Internet, Reasonable Expectation of Privacy

Monitoring Employee Electronic Communications

Jaburg Wilk on 4/4/2018

A growing number of employers monitor and review their employees’ electronic communications, including telephone calls, emails and internet use, while at work or working away from the office. They cite a number of legitimate...more

Filling the Void in Internet Privacy: Time to Turn to the Courts (Again)

Pierce Atwood LLP on 4/20/2017

Now that the U.S. government has overturned the FCC’s privacy regulations, are courts more likely to step in to protect the Internet privacy rights of individuals?...more

U.S. Government’s Assault on Internet Privacy – Where Do We Go From Here?

Pierce Atwood LLP on 4/6/2017

The U.S. government’s action this week overturning the FCC’s recently passed privacy regulations and stripping the FCC’s authority to implement similar privacy regulations in the future, whether one agrees or disagrees with...more

Does Facebook Have the Right to Challenge Search Warrants Seeking Facebook Users’ Data? New York’s Highest Court Hears Argument

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP on 2/9/2017

Facebook is the latest social media giant to push back on law enforcement efforts to seek user information. On Tuesday, the New York Court of Appeals heard oral argument in a case focusing on whether Facebook has the...more

Evolving Expectations of Privacy: Klayman v. Obama

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP on 12/18/2013

In a 68-page opinion, Federal District Judge Richard J. Leon of the District of Columbia ruled yesterday in Klayman v. Obama that the NSA's systematic collection of telephone metadata of millions of citizens violates the...more

Facebook "Friends", 4th Amendment Privacy & Probable Cause

Cozen O'Connor on 8/28/2012

A recent court decision has added support to the idea that there is no privacy on the internet. In United States v. Meregildo, defendant Melvin Colon moved to suppress evidence seized from his Facebook account pursuant...more