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1st Circuit: Maine can restrict prescription info

FAC August 6, 2010

A federal appeals panel has upheld the constitutionality of a Maine law restricting medical data companies’ access to doctors’ prescription information. August 6, 2010 By The Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine —The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston ruled this week on Maine’s law after previously upholding a similar New Hampshire law making doctors’ prescription-writing habits confidential. Last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to New Hampshire’s law, allowing that

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Discovery Rule for Libel Doesn’t Apply to Blogs, Says Federal Judge

FAC August 6, 2010

Aviation lawyer and seasoned pilot Arthur Alan Wolk knows quite a bit about the stratosphere and the troposphere, but he may have learned something new this week about the blogosphere when a federal judge tossed out his libel suit against the bloggers at Overlawyered.com. The National Law Journal August 6, 2010 By Shannon P. Duffy As U.S. District Judge Mary A. McLaughlin sees it, a blog is legally the same as any other “mass media,”

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Privacy Groups Call for Microsoft Investigation

FAC August 6, 2010

Privacy groups have asked Congress to investigate Microsoft in the wake of a Wall Street Journal investigation of Web tracking and targeting. News Broadcasting and Cable August 6, 2010 By John Eggerton Led by the Center for Digital Democracy, a half-dozen consumer watchdog groups sent letters to the heads of the relevant Senate and House oversight committees calling for an investigation of Microsoft’s decision to require users of its 2008 iteration of Explorer to have

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Lawmakers Seek Answers on Online Tracking

FAC August 5, 2010

U.S. Reps. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Joe Barton, R-Texas, are seeking information about the privacy practice of the 15 websites that the Wall Street Journal has identified as installing the most tracking technology on their visitors’ computers. The Wall Street Journal Blog August 5, 2010 By Julia Angwin The representatives, who co-chair the House Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus, sent letters on Thursday to 15 websites saying they were “troubled by the findings in this report, which

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New Law Shields Online Media from Foreign Judgments

FAC August 5, 2010

With passage of the Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage Act, or theSPEECH Act, media companies will be protected against U.S. enforcement of foreign libel judgments when such judgments would conflict with First Amendment protections. Television and Broadcast August 5, 2010 WASHINGTON: The bill was co-sponsored by Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.). The House passed its version of the SPEECH Act, sponsored by Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), in

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