By: Aaron Krowne In a major recent case testing California’s medical information privacy law, part of the California Medical Information Act, or CMIA (California Civil Code § 56 et seq.), the Third District Court of Appeals in Sutter Health v. Superior Court held on July 21, 2014 that confidential information covered by the law must be…
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Through the Looking “Glass”: Google Glass Creates a New Legal Wonderland
By: Aaron Krowne You may have heard quite a bit of buzz about “Google Glass” in the past few years – and if you aren’t already intimately familiar with it, you probably at least know it is a new technology from Google that involves a “computer and camera” grafted onto otherwise standard eyeglasses. Indeed, this…
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California Attorney General Issues Guidance on Complying with Do-Not-Track
By: Aaron Krowne In 2013, the California Legislature passed AB 370, an addition to California’s path-blazing online consumer privacy protection law in 2003, the California Online Privacy Protection Act (“CalOPPA”). AB 370 took effect January 1, 2014, and adds new requirements to CalOPPA pertaining to consumers’ use of Do-Not-Track (DNT) signals in their web browsers…
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Social Media and Discovery
Social networking sites, such as Facebook and MySpace, have become repositories of large amount of personal data. Increasingly this data is being viewed as relevant to all manner of litigation proceedings, and as such is increasingly being sought during discovery in civil litigation. Business and individuals that use social networking services should be aware of…
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