Balough
December 23, 2013
Mobile devices made by HTC America, Inc. contain serious security flaws, which allow the phones to send their own text messages, send personally identifiable information to third parties, and even activate the microphone to listen to conversations, according to a proposed HTC America consent decree with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The FTC’s complaint against HTC America noted that […]
Balough
December 16, 2013
Text messages require the same authentication as other documents before they can be used as evidence, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania ruled. Noting that it was a case of “first impression,” the court found that text messages are intrinsic to the cell phones on which they are stored and “identifying information is contained in the […]
Balough
December 15, 2013
A police officer who used a city-issued pager to send private, sometimes sexually explicit, text messages has no right of privacy in the messages’ content, according to the U.S. Supreme Court. However, the Court’s opinion stopped short of making a general pronouncement as to what privacy rights may exist before the role of electronic communications […]
