Electronic Privacy Information Center

• American Civil Liberties Union; Androgyny Books, Inc. D/B/a a Different Light Bookstores; American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression; Artnet Worldwide Corporation; Blackstripe; Addazi Inc. D/B/a Condomania; Electronic Frontier Foundation; Electronic Privacy Information Center; Free Speech Media; Internet Content Coalition; Obgyn.Net; Philadelphia Gay News; Powell'S Bookstore; Riotgrrl; Salon Internet, Inc.; West Stock, Inc.; Planetout Corporation v. John Ashcroft, in His Official Capacity as Attorney General of the United States, Appellant, 322 F.3d 240 (3rd Cir. 2003)

Douglas A. Griffin, Catherine E. Palmer, Michele M. Pyle, Katherine M. Bolger, Christopher R. Harris, Latham & Watkins, New York, NY, Ann E. Beeson (A...

• Federal Circuits

• Federal Trade Commission Explores Data Privacy

Notice and choice was based on this wonderful myth ... that if we gave consumers enough information about how their data was going to be used, they would begin to exercise market force to encourage companies to adopt better privacy practices," Marc Rotenberg, president and executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said at the December FTC roundtable. "[I]s there anybody today ... who believes that this approach to privacy protection works?

• Compliance Week
• Vol. 7 Nbr. 74, March 2010

• Edward J. Conboy, Eileen M. Conboy, Individually and on Behalf of all Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. At&T Corp. and At&T Universal Card Services Corp., Defendants-Appellees, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Amicus Curiae., 241 F.3d 242 (2nd Cir. 2001)

HENRY H. ROSSBACHER (James S. Cahill, Clara I. Duran Reed, of counsel), Rossbacher & Associates, Los Angeles, CA; Daniel T. Hughes, Morgan, Melhuish, ...

• Federal Circuits

• American Civil Liberties Union; Androgyny Books, Inc. D/B/a a Different Light Bookstores; American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression; Artnet Worldwide Corporation; Blackstripe; Addazi Inc. D/B/a Condomania; Electronic Frontier Foundation; Electronic Privacy Information Center; Free Speech Media; Internet Content Coalition; Obgyn.Net; Philadelphia Gay News; Powell'S Bookstore; Riotgrrl; Salon Internet, Inc.; West Stock, Inc.; Planetout Corporation v. Janet Reno, in Her Official Capacity as Attorney General of the United States Appellant, 217 F.3d 162 (3rd Cir. 2000)

On Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (D.C. No. 98-cv-05591) District Judge: Honorable Lowell A. Re...

• Federal Circuits

• Privacy

...There are two kinds of workplace electronic surveillance, quantitative and qualitative. One ty... records and analyzes quantitative information, such as the number of keystrokes per hour and the...Electronic Privacy Information Center. 1718 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 200. Washingto...

• Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law
• Labor Law

• Robert Peterson, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. National Telecommunications and Information Administration; United States Department of Commerce; Michael D. Gallagher, in His Capacity as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information; Carlos E. Gutierrez, in His Capacity as Secretary of Commerce; Neustar, Incorporated, a Delaware Corporation, Defendants-Appellees. Electronic Privacy Information Center, Amicus Supporting Appellant. Robert Peterson, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. National Telecommunications and Information Administration; United States Department of Commerce; Michael D. Gallagher, in His Capacity as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information; Carlos E. Gutierrez, in His Capacity as Secretary of Commerce; Neustar, Incorporated, a Delaware Corporation, Defendants-Appellees. Electronic Privacy Information Center, Amicus Supporting Appellant., 478 F.3d 626 (4th Cir. 2007)

ARGUED: James Edward Houpt, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, L.L.P., Sacramento, California, for Appellant. Charles Wylie Scarborough, United States De...

• Federal Circuits

• Group Seeking Facebook Probe

WASHINGTON - A privacy-rights group said Thursday it is asking the Federal Trade Commission to examine Facebook's tracking of Internet users after they log off the world's most popular social- networking service. The Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a letter with the FTC Thursday, according to Marc Rotenberg, the Washington-based group's executive director. The group is also asking the agency to examine whether Facebook's new Ticker and Timeline features boost privacy risks for users by combining biographical information in an easily accessible format, said David Jacobs, consumer protection fellow for EPIC.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• September 30, 2011

• EPIC: electronic privacy information center.

www.epic.org EPIC is a "public interest research center" that was established to study and publicize privacy, First Amendment, and civil liberties i...

• Information Outlook
• Vol. 9 Nbr. 11, November 2005

• Sharing' Feature

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Consumer Watchdog today joined the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and other privacy groups in asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Facebook for allegedly tracking users after they have logged out of Facebook and for its new features associated with "Frictionless Sharing. The groups alerted the FTC to reports that Facebook has been using cookies to track the Internet activity of users even after they have logged out of Facebook, in direct opposition to Facebook's representations that it does not engage in this practice.

• U.S. Newswire
• September 29, 2011

• Google Pays Franklin Park Couple $1 for Trespassing

A court agreement that requires Internet giant Google to pay a Franklin Park couple $1 for trespassing when it took Street View photos on their private road is more significant than the money indicates, an electronic privacy rights advocate said Thursday. What's important here is that the court recognized that Google's actions were illegal," said Ginger McCall, a lawyer for the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington.

• Tribune - Review / Pittsburgh Tribune - Review
• December 03, 2010