Legal implications of cloud computing. From Gmail and Flickr to Marks & Spencer and Mothercare, you would be hard-pushed to find a consumer or business in the UK that does not rely on at least one cloud-based service.
An umbrella term for outsourced technology services, such as email and web hosting, cloud computing allows businesses to outsource a crucial but highly specialised part of their operation to a specialist firm. The Legal Implications of Social Networking Part Three: Data Security. In 2011, InfoLawGroup began its “Legal Implications” series for social media by posting Part One (The Basics) and Part Two (Privacy).
Well, after 4th quarter year-end madness and a few holidays Part Three is ready to go. In this post, we explore how security concerns and legal risk arise and interact in the social media environment. Again, the intended audience for this blogpost are organizations seeking to leverage social media, and understand and address the risks associated with its use. Facebook And The Job Interview: What Employers Should Be Doing. Facebook faces facial recognition fight in Norway. Facebook is being probed by the Norwegian Data Protection Authority over concerns regarding its facial recognition tool that automatically suggests people's names to tag in pictures.
Facebook started rolling out the Tag Suggestions feature worldwide in June 2011, and ever since has faced backlash from privacy groups in Europe . When you upload new photos, Facebook uses software similar to that found in many photo editing tools to match your new photos to other photos you're tagged in. Similar photos are grouped together and, whenever possible, Facebook suggests the names of your friends in the photos.
In other words, the square that magically finds faces in a photo also suggests names of your Facebook friends to streamline the tagging process, which can be especially useful when you have the same friends in multiple uploaded shots. Data protection is currently policed by separate regulators in Europe. Social Networks Spread Defiance Online. SNGovt_SummaryFINAL. 83 million Facebook accounts are fakes and dupes. Cloud Computing: Legal and Regulatory Issues. Technological and security issues aside, there are also a host of other regulatory, compliance and legal issues to consider when moving to the cloud.
Adapted from “Securing the Cloud: Cloud Computer Security Techniques and Tactics” (Syngress, an imprint of Elsevier, 2011) The legal and regulatory landscape around cloud computing is by no means static. There are new laws being proposed that could change the responsibilities of both cloud computing tenants and providers. Cloud computing that employs a hybrid, community or public cloud model “creates new dynamics in the relationship between an organization and its information, involving the presence of a third party: the cloud provider.
Social media legal issues to watch in 2012. As 2012 begins, social media is in continuous full swing, constantly growing and evolving.
As social media continues to grow and dominate business and our everyday lives, a growing number of new legal issues are arising too. In some social media cases, there are familiar scenarios with new facts, but in other cases there is no quick answer, and businesses and individuals are left to wonder what the best course of action is. As an attorney at Meltzer Lippe whose practice includes social media law, Internet law and intellectual property, this is an interesting time for social media and the law. Frequently, as in the below examples, people find themselves in situations spurred by the use of social media that does not have an obvious legal answer.
I recently read an interesting article that discussed predictions for social media law in 2012. 1. 2. 3. 4. The article further discussed an expected increase in the use of social media evidence in courts. News-cloud-computing. Facebook2. The Legal Implications of Social Networking: The Basics (Part One) We are in the midst of a communications revolution.
Use of social media for communication purposes continues to grow, while "old school" messaging media like email is on the decline. Facebook snoopers to be exposed - Technology. Facebook fans beware - the days when you could snoop through your friends, former partners' and work colleagues' pages anonymously are due to end.
The social networking site has announced that it will soon let users see who has been snooping through their pages. The move is expected to dramatically cut the browsing habits of hundreds of millions of users. The change to the website - which has more than 900 million members - applies to group pages; meaning users can see who has visited any group which they are a member of.
But already there are suggestions that Facebook may unfurl the technology across the site, meaning the naughty-naughty-stalky-stalky generation may soon see their fingerprint-free snooping habits curtailed, or face the embarrassment of their ex's new boyfriend/girlfriend realising they were too curious to resist an online-curtain twitch.
Each day, more than 250 million photos are uploaded to Facebook, and 526 million people log in, up 41 per cent from a year ago. Facebook Is Using You. Burglary victim uses Facebook to name and shame - Crime. After chasing a young man who had broken into her house down the street, a Rotorua woman found out who her alleged burglar was and named and shamed him on Facebook. The woman, who didn't want to be identified, caught someone in the middle of stealing from her house and gave chase before calling police. She then outed the culprits online. From there, her post went viral among her Facebook friends and she received plenty of support - even from the extended families of those she had named and shamed.
While Rotorua police are grateful for the community support, they have warned people against posting information on social media sites as it has the potential to jeopardise investigations. Police have charged three youths with burglary and interfering and breaking into motorvehicles, Inspector Ed Van Den Broek, area tactical response manager for Rotorua police, said. "All three have been actively offending in the Koutu/Kawaha Pt/Selwyn Heights area," Mr Van Den Broek said.