Privacy & Security Law Report: Index-Summary

VERMONT

– Data mining of prescription information, state ban upheld after commercial speech analysis (D. Vt.), 623; injunction denied pending appeal, 873
– Metadata embedded in electronic documents, searching documents not forbidden (Vt. Bar Ass'n Prof'l Responsibility Section), 1434

VETERANS

See ARMED SERVICES

VIDEO PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT

– Facebook Beacon program

– – Blockbuster cannot compel arbitration when contract illusory and unenforceable (N.D. Tex.), 626
– – Shut down of program agreed to in class action settlement (N.D. Cal.), 1380; court gives preliminary approval of deal, 1561

VIDEOTAPING

– Internet posting

See INTERNET

– Surveillance

See SURVEILLANCE

VIETNAM

– Privacy bill update, 1239

VIRGINIA

– Computer Crimes Act, no malicious prosecution for spying on coworkers (W.D Va.), In Brief, 1313
– Data breach notification, bill would add health data to breach law, 256; amendment fails, 507
– Data breaches

– – AOL research database, most of class must file in Va. (9th Cir.), In Brief, 210
– – Dangerous drug prescription reporting system data allegedly held for ransom, 751; Va. sending breach notices over exposure of SSNs, 836

– Social security numbers, injunction expanded protecting advocate's posting of officials' SSNs to protest posting of numbers in land records (E.D. Va.), 833
– Spam

– – Commercial limitation and new circumvention provisions proposed, 179
– – Criminal state law unconstitutionally overbroad (U.S., rev den), 531; In Brief, 539

VIRUSES

– Electric grid, industry group not aware of cyberattacks yet, Thompson (D-Miss) plans legislation, 557
– Health data theft, Alberta privacy agency probing attack, 1032

VISAS

See TRAVEL DOCUMENTS

VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL (VOIP)

– Wiretapping, EU organized crime body to examine legal and technical issues, 341; Eurojust corrects statement on Skype cooperation, In Brief, 407

VOTING

– Campaign finance violations, FEC to reinstate staff reports disclosure policy, In Brief, 1619
– Canada, security problems lead list of privacy deficit examples, auditors say, 311
– Cerved unable to use tax and voting records mistakenly posted on Italian government website, 170
– Ga. requires photo ID (U.S., rev den), In Brief, 882
– Presidential transition

See GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS