On to 2008
I'm back, after a restful (perhaps overly restful vacation). I thought I'd quickly roundup some recent posts of interest. I do have to admit that although I was starved for US news, I lived without the political/legal blogosphere for a couple of weeks. It was nice.
- Spam/Criminal Liability: Notorious figure (and spam lawsuit defendant) Alan Ralsky has been indicted: The hammer drops; Ralsky indicated (Spam Diaries). I'm not really sure how to react to this. These posterchild indictments definitely don't have much of an appreciable effect on spam in your in-box. If anything, they just illustrate that spamming can be lucrative!
- Email Privacy: If a tree falls in the forest??: Can you sue if a computer reads your email? (Concurring Opinions) The issue of whether network level filtering violates wiretap/message privacy laws is one that will surely turn on technical, complicated statutes. (As such I will refrain from commenting.) It's interesting to see how laws enacted years and decades ago are having to stretch and shrink to adapt to new modes of communication (email, sms, etc.).
- E-filing: A Litigator's Nightmare: Late Filing Costs Client $ 1 Million (How Appealing) This posts touches on one of my favorite topics - e-filing in federal courts. I wonder what accounts for the lag in implementation across various districts, and why the Central District of California (LA) is not one of the earliest jurisdictions to implement e-filing?
- Blogging: Four Lessons Learned (law.com) Mark Herrmann of the Drug and Device Law Blog has a post looking back at his first year of blogging. Particularly worth reading for would-be-bloggers.
- Public Officials and Emails: Houston Prosecutor Under Fire for Personal Emails (chron.com). This story's got it all, off-color jokes, "amorous" exchanges between the prosecutor and his secretary, use of his work computer for campaign purposes. A textbook case of what not to do on email.
- Data Security: People are tired of security breaches (Reasonable Basis) and "are increasingly voicing their displeasure through lawsuits and coordinated complaints." No big surprise there.
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