Remember Google Buzz? No? Just a little, maybe? You might have had one or two friends who used it in 2010, or more likely you clicked on it accidentally while trying to find something in your spam folder.  To learn more about Google “Buzz” have a quick peak at this Wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Buzz As you [...]

Late last week the Internet search giant Yahoo! announced it would implement a ‘do not track’ tool across websites hosted on its networks.  Great!  What does that mean? Well, for the average user it means that he or she will now have the option of controlling what information websites like Yahoo can collect, and what [...]

By: Jeffrey Fann As many 3Ls across the nation will tell you, it isn’t easy landing a job these days, and for many, even getting interviews is proving difficult. Now imagine being on an interview and being asked to provide your potential employer with your Facebook login email and password. Would you oblige for the [...]

Another day, another online privacy concern for social media users. A UK company called Datasift has launched a service that will allow companies to mine through two years worth of tweets from Twitter users across the world. Twitter users generate about 250 million tweets a day. Multiply this by two years, and that is a [...]

On September 20, 2011, a class action complaint was filed against the popular music website Pandora.com for violating Michigan’s Video Rental Privacy Act  (M.C.I. §455.1712). That’s right, video rental privacy. For anyone who knows what Pandora is, the first question that comes to mind is, “What does a website which plays music relating to my [...]