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Germany May Restrict Use of Facebook

Posted to LexisNexis Blog: A view from the crossroads of law and technology by Peter S. Vogel on Tue, Aug 31 2010 9:38 AM

A proposed law in Germany will restrict employers from using Facebook, and other truly social Social Media sites, when recruiting. However the law would allow employers to search business Social Media sites such as LinkedIn. Since there are no current...

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Do We Share Too Much Information?

Posted to LexisNexis Blog: A view from the crossroads of law and technology by Peter S. Vogel on Tue, Aug 24 2010 12:29 PM

Google CEO Eric Schmidt "fears that too much information is shared online, and predicts that people will one day change their name and reinvent themselves in order to escape their digital past." Not a very surprising observation given the explosive...

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College Update - Plagiarism Aplenty, But No eMail or Wristwatches

Posted to LexisNexis Blog: A view from the crossroads of law and technology by Peter S. Vogel on Wed, Aug 18 2010 9:57 AM

Plagiarism is alive and well on college campuses however it is no wonder since the Internet and Social Media have changed communications. Without question Wikipedia has become a reliable source for students and at least 16 US intelligence agencies . Many...

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GPS Tracking Required Warrant

Posted to LexisNexis Blog: A view from the crossroads of law and technology by Peter S. Vogel on Thu, Aug 12 2010 12:18 PM

A court recently ruled that the use of GPS tracking data in a drug distribution case violated the defendant's constitutional rights and the police needed a warrant. The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a brief in support of Antoine Jones that...

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Good News for the Economy - Internet Gambling & Sales Taxes

Posted to LexisNexis Blog: A view from the crossroads of law and technology by Peter S. Vogel on Fri, Aug 6 2010 12:47 PM

Why Congress banned Internet gambling in the US in 2006 is a great mystery particularly since one major result of the ban was Internet gambling went offshore as did the possible tax revenues to the US. By lifting the ban Congress will have a new source...

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PRIVACY: Should the FBI Get Records about Your Internet Activity Without a Subpoena

Posted to LexisNexis Blog: A view from the crossroads of law and technology by Peter S. Vogel on Mon, Aug 2 2010 9:24 AM

A recent report that the White House wants the FBI to have access to an individual's Internet activity may help with investigation of terrorism or intelligence, but what about our expectation of privacy? Notwithstanding all of Mark Zuckerberg's...

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IRS Scored Better Customer Satisfaction than Facebook!

Posted to LexisNexis Blog: A view from the crossroads of law and technology by Peter S. Vogel on Tue, Jul 27 2010 9:45 AM

A new report shows that customers are not that happy with Facebook and MySpace also showed that social media was ranked lower than property & casualty insurance. Also not a surprise that airlines were lower in customer satisfaction than social media...

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eDiscovery Update: Special Masters and eMediation

Posted to LexisNexis Blog: A view from the crossroads of law and technology by Peter S. Vogel on Fri, Jul 23 2010 9:41 AM

Special Masters can help Judges and parties in eDiscovery disputes and also reduce the cost of litigation. Also managing eDiscovery can be improved by using eMediators who can help simply eDiscovery disputes and reduce motion practice. My recent article...

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Facebook - 500 Million, But What Happens When Friends Die?

Posted to LexisNexis Blog: A view from the crossroads of law and technology by Peter S. Vogel on Tue, Jul 20 2010 10:04 AM

Growth at Facebook has been unbelievable and not a surprise that its user rolls will get to 500 million , but last fall a childhood friend died, and a few months later I was taken aback after Facebook asked me to post on his wall. Since so many new Facebook...

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Web Developer Claims He Owns 84% of Facebook

Posted to LexisNexis Blog: A view from the crossroads of law and technology by Peter S. Vogel on Thu, Jul 15 2010 11:26 AM

Purportedly Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave the original web designer 84% of the company and a New York Judge issued the designer's TRO (Temporary Restraining Order) which has been challenged by Zuckerberg and Facebook . Paul Ceglia's lawsuit...

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Lady Gaga Beats Obama to 10 Million Facebook Fans, Prince Goes Nowhere

Posted to LexisNexis Blog: A view from the crossroads of law and technology by Peter S. Vogel on Tue, Jul 13 2010 11:54 AM

At the same time Lady Gaga takes over the Social Media spotlight from the President, Prince announces that the Internet is nowhere and his next album will only be a CD. No surprise what Lady Gaga is doing since "Gaga's Facebook fans organized...

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Google Plans to Take Over Airline Travel

Posted to LexisNexis Blog: A view from the crossroads of law and technology by Peter S. Vogel on Fri, Jul 9 2010 9:26 AM

Google plans to buy ITA Software who provides airline travel utilities to American, Continental, Hotwire, Kayak, Orbitz, Microsoft's Bing, among other companies. Of course this purchase for $700 million will require federal scrutiny given the antitrust...

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Recent Headlines Send Shockwaves - 'Wikipedia and LinkedIn are Down'!

Posted to LexisNexis Blog: A view from the crossroads of law and technology by Peter S. Vogel on Tue, Jul 6 2010 10:04 AM

Tweets a plenty were posted announcing that Wikipedia and LinkedIn were down, but one tweet wondered what would happen if Twitter also went down! We are so dependent on these Social Media tools that when these sites go down the communications also disappears...

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President "Internet Kill Switch" - Good Idea?

Posted to LexisNexis Blog: A view from the crossroads of law and technology by Peter S. Vogel on Fri, Jul 2 2010 9:35 AM

Without much public fanfare recently a Senate Committee unanimously approved the bill dubbed " Internet Kill Switch ," which among other things would allow the President to take over civilian networks in case of an emergency. The Homeland Security...

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FTC Settlement - Twitter Barred for 20 Years From Misleading

Posted to LexisNexis Blog: A view from the crossroads of law and technology by Peter S. Vogel on Mon, Jun 28 2010 12:16 PM

President-Elect Obama's Twitter account was hacked "offering his more than 150,000 followers a chance to win $500 in free gas." Twitter settled the FTC's charges "that it deceived consumers and put their privacy at risk by failing...

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