Wired recently reported on a search warrant the FBI served on Google last year to retrieve documents stored on the Google Docs “cloud” word-processing service, in an investigation of a company named Pulse Marketing. Pulse Marketing allegedly sent millions of spam emails promoting and offering to sell acai berry, and had established a system to create multiple Yahoo and Gmail email addresses to send the spam.
The issue: whether Pulse Marketing violated 18 U.S.C. § 1037, which prohibits using false information to create multiple fake domains or email addresses, and using those domains and addresses …

Sheheryar T. Sardar and Benish A. Shah discuss Social Media usage and risks for corporations, and the absolute need for corporate social media policies.
Social Media is akin to the e-mail era:  it is so convenient that it will not fade away and social media law must follow the pace of social media. The varying forms of social media communication may differ in popularity on and off, but the existence of the social media mediums must become of paramount concern to businesses as they move forward.  Effective corporate communication must incorporate social media, …