Balough Co-Authors Geolocational Privacy Article for ABA

Richard C. Balough has co-authored an article that explores how courts address privacy considerations for geolocational technologies, including how courts are beginning to place additional limits on the use of location-tracking technology.

The article, Business Law Today_ Privacy Considerations Limit Geolocation Technologies appears in the April 2012 issue of the online Business Law Today, published by the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section.

In the article Mr. Balough, and his co-author, Ted Claypoole, discuss how courts are drawing lines that define the degree to which Americans may be tracked, followed, and surveilled using cost-effective location-reporting devices.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Jones v. United States explored in a tangential way the privacy concerns raised by the use of geolocational tracking devices.  From the decision, it is clear that privacy issues relating to geolocational tracking will continue to be on the court’s agenda in future cases.

Mr. Balough and Mr. Claypoole are the co-chairs of the mCommerce subcommittee of the ABA’s Cyberspace Law Committee.