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District of Columbia Bar: eDiscovery Vendors with Non-Lawyers Can’t Practice Law
In a lengthy June 20 ethics opinion, the District of Columbia bar considered an interesting question- can an eDiscovery vendor practice law? The answer, at least in D.C., is that Discovery service...
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Sen. Franken Calls Hearing On Face Scans
Sen. Al Franken, who chairs the Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law, has announced a hearing next week about the widespread use of facial recognition technology, and...
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ICE Freezes 70 Domains For Alleged Copyright Violations
The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Rights Center, a division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) just shut down 70 websites for allegedly selling counterfeit...
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Franken Fights Facebook At Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing
When we mentioned last week that Sen. Al Franken had called for hearings about facial scanning technology and its implications to privacy, we didn’t think he’d be mostly focusing on Facebook. But that...
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Senate Votes Down Cybersecurity Bill
Earlier this afternoon, Sens. Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins’ proposed Cybersecurity Act was defeated in the U.S. Senate. From The Hill: S. 3414 would have increased cyber protections for the...
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D.C. Circuit To TSA: Explain Yourselves!
On Wednesday, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued one of the shortest orders I’ve ever seen. In it, the court compelled the Transportation Security...
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House Extends Warrantless Surveillance Legislation
Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted to extend the controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), renewing it through the end of 2017. The law authorizes the federal government to...
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House Updates Video Privacy Law From 1988
We’ve discussed the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) on IT-Lex a couple of times in the past, and both stories made it clear that the law was out of touch with today’s technological advances....
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