Brooks Pierce attorney Will Quick recently spoke to Raleigh television station WRAL about the intersection of privacy law and home surveillance technology, particularly doorbell cameras, used by private citizens. While most people use these types of...(read more)
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The contributors to Brooks Pierce’s Digital Media & Data Privacy Law comprise our firm’s digital media & data privacy practice group. We have successfully represented broadcast and print clients in First Amendment and other media litigation...(read more)
Not in My House - California to Regulate IoT Device Security
On Friday, Sept. 28, 2018, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law first-in-the-nation legislation requiring that manufacturers include “reasonable security features” on any device that is “capable of connecting to the Internet”—commonly...(read more)
Ninth Circuit Says You’re Going to Jail for Visiting That Website without Permission
Zounds, right? But that is arguably what the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said about the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in Facebook v. Power Ventures, Inc. on July 12 th . Let’s get to it. Facts Power Ventures and its CEO Steven Vachani...(read more)
Ninth Circuit Interprets “Without Authorization” under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
When we last left David Nosal, he had escaped liability under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act after convincing some of his former colleagues at executive search firm Korn/Ferry to use their log-in credentials to download source lists, names and...(read more)
Taking a Walk Back to a Kinder, Gentler Interpretation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
We don’t usually talk about four-year-old court decisions in the first instance here. But the Ninth Circuit has issued a pair of noteworthy opinions interpreting the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in the last few weeks. And to understand those it will...(read more)
Fourth Circuit Says Law Enforcement Doesn’t Need a Warrant to Figure out Where You Are
Like many people, Aaron Graham and Eric Jordan carried cell phones around in 2011. Unlike most people, Graham and Jordan were convicted of crimes arising from their participation in a series of armed robberies [1] in that period, and were soon sorry...(read more)
Stop Faxing
I’ve long thought that sending faxes was a pretty silly means of communication. Don’t send me a fax. I don’t want it. At some point I’m hoping that even my kids’ doctor’s office will get dragged into the 20 th century and drop their insistence on...(read more)