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A&A: Can businesses ban Google Glass?

FAC August 15, 2014

Q: Can businesses ban customers from wearing Google Glass while on their premises? So, not simply banning video recording, but the actual wearing of the device. A: I cannot think of any reason why a business could not prohibit its customers from wearing Google Glass on their premises, except that it probably could not do so where the device is required for a disability. Otherwise, it would seem that under the First Amendment, such a prohibition

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A move to enhance email privacy

FAC March 22, 2013

A San Francisco Chronicle tech writer finds hope that state or federal law will be changed to require warrants when law enforcement seeks individuals’ private emails stored by companies such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft. James Temple cites legislation in the state Senate and efforts in Congress that would hold government to tougher standards for obtaining emails. Full Story

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Federal court shields Google/NSA partnership from public scrutiny

donal brown May 14, 2012

The U.S. Court of Appeals from D.C. ruled that interchanges between Google and the National Security Agency on cybersecurity and encryption are not part of the public record. The Electronic Privacy Information Center used a Freedom of Information Act request to seek the records following a cyber attack against Google in 2012. -db From The Blog of Legal Times, May 11, 2012, by Mike Scarcella. Full story

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Opinion: Suggestions made for saving news industry

donal brown April 26, 2012

Speakers at a conference for media executives urged them to bolster the bottom line by radically changing the way they presented the news. Among their suggestions were to provide more context for and linkages to the news; provide more analysis; and employ alternatives to the narrative form, e.g., “Fusion Tables and query strings, status updates and tweets.” -db From a commentary in paidContent, April 26,2012, by Robert Andrews. Full story  

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