Since filing for bankruptcy on February 5, 2015, RadioShack is now in the process of figuring out how to pay off its creditors. The company is auctioning off real estate, trademarks, patents, and other intellectual property, but one of the company’s most valuable assets is the all of the customer data it has collected over…

Hello All, We would like to take this time to congratulate the following people for having their articles recently cited in the following journals:   1. David Banisar & Simon Davies, Global Trends in Privacy Protection: An International Survey of Privacy, Data Protection, and Surveillance Laws and Developments, 18 J. MARSHALL J. COMPUTER & INFO. L….

An Illinois man has filed a lawsuit against Facebook regarding the facial recognition software Facebook uses to give users “tag suggestions” for photos posted on the social media site.[1]  When a Facebook user view photos of his or her friends, an option appears asking the user if he or she wants to “tag” his or…

Journal of Information Technology & Privacy Law Symposium   Legal Problems in Data Management: IT & Privacy at the Forefront   Information on Presenters 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Dual-Use Devices in the Workplace   Eugene Goryunov, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP Greg Polins, Associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP Ryan Hubbard, Associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP…

More and more consumers use credit cards when paying for their items at the grocery or department store. These consumers probably do not realize that by using credit cards instead of cash, their personal information stores collect their personal information and could then sell the information to a third-party. A few of the largest data…

As the years past and we delve deeper into a society entranced with technology, we allow ourselves to become more susceptible to invasions of privacy by hackers. It is no secret that a number of organizations, such as Target, Jimmy Johns, and Sony, have had the unfortunate run in with security breaches by computer hackers….

Nowadays, identity theft involving credit cards has become a common theme in the news. In the past, thieves were able to obtain imprint of our credit cards from the carbon copies. Although some of the thieves are stealing our credit cards before we can even realize it, others are implementing novel ways to obtain our…

Online pre-settlement litigation funding, or more causally known as online “lawsuit lending,” is a persistent problem affecting litigation and the courts. These companies lend money primarily over the Internet and the ability of consumers, their attorneys, the courts, or even the government to have sufficient knowledge of what consumers are agreeing to when taking one…

With the recent Ebola outbreak in Africa and cases reaching the United States, individuals everywhere are concerned about catching the deadly disease. Doctors and nurses who were helping treat Ebola patients in Africa, returned to the United States for treatment after catching the deadly disease. Within days, people all over the world knew the individual’s…

We are in the next phase of the Internet.  Big data is an all-encompassing term for the collection of large and complex data sets that requires in-depth analyses.  The data is found in modes of sharing, storing, transfer, visualization, capture, curation, and even privacy violations.  It is apparent that individuals’ expectations of privacy on the…