Monthly Archive: November, 2011

Employment Background Credit Checks – California Becomes 7th State to Ban

As detailed in the map to the left, effective January 1, 2012 California will be the 7th state in the country to bar the use of credit checks for employment background purposes.  This… Read More

Ted’s Tubes: Cyber Security, ICANN XXX Suit and Canadian Spam Law

Cyber Security: Utility False Alarm is a Warning Reports that a Springfield, Illinois water station pump failure was due to Russian hackers are now being disputed by the Department of Homeland Security, which… Read More

In the Courts: Email Litigation, FTC Enforcement, Righthaven’s Losing Streak and More

Michigan Email Law Preempted Under CAN-SPAM A Michigan Federal Court dismissed a complaint under Michigan’s commercial email statute finding that it was preempted by the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003.  As interpreted, the federal… Read More

Congress Watch: Net Neutrality and Piracy Fights

  Net Neutrality Survives Congressional Challenge ILC Summary of Net Neutrality Debate in E-Commerce Law & Policy  Republican efforts to overturn the FCC’s Net Neutrality rules which went into effect this month failed… Read More

DAA Wins Praise for Expansion of Self Reg Principles, Facebook Draws Fire for Offline Tracking

DAA Wins Praise From FTC, Expands Self-Regulatory Principles Facebook Draws Fire from Rockefeller Two years ago the American Association of Advertising Agencies, the Association of National Advertisers, the American Advertising Federation, the Direct… Read More

STATE OF THE BLOGOSPHERE 2011: DANGEROUSLY UNAWARE

STATE OF THE BLOGOSPHERE 2011:  DANGEROUSLY UNAWARE;  FTC TO DISCUSS ON CYBER LAW & BUSINESS REPORT Technorati presented its 2011 State of the Blogosphere at the recent Blog World LA and some of… Read More

This Week on CLBR: Privacy Research and Cyber Thanksgiving

Lorrie Faith Cranor from Carnegie Mellon’s CyLab discusses her recent research on privacy disclosures and behavioral targeting and in the second half we discuss our favorite websites. Related Research Why Johnny Can’t Opt… Read More

Cyber Security/Cyber Espionage Notebook 1.0

(1) DATA BREACH REGULATION Summary of State Data Breach Laws http://bizsecurity.about.com/od/informationsecurity/a/statebreach_laws.htm Bill to Plug Data Breaches Stalls, Politico http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/67464.html#ixzz1ceKiD0Qo (2) CYBER ATTACKS AND CYBER ESPIONAGE Is a Cyber Pearl Harbor on the Horizon,… Read More

ECLP Article on Net Neutrality

        NEW ARTICLE ON NET NEUTRALITY ECLP_Nov 2011_Kelley    

Internet Law Center Announces Victory against Serial Cyber Defamer; Calls for Legislative Action

Internet Law Center Announces Victory against Serial Cyber Defamer; Calls for Legislative Action SANTA MONICA, CA–Nov. 15, 2011—The Internet Law Center, a law firm based in Santa Monica, California, announced today it had… Read More

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