HOLIDAY TRAVEL WARNING: FOUR COMMON PRIVACY GAFFES THAT ARE WORSE THAN COAL IN YOUR STOCKING12/23/2011 Sleigh bells ring…and people get lax about computer privacy. Your comfort and joy might be headed south if you don’t think about what you unwittingly reveal during the holidays:
Is Your Seatmate Stealing Business Secrets? As you travel for the holidays, you’re probably focused on flight delays, the unfinished work you left behind, or how to avoid certain relatives. You may be thrilled about the chance to see old friends, get a change of climate, and stop thinking about the work you left behind. You probably aren’t thinking about your seatmate stealing business ideas or information by peeking at your screen. Unless you make an effort to protect that information when you nod off, your on-screen information could be fair game to that nosey passenger sitting next to you or across the aisle.
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When does tweeting about a person qualify as cyberstalking? A federal judge in Maryland ruled yesterday that the First Amendment applied to tweets and called into question the scope of the federal cyberstalking law.
The federal law against cyberstalking originally dealt just with serious threats of violence. But the law was expanded in 2006 to criminalize using the internet to “harass and cause substantial emotional distress to a person in another state.” William Cassidy was charged with cyberstalking Alyce Zeoli, a Buddhist religious leader, based on his tweets, such as “Do the world a favor and go kill yourself. P.S. Have a nice day.” Zeoli asserted that the tweets made her so fear for her safety that she had not left her house for a year and a half, except to see her psychiatrist. In assessing our rights in the digital age, Judge Roger Titus analogized to the colonial era in order to determine whether the U.S. Constitution applies to tweets and blogs: Did you know that key features of your smartphone—its camera, microphone, and its ability to connect to the Internet—can be surreptiously used against you? Read my blog about it on Time.com.
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Lori AndrewsLori is a law professor and the author of I KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND I SAW WHAT YOU DID: SOCIAL NETWORKS AND THE DEATH OF PRIVACY. Sign up for Lori's newsletter.
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