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Today is data privacy day
According to Sharon E. Herbert’s superb ghosts in the machine blog: January 28th is Data Privacy Day The IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals) has declared January 28, 2008 “Data Privacy Day”, in an effort to encourage privacy professionals to give presentations at schools, colleges and universities next week on the importance of privacy...

Surden on Privacy
Harry Surden (University of Colorado Law School) has posted Structural Rights in Privacy on SSRN...

Enforcement of Privacy Laws: A Freight Train is Coming
European Privacy Law And Social Networking : Privacy Law Blog. This post is a good indication why privacy on the internet is not only front and center as a national issue in the U...

Electronic Privacy Information Center's 2007 International Privacy Ranking
From the Report's overview: Each year since 1997, the US-based Electronic Privacy Information Center and the UK-based Privacy International have undertaken what has now become the most comprehensive survey of global privacy ever published...

Privacy and the Commitment Problem
One of the challenges in understanding privacy is how to square what people say about privacy with what they actually do...

Rate Obama's privacy record
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is promoting the Privacy Coalition campaign to get the public to weigh in on the Obama Administration's work on privacy...

Dumb Foreign Laws
Stupid Laws of Other Countries

Landlord Entry Right and Tenant Privacy
When can a landlord enter a rented dwelling

Dumb New York Laws
Stupid Laws in the Empire State

Dumb Texas Laws
Stupid Laws in the Lone Star State

Dumb California Laws
Stupid Laws in the Sunshine State

The Civil Rights Act of 1871
Law bans discrimination enacted under color of state law

Can a former employee use photographs of jobs completed whie working for me in marketing material for a new business?
There are several issues here

1. Sub contractor started up a compe...

Can the so-called proprety manager enter my duplex without permission?
The manager (sister of owner) has NO right to be in the apartment unless there w...

How to prove housing discrimination based on sexual orientation in student housing?
There are several things you can do. First of all, contact any welfare advisors,...

Can my employer threaten me with termination if I don't seek a transfer to another department?
In many jurisdictions, employees are "at will". This means that their employmen...

He did not show up on the day that he was supposed to. I did not hear from him. I had given him a check for $275. On the face of the check it specified for materials. I received a call and the person from the check cashi
did your gardner speak english? he probably thought you were giving him a handou...

imbee Data Collection
Industrious Kid, Inc. pays $130,000 civil penalty for violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.

AOL Privacy Class Action
Can Proceed

CVS Mailing
Sparks Allegations of Privacy Violation

Health Plan Boycott
Connecticut chiropractic groups to pay $87,000 fine in civil suit.

Reddy Ice Holdings Inc., Arctic Glacier International Inc., and Home City Ice Co.
allegedly violated federal antitrust laws by fixing prices for packaged cubed, crushed, block, and dry ice in the US and Canada.

Florida Cement and Concrete Producers Face Price-Fixing Class Action
Florida Cement and Concrete Producers Face Price-Fixing Class Action