The New Google Analytics is Coming. Is Your Privacy at Risk?
Brian WallaceLike it or not, big changes are coming to the Google Analytics platform. The current version of Google Analytics will sunset in favor of Google Analytics 4. Is your 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 up where companies can’t collect…
Garbage in, garbage out
Ron ColemanI moan constantly about Congress’s refusal to do its job and make policy decisions about trademark and copyright via legislation that reflect the technological and economic realities of our time,…
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, why is everyone going crazy…
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 CONFUSION® privacy policy. Your family…
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 of the last time the…
No recourse
Ron ColemanJames C. Goodale, the former vice chairman of The New York Times, in the New York Law Journal (registration required): Until the Internet came along, a publisher/distributor, similar to Mr.…
The digital dead hand
Ron ColemanIt’s an estate planning / New York bar exam joke — it has to do with something called the Rule Against Perpetuities. Yes, of course, we know that hands are…
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 anonymous browsing — in effect…
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 political, acts — and this…
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. Why? Because Google lets you…
The Matrix Downloaded
Data security and privacy are not big topical interests of mine. Anything Europeans are obsessive about can’t be all that important. Throw in the ACLU, that predictable bizarro-world weathervane of…
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 move. UPDATE TO THE UPDATE:…
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 a specific compelling reason to…