Overlawyered » privacy http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:28:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Posited “right to be forgotten online” http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/posited-right-to-be-forgotten-online/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/posited-right-to-be-forgotten-online/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:02:16 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27215 This idea, gaining some currency in Europe, would require government to get deeply into the control of privately published information content [Adam Thierer, Scott Greenfield]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/posited-right-to-be-forgotten-online/feed/ 2 December 20 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/december-20-roundup-3/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/december-20-roundup-3/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:09:35 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=26263
  • No regulatory surge under Obama? Check the numbers please [WSJ edit, James Gattuso/Heritage] Now online: Federalist Society convention panels on regulation [Cass et al, Epstein et al] “House passes REINS Act, president promises veto” [Adler, Mike Kelsey/Heritage] Regulation Moratorium and Jobs Preservation Act “dying in Senate committee” [PoL]
  • Study: NY municipalities battered by litigation [Sydney Cresswell & Michael Landon-Murray, Rockefeller/Albany, PDF]
  • Dodd-Frank and corporate credit [David Henderson]
  • Inside the great Las Vegas condo-board-takeover scam [Bloomberg, earlier]
  • “Copyright Law and European Compilations of U.S. Jazz Recordings” [Kerr, Volokh]
  • Autism-care cheat: “Former MoFo Partner Draws 12-Month Sentence in Fraud Case” [Recorder]
  • Would privacy torts do better? Jim Harper on the Fair Credit Reporting Act [Cato Institute, PDF]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/december-20-roundup-3/feed/ 0     November 14 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-14-roundup-3/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-14-roundup-3/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:28:58 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25582
  • Seeking to address widespread pharmaceutical shortages, Obama executive order downplays government role in causing them [Fair Warning, WSJ editorial, earlier here, here, here, here, etc.]
  • “The school has a strict no-hugging policy….” [WKMG Orlando]
  • Retired Justice John Paul Stevens isn’t buying the “Thomas should recuse” meme [USA Today via Legal Ethics Forum]
  • Not COPPA-cetic: among other unintended consequences, Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act has encouraged parents to help kids to falsify ages online [Danah Boyd via Jim Harper, Suderman, Reason, Stewart Baker, earlier]
  • Lawmaking from the bench: Maryland high court strikes down law limiting landlords’ lead paint liability [Ronald Miller] “Maryland court sides with plaintiffs in slip-and-fall cases” [Emily Babay, Examiner]
  • Trial lawyers help bail out Bexar County Democratic party [San Antonio Express-News]
  • Supreme Court agrees to hear case arguing that aggressive enforcement of local housing code violates federal Fair Housing Act [Magner v. Gallagher, SCOTUSBlog, Illinois Municipal League, http://www.inversecondemnation.com/inversecondemnation/2011/11/potemkin-village-hawaiian-style.html">Fisher/Forbes]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-14-roundup-3/feed/ 0     November 4 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-4-roundup-3/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-4-roundup-3/#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:29:23 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25349
  • “Kentucky antidiscrimination law doesn’t bar discrimination based on litigiousness” [Volokh]
  • “Lawyer sues to stop fireworks show; now wants $756K in fees from taxpayers” [CJAC, San Diego]
  • Leahy bill reauthorizing VAWA (Violence Against Women Act) includes language codifying OCR assault on campus due process [Bader, Daily Caller, Inside Higher Ed, FIRE, earlier here, here]
  • “One-Ninth the Freedom Kids Used To Have” [Free-Range Kids] “WARNING: Baby in pram! Anything could happen!” [same]
  • New Zealand considers criminalizing breaches of fiduciary duty [Prof. Bainbridge]
  • From libertarian Steve Chapman, a favorable rating for Rahm Emanuel as Chicago mayor [Chicago Tribune]
  • Did California privacy legislation just regulate bloggers? [Eric Goldman, Paul Alan Levy]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-4-roundup-3/feed/ 2     “Actress sues Amazon over her age on its IMDb site” http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/actress-sues-amazon-over-her-age-on-its-imdb-site/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/actress-sues-amazon-over-her-age-on-its-imdb-site/#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:15:45 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25205 “An actress has sued Amazon.com for more than $1m after her age was posted on its Internet Movie Database. The unnamed actress says the website misused her legal date of birth after she signed up to the IMDbPro service in 2008.” [BBC]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/actress-sues-amazon-over-her-age-on-its-imdb-site/feed/ 7     Judge Kozinski on modern privacy http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/judge-kozinski-on-modern-privacy/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/judge-kozinski-on-modern-privacy/#comments Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:43:02 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24853

    Ninth Circuit chief judge and libertarian favorite Alex Kozinski gave the annual B. Kenneth Simon lecture earlier this month at Cato’s annual Constitution Day Conference. [YouTube]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/judge-kozinski-on-modern-privacy/feed/ 0     Will California regulate social networking? http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/will-california-regulate-social-networking/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/will-california-regulate-social-networking/#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:46:04 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23418 State Senator Ellen Corbett (D-San Leandro) has vowed to press the idea, the apparent idea being that the government is a better guardian of privacy interests than Facebook and similar services [Jacqueline Otto, CEI "Open Market"] Meanwhile, Geoffrey Manne reports that the feds are itching to start an antitrust or unfair competition case against Google [Main Justice via Truth on the Market]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/will-california-regulate-social-networking/feed/ 0     Banning hidden farm videos? http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/banning-hidden-farm-videos/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/banning-hidden-farm-videos/#comments Thu, 12 May 2011 19:10:55 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=22963 Lawmakers in at least three states have proposed new laws criminalizing the taking of photos on farms without permission of the owner — and sometimes going much further than that, too. The idea is to stop animal-welfare activists from compiling unauthorized footage of allegedly inhumane conditions. I comment on that — and on some related photography and farm issues — at Cato at Liberty.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/banning-hidden-farm-videos/feed/ 3     Anti-speech “superinjunctions” in the U.K. http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/anti-speech-superinjunctions-in-the-u-k/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/anti-speech-superinjunctions-in-the-u-k/#comments Sun, 01 May 2011 05:26:06 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=22788 The so-called superinjunction is a gag order that “prevents the media from even reporting that an injunction was obtained,” and runs against the public generally rather than merely organizations named in the legal action. In Britain, which lacks a tradition equivalent to our First Amendment, courts regularly hand down these orders on the grounds of protecting litigants’ privacy, and controversy is mounting as a result. [Guardian and editorial, Kampfner/Independent, Katya Wachtel/Business Insider (on RBS executive case)]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/anti-speech-superinjunctions-in-the-u-k/feed/ 4     San Francisco panel: places of public assembly should have to photograph patrons http://overlawyered.com/2011/04/san-francisco-panel-places-of-assembly-should-have-to-photograph-patrons/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/04/san-francisco-panel-places-of-assembly-should-have-to-photograph-patrons/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 05:05:57 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=22597 “The Electronic Frontier Foundation joined civil liberties and privacy groups in criticizing a proposal from the San Francisco Entertainment Commission that would require all venues with an occupancy of over 100 people to record the faces of all patrons and employees and scan their ID’s for storage in a database which they must hand over to law enforcement on request. … Events with strong cultural, ideological, and political components are frequently held at venues that would be affected by these rules.” [EFF]

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