ArchiveSeptember 2013

Questions on Google lawsuit post

A couple questions in the previous discussion thread about the Google privacy case. Both concern permission granted to Google to scan emails. Google’s stance about this is fairly simple. Gmail users give explicit permission for their mail to be scanned. People who send mail to Gmail users give implicit permission for their mail to be scanned. The plaintiff’s lawyers are alleging that...

No expectation of privacy, says Google

I spent yesterday afternoon in Judge Koh’s courtroom listening to arguments on whether or not the class action suit against Google based on their scanning of emails for advertising purposes can go forward. This is the case that made news a few weeks ago because Google stated in their brief that users have “no expectation of privacy” in using online services. That does appear to...

Patent trolling, meet RPost

Yesterday I mentioned Ubicomm and their patent trolling based on an ancient Xerox patent they acquired earlier this year. I think the mere fact that Xerox sold the patent says all we need to know about how applicable it is. The other patent troll in the email space right now is RPost. Steve did a blog post about RPost patent trolling about a year ago. This summer, RPost’s legal team started...

Patent trolling

I’ve recently become aware of activity from a couple patent trolls in the email space. One is UbiCommLLC. They appear to be suing the Internet for violating a patent they acquired from Xerox. The lawsuit claim is that shopping cart abandonment emails violate a patent they own. I did a little reading on this recently. UbiComm LLC formed itself in January of this year and acquired a Xerox...

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