As a law student, if my iPhone were to be stolen or misplaced and then hacked, the individual in possession of my phone would be privy to pictures of my dog sleeping, text messages telling my husband how long I’ll be in the library and a huge collection of studying music as well as the [...]

The EFF brought filed a complaint in federal court alleging that federal agencies failed to respond to a FOIA request for documents concerning the government’s policies about social media investigation techniques.

How Lawyers View Death
Death is always a morbid topic, but we’re mortal beings and it’s better to discuss this topic sooner rather than later. As law students we are quite detached from death because we are trained to think of death in legal terms infused with logic and exempt from pathos.
In law school, students learn [...]

According to BoingBoing.net, the internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama’s administration refused to disclose due to “national security” concerns, has leaked. It’s bad. It says:

That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr [...]

There I was enjoying my Monday afternoon when I received the following email:

a form has been submitted on October 19, 2009, via: http://socialmedialawstudent.com/contact/ [IP [Redacted]]
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Hi, My name is Micah and I am interested in doing a guest post for your blog. I have a post called The best Iphone apps for Lawyers and was [...]

DUI-T – driving under the influence of Twitter, of course.
Crowd Science recently conducted a study about social media, particularly social media use and driving habits. And while it can be said that the results shock the conscience, they aren’t particularly shocking otherwise.
You’ve all seen him (or her): the genius in the middle lane, straying left [...]

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazettereports that self-described anarchist Elliot Madison and Elena Madison were arrested for “using Twitter to inform protesters in Pittsburgh about the movements of local officers.”

What is Behavioral Advertising?

Behavioral Advertising is when advertisers use information gathered from cookies placed on a user’s website and information gathered from user’s public profiles to target a user with a specific advertisement. Numerous websites sell their user’s public information or place cookies on user’s computers to track users and their buying behavior. Advertisers claim [...]