Columbia Science and Technology Law Review » Data Breach Law http://www.stlr.org Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:21:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 STLR Link Roundup – December 11, 2009 http://www.stlr.org/2009/12/stlr-link-roundup-december-11-2009/ http://www.stlr.org/2009/12/stlr-link-roundup-december-11-2009/#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:05:44 +0000 STLR http://www.stlr.org/?p=739 The latest on the STLR radar:

  • Judges and Facebook – Is it ok to be FB friends with lawyers?  The Florida Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee says no, reports the New York Times.
  • Michael Arrington and Crunchpad sues JooJoo for the joint tablet venture that so publicly went wrong, says Gizmodo.
  • The Environmental Protection Agency announces that greenhouse gases pose a danger to human health and environment.  New federal and possibly international regulation are expected to follow, according to the New York Times.
  • Who will protect us from the robot invasion?  Maybe lawyers will, a pair of scholars at Stanford University tells the San Francisco Chronicle.
  • The legal implications of new technology aren’t all covered in intellectual property classes – Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government blog looks at the possible use of eminent domain to take the “wind rights” of farmers and build green-friendly windmills.
  • Text messages are the new “digital lipstick on the collar” and are increasingly showing up as critical evidence in divorce cases, writes the New York Times.
  • The EU drops its antitrust case against memory-maker Rambus in exchange for concessions, according to the Associated Press.
  • A federal judge finalizes a $675,000 verdict against a Boston University student for sharing 30 copyrighted songs online, Wired’s Threat Level reports.
  • Apple countersues Nokia for patent infringement – this is getting ugly, says All Things Digital’s Digital Daily.
  • A payroll and credit card payment processing company’s failure to protect itself from massive data breach was not grounds for a securities fraud case by shareholders.  Law.com discusses the New Jersey District Court ruling.
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  • Patently-O wonders whether the Supreme Court might take the opportunity afforded by the upcoming Bilski method patent case to scrap software patents, and states the socio-economic case for abandoning them.
  • Engineering crime scenes: Lawyers.com considers a study which suggests that fabricating DNA evidence is far from science fiction.
  • On the Edges of Science and Law blogs about the latest developments in the challenge to the constitutionality and validity of patents in two breast cancer genes by the Association for Molecular Pathology.
  • Second Life and death: The New York Times reports on the issues raised by online virtual estates after the passing of their owners.
  • Gigaom recaps the substance of the recent FCC approval of draft proposed rules on net neutrality.
  • Ephemerallaw takes a look at the nation’s first federal personal data security breach provisions, tucked away in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
  • Not all omega-3 fatty acids are created equal: The Economist describes the developments in the regulation of food health and nutrition claims on both sides of the Atlantic.
  • For an international perspective: European blogs Marques and Catch Us If You Can!!! weigh in on the use of “RNA” in trademarks as addressed by the European Court of First Instance (full text of the CFI’s judgment here).
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