain websites…

    • “[People] may not care [about the collection of online data] because they just don’t know that it might mean the difference between getting a job or not, getting a credit card or not, or keeping custody of your children or not…” 

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    Additional updates on this topic:

    • Criminal Court of New York City Holds That Tweets Are Public Information and Can Be Subpoenaed - Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP 

    • Federal Government Targets Privacy Violations by Social Media Companies - Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP 

    • EPIC Urges FTC to Develop Meaningful Privacy Protections for Mobile Services - Electronic Privacy Information Center 

    • Guess What? You Don’t Own Your Tweets - Lawyers.com 

    • Facebook to Require Mobile Software Application Privacy Policies - Kilpatrick Townsend 

    • You Are Not Safe Online! - Lawyers.com 

    • NAAG to Focus on Privacy; Vermont, Connecticut, Oklahoma Make E-Commerce Changes - BuckleySandler LLP 

    • Top Selling Mobile Educational App Developer Sued for COPPA Violations – Pillsbury 

    • Online Advertising Companies Agree To Bring Practices Into Compliance With OBA Principles After BBB Inquiry - Loeb & Loeb LLP 

    • EPIC to Commerce Department: Establish Privacy Rights - Electronic Privacy Information Center 

    • Report from Energized FTC Seminar on Online Advertising - Ifrah Law 

    • I Know What You Watched Last Summer - Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP 

    • Obama’s Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: Less Than Meets the Eye? - Ifrah Law 

    • Myspace Reaches Consent Agreement with FTC over Misrepresentations in Privacy Policy - Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 

    • Can Twitter Protect a User’s Information? - Cullen and Dykman 

    • Discovery of Facebook Content in Florida Cases - Christopher Hopkins 

    • FTC Fines Spokeo $800K In First Case of Selling Social Media Data for Employment Background Checks

    • Facebook Violated Users’ Right of Publicity, But You’ll ‘Like’ The Outcome

    • FTC Publishes Privacy Report

    • Privacy Law Roundup: “Bill of Rights,” Predictive Analytics, Mobile Applications, GPS Tracking, & More 

    • Data Privacy: A Look at Europe’s “Right to be Forgotten” and Other Protection Laws 

    • Social Media and the Law: Who Owns Your Twitter Acct? (And Other Updates) 

    • EPIC to FTC: More changes to protect children’s online privacy, please… 

    • The FTC Is Reading Privacy Policies (Even If You Aren’t)

    • Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act: FTC Proposes COPPA Rule Revisions 

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    Also watch:

    Did You Know Twitter Tracks You on Third-Party Websites?

    [Link: Did You Know Twitter Tracks You on Third-Party Websites?—InfoLawGroup’s Tanya Forsheit - LXBN]

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