legal ethics – Technology Liberation Front https://techliberation.com Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:53:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 6772528 Courts Confront Changing Attitudes towards Privacy https://techliberation.com/2009/09/14/courts-confront-changing-attitudes-towards-privacy/ https://techliberation.com/2009/09/14/courts-confront-changing-attitudes-towards-privacy/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:53:47 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=21431

Finally, the courts are starting to take notice of the growing ease with which we all share information online: “Twenty-somethings have a much-reduced sense of personal privacy,” as an NYU law professor put it. Unfortunately, this slow realization of the utterly obvious is happening in the narrow area of legal ethics: Courts are punishing young lawyers who say unkind things about the court on social networking sites or say something inconsistent with what they’ve told the court. It’s a must-read for all young lawyers!

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