BNA INSIGHTS: IP Addresses for IP Attorneys: A Primer on Emerging Issues

By Julia Anne Matheson and Michael R. Justus, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, Washington, D.C. IP attorneys: meet IP address ownership, the next-generation property dispute. Every device that connects to the internet, from laptops to smart phones, is assigned a unique address called an internet protocol address. The IP address allows the device to communicate [...]

BNA INSIGHTS: High-Profile Breaches Spur Congressional Activity on Privacy, Data Security Policy

With a Republican-controlled House opposite a Democratic-controlled Senate, and presidential and congressional elections looming in less than sixteen months, few proposals of significance are capable of advancing to become law…

No Place to Hide: First Amendment Protection for Location Privacy

The U.S. Supreme Court has recognized fundamental rights to speak anonymously and to assemble privately. For those rights to have any meaning, the state cannot know the physical location of U.S. citizens at every moment of every day…

BNA INSIGHTS: What Every Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Lawyer Should Know About Mobile Telephone Forensics

Mobile telephone devices have transformed our lives forever. Whether used merely as a communications gizmo to assist us with the bevy of ordinary personal and professional tasks that crop up during the day, or used as a high-tech viaduct to connect with others in ways beyond mere…

Third Circuit Court of Appeals Rules Cell Location Information Isn’t Tracking Data; Warrant Not Always Needed

A court may not categorize a cell phone as a tracking device as a means to deny a government request under the Stored Communications Act for an ex parte order to a communications service provider to…

BNA INSIGHTS: Quon Case, Technology, and the Legal System: Supreme Court Passes on Sweeping Statement but Raises Key Policy Points

On June 17, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Ontario v. Quon, 560 U.S. ____, 130 S. Ct. 2619 (2010) (9 PVLR 893, 6/21/10),one of the most closely watched employment cases in years. In unanimously holding that a city’s review of an…

BNA INSIGHTS: Anti-Spam Litigation Involving Text Messages: What Marketers Need to Know

The use of social networks to market goods and services is a great marketing tool, but it is not without risk. Marketers must use caution when expanding their campaigns to emerging…

Supreme Court Rules City’s Search of Police Officer’s Text Messages Not Privacy Breach

A California city did not violate a police officer’s Fourth Amendment privacy rights by reviewing personal text messages he…

FCC Seeks Comment on Proposal to Certify Telecom, Internet Service Provider Data Security

The Federal Communications Commission May 11 published a notice of inquiry seeking comment on whether the agency should establish a voluntary market incentives-driven…

Privacy Groups Urge Supreme Court to Tread Cautiously in Quon Work Texting Case

The U.S. Supreme Court should exercise caution in reviewing whether a police officer had a reasonable expectation of privacy in personal text messages sent from and received by his employer-issued pager, because the court’s ruling may reverberate beyond the public sector workplace, privacy groups argued in a friend of the court brief filed March 23.

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