Welcome to our weekly recap of stories relating to Social Media and the Law. This week’s stories cover many issues including Twitter bans and revelations, Google’s privacy policy and web history wipeout, Yahoo and Facebook patent war, Pinterest legal concerns, and tips for those in the hotel and leisure business and more.
These are some of the articles, reports, posts, etc. that caught our attention this week. We originally send them out through our twitter account @law2smdeborah, so follow us to get them as we find them. But many of them are such great resources we don’t want you to miss them, so we’ve decided to put them as a weekly recap. The links will take you to their original sources, whether Mashable, Lexology, and/or others. Enjoy and let us know some of the stories you’ve found interesting this week. Just share in the comments below. Have a great week!
- Twitter Must ID User Who Threatened Michele Bachmann, Judge Rules http://mashable.com/2012/02/27/twitter-bachmann/ via @mashable
- FBI Shuts Down 3,000 Warrantless GPS Devices After Court Ruling [VIDEO] mashable.com/2012/02/27/fbi…
- Fund for All: ‘Crowdfunding’ Supporters Look to Congress to Lighten Regulatory Load – ABA Journal j.mp/xgdQbN
- Brazil Sues Twitter in Bid to Ban Speed Trap and Roadblock Warnings – News – ABA Journal j.mp/xDinLP
- Facebook Posts Can Predict Job Performance, Study Says – News – ABA Journal j.mp/xHkVJL
- Man’s Facebook Rant Violated Protective Order; Judge Says He Can Post Apology or Go to Jail – j.mp/zoEvHW
- WikiLeaks Release Shows U.S. May Charge Julian Assange [REPORT] mashable.com/2012/02/28/jul… via @mashable
- Google Target of EU Privacy Investigation @mashable on.mash.to/ww55Po
- Firewall Down: Chinese Get Access to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube [VIDEO] mashable.com/2012/02/29/chi… via @mashable
- RT @mashable Two Simple Steps to Take More Control Over Google’s New Privacy Policy on.mash.to/xAsNCM
- Accord Reached Settling Lawsuit Over BP Oil Spill: nyti.ms/A95yId
- Man Sues Google Over Street View Photo of Him Peeing [VIDEO] mashable.com/2012/03/02/goo… via @mashable
- Internet Archive’s Repository Collects Thousands of Books: nyti.ms/xqimrk
- Using Social Media for Hiring Can Get you Sued reut.rs/yOqnHT via @reuters
- Content Carries No Legal Liability For Hosts Of Social Media Sites | TechWeekEurope UK techweekeurope.co.uk/news/content-c…
- Social Media Checklist: 3 Ways to Stay Out of Trouble business2community.com/social-media/s… via @B2Community
- Yahoo threatens Facebook as social media patent war looms – Times Of India timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/inte… via @ArchiveDigger
- 26 legal tips for hotel HR professionals: bit.ly/A8hl4c via @AddThis
- Insurers Leverage Social Media Compliance Platform – Insurance Networking News: bit.ly/yk5OYD via @AddThis
- How Brands Can Use Pinterest Without Breaking the Law adage.com/u/bPsOOb via @adage
- Half of businesses don’t realize the legal liability in social media thegrapevinemagazine.com/?id=5389
- Did the Three Little Pigs Get a Fair Trial? – The Atlantic bit.ly/yM49ck via @AddThis
- Social media brings new legal issues to hotels: bit.ly/yQEMjT via @AddThis
- Pinterest’s Predicament: Legal Issues Prevent Social Media Maturity shar.es/gipJq
- Legal & General Reveals Increased Risk from Digital Criminals – Business Review Canada businessreviewcanada.ca/press_releases…
- Important before 3/1 Delete Your Web History from Google digitaljournal.com/article/320137
- The Right to Be Forgotten stanfordlawreview.org/online/privacy…
- 10 Basic Social Media eDiscovery Issues Legal Firms Should Consider blog.teris.com/socialmedialeg…
- For Facebook, Risk and Riches in User Data: nyti.ms/x3qVoe
- WikiLeaks to Publish Stratfor E-Mails: nyti.ms/zd9LDF
- Attack on Vatican Web Site Offers View of Hacker Group’s Tactics: nyti.ms/A7HZvM
- Weekly Recap 2/27/12 – Stories Relating to Social Media & the Law shar.es/g4SiC
- RT @Mazi: Study Shows #Women Are Smarter Than Men About Social Media onforb.es/AoYUNX
- Retweeted by Deborah Gonzalez
- RT @Mazi: Facebook Users Becoming More #Privacy Savvy forbes.com/sites/larrymag…”
- A different perspective about RapidGator from uploaders on WJunction: bit.ly/wuo0rq – Some allege that RapidGator are a scam service.