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Even If It Enrages Your Boss, Social Net Speech Is Protected
In it’s 2nd social media report, the National Labor Relations Board aims to protect employees’ rights to speech. The memo “covers 14 cases, half of which involve questions about employer social media...
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Proposed Ohio Law Would Officially Allow Snooping on Kids’ Text Messages,...
Writing on Slate, Ryan Gallagher reports on an Ohio representative’s bill that would enable adults to monitor their children’s digital communication. “Rep. Brian Hill, R-Zanesville, is pushing to amend...
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Google Concedes That Drive-by Prying Violated Privacy
The New York Times/Karen Bleier/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images David Streitfeld reports on the New York Times: Google on Tuesday acknowledged to state officials that it had violated people’s...
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Google Testifies To Congress Calling For Email Privacy
Writing on The Verge, Carl Franzen reports that Google’s legal director, Richard Salgado, will testify in front of a subcommittee in the House of Representatives. Salgado will argue for a legislative...
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The FBI And Gmail Spying Powers
“It’s no secret that under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the feds can easily obtain archive copies of emails. When it comes to spying on emails or Gchat in real time, however, it’s a...
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Updating an E-Mail Law From the Last Century
Somini Sengupta reports in the New York Times The current statute requires a warrant for e-mails that are less than six months old. But it lets the authorities gain access to older communications — or...
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After Petition Against CISPA, Obama Responds
Responding to a petition signed by over 100,000 people on the White House’s We The People website, the Obama Administration has issued clarifying remarks on its stance towards CISPA. The President does...
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LinkedIn And The Invisible Employment Screen
My new piece at The New Inquiry: Far from a buggy nuisance, this kind of openness is LinkedIn’s hallmark feature. As BuzzFeed’s listicles overlord Ben Smith chirped, “LinkedIn’s stalker problem is not...
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Navigating Homosex
“Even if the internet helps men find sex with men outside the gay identity, they’re still not safe from the heterosexual regime,” writes Huw Lemmey in The New Inquiry.
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Do Not Track
Brian Fung of the Washington Post’s Switch blog writes on the state of privacy in web browsing and the policy proposal known as Do Not Track. So where do the Do Not Track negotiations go from here? In...
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