Topic
Data Mining
53 published works
FCA Update
First Monthly OIG Work Plan Update Shows Increasing Use of Data-Mining to Find Audit Targets
By Tony Maida, Tiffany T. Mason
Following on the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General's (OIG) June announcement that it would begin updating its public-facing Work Plan on a monthly basis, OIG…
The Legal Dish
Dangers of Data-Mining in California Restaurants: Song-Beverly Credit Card Act
By Duane Morris
By Constantine Mittendorf Data is hugely important in running a successful restaurant today. Targeted email marketing campaigns can be an invaluable marketing tool. But trying to collect too much data…
The Right Coast
Palantir is reportedly in trouble – Business Insider
Palantir, the extremely secretive Silicon Valley data-mining startup said to be valued at over $20 billion, has had a rough year with lots of turnover and big-name customers canceling their…
The Right Coast
When Lobbyists Write Legislation, This Data Mining Tool Traces The Paper Trail
Computers can do much better. A prototype tool, presented in September at Bloomberg s Data for Good Exchange 2015 conference, mines the Sunlight Foundation s database of more than 500,000…
ContractsProf Blog
Your Smart TV May Be Engaged in Intelligence Work
Back in 2013, we mused about the seeming disconnect between public outrage at NSA data mining and the lack of comparable outrage with respect to private data mining. Nancy Kim…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Can you quit Facebook?
Yesterday a lawyer friend of mine - on Facebook and in real life - announced she was shutting down her Facebook account for good. Like others, she could not accept…
Privacy and Cybersecurity
Google Read Your Emails And Doesn’t Want You Know About It
Google is facing a class action lawsuit worth trillions of dollars for spying on Gmail accounts, and it's trying really hard not to let people know about it. In the…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
Katz on a Hot Tin Roof: The Reasonable Expectation of Privacy Doctrine is Rudderless in the Digital Age, Unless Congress Continually Resets the Privacy Bar
The title of this post comes from this recent paper by Professor Charles E. MacLean arguing that Congress ought to take action to ensure that the reasonable expectation of privacy…
Class Action Lawsuit Defense
Zip Code Cases Alive and Well – Bed Bath & Beyond and Guitar Center Hit with Putative Class Actions
In March, we blogged about Tyler v. Michaels Stores, a recent Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling, holding that zip codes are personally identifiable information and disavowing data mining by zip code.…
The Right Coast
Review & Outlook: Thank You for Data-Mining – WSJ.com
The outrage this time seems to stem from the fact that the government is widely collecting call records, not merely those associated with a particular suspect or group. But this…