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Category: Privacy

google analytics
Posted on September 8, 2022September 8, 2022 Privacy

The New Google Analytics is Coming. Is Your Privacy at Risk?

Like it or not, big changes are coming to the Google Analytics platform. The current version of Google Analytics will sunset in favor of Google... Read more

Posted on April 12, 2022 Privacy

Comments to EFF: Sod Off

This is an update on my earlier item about the EFF’s ACLU-like position in the Apple / PowerPage lawsuit. Apparently everyone (all five of ’em)... Read more

data collection
Posted on March 3, 2022March 3, 2022 Privacy

Your Privacy Rights in the Realm of Data Collection

Understanding more about your rights about the types of data being collected about you in today’s privacy sensitive age is important. Things are definitely tightening... Read more

Posted on January 27, 2022 Privacy

I Read Dead Peoples’ Email: UPDATE

Remember this item?  I wrote, regarding a family’s request for access to a serviceman’s email account after his death, as follows: I say that absent... Read more

Posted on August 8, 2021August 18, 2021 Privacy

The digital dead hand

It’s an estate planning / New York bar exam joke — it has to do with something called the Rule Against Perpetuities. Yes, of course, we... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Privacy

I Read Dead Peoples’ Email: UPDATE

Remember this item? Michell Malkin reports on new developments. Like her, though for different reasons set out in my original post, I’m lukewarm about this... Read more

Posted on June 2, 2021 Privacy

We’re from the government, and we’re here to help

Would Barack Obama’s election lead to revival of the “Fairness Doctrine” — and if so, how would that affect bloggers, who basically didn’t exist as... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 Privacy

Google and the Privacy Obsession

Originally posted 2005-06-03 00:00:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Google is the new horseman of the ever-approaching privacy apocalpyse, according to an article in Reuters.... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 Privacy

Privacy rules!

Everyone is going nuts over the changes to the Google privacy rules — so much so that the cool article to write now is, whoa,... Read more

Posted on May 24, 2021 Privacy

The holy grail of Internet privacy

Pajamas Media reports on two stories claimng that a new Firefox variant (remember, Firefox is open source, so you can roll your own) will allow... Read more

Posted on November 1, 2019 Privacy

I Read Dead People’s Email

When you reach a certain age you begin to wonder… what happens to my hard drive when I… you know. How do my Internet buddies... Read more

Posted on October 17, 2019 Privacy

Fools’ Blog Responds to "I Read Dead Peoples’ Email"

Actually responding to my post on the topic, Fools’ Blog: After Death E-Privacy [Link is now dead, sorry! — RDC]: With regard to the Marine’s privacy,... Read more

Posted on June 20, 2017 Privacy

Congressman loses appeal

How’s that for a setup line? No, it’s another story about the use of “chilling effects” and the First Amendment in defense of illegal, usually... Read more

Posted on March 6, 2016December 21, 2016 Privacy

Best of 2010: You got privacy in my policy! No, YOU got policy in MY privacy!

First posted on July 15, 2010.Mindful always of my civic duty, my unique relation to humanity, and legal webby things, I’ve updated the LIKELIHOOD OF... Read more

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The question of whether consumers are likely to be confused is the signal inquiry that determines if a trademark infringement claim is valid. I write here about trademark law, copyright law, brands, free speech (mostly as it relates to the Internet and social media). That may sound like a lot, but it's just a blog.

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