Recently, I attended the University of Minnesota’s celebration of “40 Years of Gopher Justice,” an event honoring the institution’s University Student Legal Service (“USLS”), a non-profit organization that provides UMN students with free legal services. The celebration included a panel on a contemporary topic in student advocacy: “revenge porn.” The topic isn’t relevant
Right of Privacy
Mark Zuckerberg Means What?
This billboard ad has been running in the Twin Cities for a while now, promoting a local car dealership who is very proud of its website:
Does anyone seriously believe that Mark Zuckerberg — the twenty-seven year old president, chief executive officer, and co-creator of the Facebook social networking site — is jealous of the morries.com…
Right Royal, Protecting a Royal (To-Be’s) Name
–Susan Perera, Attorney
Just across the pond, the UK has been aflutter with the news of the royal engagement of Prince William to Kate Middleton since the story broke back in November.
As with many high profile events, this one has spurred some creative ways to profit from Kate’s newly elevated status. One area of…
Really, Facebook? Really?
Hot on the heels of Dan Kelly’s prediction of the eventual fall of social networking sites, it seems that Facebook has embroiled itself in another controversy. The upshot of the most recent story is that Facebook is essentially using its power of cyber eminent domain to sieze and use photos posted by users for…