Article 1: Austrian Group Plans Court Challenge to Facebook's Privacy Policies
Author: Kevin J. O'Brien
Date: December 4th
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/05/technology/austrian-group-plans-court-challenge-to-facebooks-privacy-policies.html?ref=technology&_r=0
Article 2: Student group to go to court over Facebook Privacy Policy
Author: Reuters
Date: December 4th
Link: http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2012/12/04/student-group-to-go-to-court-over-facebook-privacy-policy/
Article 3: Student group take Facebook privacy gripes to court
Author:
Date: December 4th
Link: http://news.yahoo.com/student-group-plans-sue-facebook-ireland-071853454--sector.html
Articles 1,2 and 3 are both reported on the same day.
Article 2, reported by Foxbusiness is the shortest story on here.
Article 1 goes into how Facebook is collecting and retaining data as well as using facial recognition to to tie in whose data it is.
Article 3 explains how Facebook takes several months to give people the data facebook has collected on them
Article 3 goes on to state that the group believes this will be a landmark case for the data protection law
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Article #5
Title: Courts Divided Over Searches of Cellphones
Author: Somini Sengupta
Date: November 25, 2012
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/technology/legality-of-warrantless-cellphone-searches-goes-to-courts-and-legislatures.html?ref=technology
Summary: Judges and law makers are wondering if officers will require a search warrant to view someone's cellphone records. And since the Senate committee is considering changing the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 law. As technology continues to advance the law is being left behind law makers and courts have to consider what information is private and what is owned by the phone company.
Relevance: This article is abcout the governments ability to view data that is personal to the private citizen. If the government is allowed to view anyone's private information without a warrant it can disable the rights of citizens.
Quote: "A proposed amendment would require the police to obtain a warrant to search e-mail, no matter how old it was, updating a provision that currently allows warrant-less searches of e-mails more than 180 days old."
Author: Somini Sengupta
Date: November 25, 2012
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/technology/legality-of-warrantless-cellphone-searches-goes-to-courts-and-legislatures.html?ref=technology
Summary: Judges and law makers are wondering if officers will require a search warrant to view someone's cellphone records. And since the Senate committee is considering changing the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 law. As technology continues to advance the law is being left behind law makers and courts have to consider what information is private and what is owned by the phone company.
Relevance: This article is abcout the governments ability to view data that is personal to the private citizen. If the government is allowed to view anyone's private information without a warrant it can disable the rights of citizens.
Quote: "A proposed amendment would require the police to obtain a warrant to search e-mail, no matter how old it was, updating a provision that currently allows warrant-less searches of e-mails more than 180 days old."
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