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California Judicial Council Recommends Repeal of Law Criminalizing Juror Internet Use

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In August 2011, California adopted a statute making it a crime for jurors to use social media and the Internet to do research or disseminate information about cases. Now, two years after the law went into effect, the state's Judicial Council has recommended that the statute be repealed.

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A Click is Worth a Thousand Words: Fourth Circuit Sees the Value of a "Like"

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On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued its decision in Bland v.

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Federal Court Finds Stored Communications Act Applies to Facebook Wall Posts

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[Ed. note -- We are pleased today to share with you a blog post by attorney Lindsay Burke of Covington & Burling LLP. This post originally appeared at InsidePrivacy.com.]

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Misidentifications Past and Present: Terror, Suspicion & the Media

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The DMLP blog has been on an unplanned break for a while as a result of the Boston Marathon bombings and subsequent manhunt. Like many in the Boston-Cambridge-Watertown area, we have had our past two weeks disrupted both with our personal attempts to come to terms with this senseless act of violence and by last Friday's "shelter-in-place" request by law enforcement.

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Social Media Goes Legit

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There have several recent developments which mark a milestone in the evolution of social media platforms: their acceptance as mainstream forms of communication, on equal footing with older forms of communicating official or "important" messages.

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Judge: Blogging from the Courtroom OK, Twitter Not So Much

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As Bob Ambrogi reports, on February 19, 2013, Massachusetts Superior Court Justice Peter Lauriat held a hearing in the case of C

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FTC Clarifies Obligations of Product Reviewers, But Does Not Ease Concerns

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On March 12, 2013, the Federal Trade Commission released a new guidance paper entitled ".com Disclosures: How to Make Effective Disclosures in Digital Advertising." The new FTC guidance updates a prior FTC release from 2000 relating to disclosures in online advertising.

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Iowa Retains Media/Non-Media Distinction, Leaving Bloggers Vulnerable

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I've already written several posts about the overblown predictions that a ruling involving an Oregon blogger (now on appeal) would have dire consequences for bloggers in that state.

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Heads Up, Online Radicals -- You're Next

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For me, thinking about one of the Obama administration's latest initiatives to keep us all safe online is like one of those pattern recognition puzzles (you know, like "What is the next term in this sequence: O, T, T, F, F, S, S, E, N, __?").  Here, the sequence is:

cyber bullies, scammers, gangs, sexual predators, ________?

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