WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR E-MAIL AFTER YOU DIE? When a young Marine died in Iraq and his parents wanted to
retrieve his e-mail as a memorial to him, they came up against the
privacy policy of the Internet service provider (ISP), which declined
to provide the information. Ultimately, a probate court ordered that
the parents be allowed to retrieve the e-mails. Read More.
BEWARE OF FAKE CHECKS:
You have responded to a work-at-home offer in which you will
be an account manager for a foreign company, depositing checks from its
U.S. customers. It seems simple: You deposit the checks, take your pay
out of them, and send the remainder to the foreign company. Or . . .
you have reason to believe you have won a sweepstakes or lottery prize.
You receive a check for your winnings, with instructions to cash it,
then return a portion of the money to cover taxes or other fees. Or . .
. having sold something through a newspaper ad or online, you receive a
check for much more than the purchase price. Calling it an accounting
error, the buyer apologizes for the mistake and asks that you return
the excess amount. Read More.
DOES THE ADA APPLY TO WEBSITES?
Recently a federal trial court became the first court to
find that a commercial website must be accessible to the disabled, and
to blind customers in particular, because of the prohibition against
disability discrimination by places of public accommodation contained
in the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Whether the retailer
would, in fact, be liable on the particular facts of the case remained
to be decided, but the court declined to dismiss the class action
complaint. Read More.
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