I know that we’ve talked for years about the amount of information that people give out freely via social media platforms, but I haven’t seen any video that’s better than Jack Vale’s Social Experiment in showing strangers how much he can know about them just by reviewing their social media posts.
For those Fall Associates,
Puzzle me this: If a lawyer conversed with a client in front of a law enforcement representative, would the conversation be privileged?
Answer: No.
Conversations held in the presence of any third party, let alone one representing the government, would constitute a waiver of privilege.
Previously on 3Geeks (and perhaps too many times) we have
[Guest Blogger Eric Hunter]
Two different NYT stories caused me to start thinking about crowdsourcing: World War II Mystery Solved in a Few Hours and Identifying Looters and Lovers in Vancouver’s Riot. In both instances, photos were posted online to help identify people who held themselves out in a public manner and whose actions were memorialized by photos.
[Guest Blogger Eric Hunter]
I’ve been watching a disturbing trend. More and more people are laconically letting the likes of Facebook, Google, Amazon, Twitter and FourSquare taking over their lives.
I admit. I am as much a victim, perhaps even more of a victim, than you are.
My excuse is that it’s my job.
But what about the rest
There have been a couple of very interesting opinions coming out of New York recently. I’ll lay out the decisions below, but my reading of these decisions tells me that if you’re a lawyer in New York, you should suggest to your clients that they shutdown their Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, or any other social media
That was the lyric of the Some Girls’ song I was listening to while I just happened to be reading how Google’s boss, Eric Schmidt, suggested that someday young people will have to change their actual identities to escape their online identities. Schmidt, like a lot of other “non-young people”, seem to think that young
I played with Foursquare over the long Christmas weekend and will continue to do so through out this week. I am determined to unlock its B-2-B potential. For the uninitiated, Foursquare was started by five New Yorkers who wanted to keep tabs on their bar-hopping friends. It combines friend-finding and gaming capabilities. Launched in February