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		<title>Too Much Information - Part II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It may be due to a difficult job market.  Or perhaps it&#8217;s just a sign of the times.  According to one article, however, 83% of recruiters now search the internet for &#8220;digital dirt&#8221; in order to weed out prospective job candidates.  Thus, inappropriate Facebook photos, unbecoming MySpace profiles, vituperative message board postings, controversial political statements, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://battermanlaw.com/blog/2008/07/24/too-much-information-part-ii/</link>
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		<title>Too Much Information</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an intriguing question:  Does the internet make people more stupid or have they always been this stupid but the internet simply showcases it for all to see?  In yet another example of how social networking sites can work to a person&#8217;s detriment, 20 year-old college junior Joshua Lipton attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://battermanlaw.com/blog/2008/07/18/too-much-information/</link>
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		<title>Dell&#8217;s Shell Hell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t help but get a little bit of personal satisfaction out of this story.  It seems that Dell Computers was engaged in a large scale &#8220;shell&#8221; game or &#8220;bait and switch&#8221; scheme in New York.  A New York judge recently found that Dell misled consumers repeatedly by engaging in &#8220;false and deceptive advertising&#8221; of its promotional [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://battermanlaw.com/blog/2008/05/30/dells-shell-hell/</link>
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		<title>A King Without His Treasure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick follow-up to a post I wrote a few weeks ago about &#8220;Spam King&#8221; Sanford Wallace.  Wallace had been defaulted by a federal district court in California in a suit brought by MySpace for running a spamming and phishing scam on the site.
The court recently awarded MySpace $230 million against Wallace in what is apparently [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://battermanlaw.com/blog/2008/05/29/a-king-without-his-treasure/</link>
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		<title>Hitting that &#8220;Send Button&#8221; at Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a new survey by Forrester Research, 41% of large companies (those having at least 20,000 employees) either read or analyze the contents of outbound e-mail.  They&#8217;re either paying other employees to read them or presumably using any number of commercially available software programs to analyze them. 
44% of the companies surveyed investigated a confidential data breach involving e-mail in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://battermanlaw.com/blog/2008/05/24/hitting-that-send-button-at-work/</link>
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		<title>The Long Arm of the Law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s world, where fraud is just a mouse click away, it&#8217;s nice to know that every so often the good guys win.  Three international hackers were indicted by the Department of Justice (&#8221;DOJ&#8221;) last week for trying to steal and sell credit card information from customers of Dave &#38; Buster&#8217;s, the popular restaurant/entertainment chain.
According to the indictment, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://battermanlaw.com/blog/2008/05/18/the-long-arm-of-the-law/</link>
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		<title>No Good Deed . . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s always refreshing to see companies take affirmative steps to try and protect users from malicious programs that can be inadvertently downloaded onto their computers.  Yahoo and McAfee are joining forces to unveil a new security feature designed to warn Yahoo users about potentially dangerous links to software such as adware, spyware, keystroke loggers, and other malicious programs.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://battermanlaw.com/blog/2008/05/12/no-good-deed/</link>
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		<title>Bar the Czar from IP Avatar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a shock.  Lobbyists always get all of the best legislation through.  A House committee passed proposed legislation last week, the &#8220;Pro IP Act,&#8221; which would increase the penalties for illegally copying and distributing  movies and music.  The bill would also create a White House-level position termed an &#8220;Intellectual Property Czar.&#8221;  And therein lies one of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://battermanlaw.com/blog/2008/05/06/bar-the-czar-from-ip-avatar/</link>
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		<title>Money and Handcuffs:  Will Anything Stop Spam?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The short answer:  No.  Spam will continue to be one of the internet&#8217;s most enduring problems.  But it&#8217;s always nice to see a few small victories here and there.  Sanford Wallace, who earned the ignominious title of &#8220;Spam King,&#8221; is in the news once again. 
It seems that Mr. Wallace, in his infinite wisdom, decided to ignore [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://battermanlaw.com/blog/2008/05/01/money-and-handcuffs-will-anything-stop-spam/</link>
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		<title>Winning the Battle for Privacy One State at a Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kudos to the New Jersey Supreme Court.  Last week, the court ruled that ISPs can&#8217;t release personal information about their New Jersey users without a valid subpoena.  The court, in a unanimous 7-0 ruling, found that the New Jersey Constitution gives its residents greater protection against unreasonable searches than the U.S. Constitution does.  In the case before the court, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://battermanlaw.com/blog/2008/04/28/winning-the-battle-for-privacy-one-state-at-a-time/</link>
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