Materials accompanying discussion with Chris Kelly over Internet Policy at the IP and the Internet Conference.
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1. Ethical and Privacy Challenges in Internet Policy Q&A
with Chris Kelly
2. Some Thoughts on the Internet The Internet is merely a
reection of who we are as a society; and thus is a tool for good
and for bad and a source of great volumes of information and
disinformation alike. --Abraham Lincoln
3. Privacy
4. Ethics 1: Ensure Faith in Business "One of the most
important lessons we can learn from an examination of economic life
is that a nations well being as well as its ability to compete, is
conditioned by a single, pervasive cultural characteristic: the
level of trust inherent in the society."
5. Ethics 2 Protect Others From Harm
6. Ethics 3 Law as a Normative Statement of Values
7. About CHRIS KELLY Chris Kelly is the founder of Kelly
Investments and part owner of the Sacramento Kings. He served in
the Clinton Administration before going on to become Facebooks
Chief Privacy Ocer and Director of Global Policy. He was a
candidate for California Attorney General in 2010 and led the ght
for Californias Proposition 35 ghting sex tracking. BENNET KELLEY
Bennet Kelley is the founder of the Internet Law Center in Santa
Monica and host of Cyber Law and Business Report.
8. Ethical and Privacy Challenges in Internet Policy Appendix
Bennet Kelley
9. Honest Abe 2.0 ABA Model Rule 4.1(a) "In the course of
representing a client a lawyer shall not knowingly: (a) make a
false statement of material fact or law to a third person. . . ABA
Model Rule 8.4(c) Prohibits conduct involving dishonesty, fraud,
deceit or misrepresentation. California Business & Professions
Code Section 6106 The commission of any act involving moral
turpitude, dishonesty or corruption, whether the act is committed
in the course of his relations as an attorney or otherwise, and
whether the act is a felony or misdemeanor or not, constitutes a
cause for disbarment or suspension. Vega v. Jones, Day, Reavis
& Pogue 121 Cal.App.4th 282, 291-294 (2004). A lawyer may not
knowingly make false statements of material fact to a third
party.
10. SDCBA Legal Ethics Opinion 2011-2 (Adopted by the San Diego
County Bar Legal Ethics Committee May 24, 2011.) FACTUAL SCENARIO
Attorney is representing Client, a plainti former employee in a
wrongful discharge action. While the matter is in its early stages,
Attorney has by now received former employers answer to the
complaint and therefore knows that the former employer is
represented by counsel and who that counsel is. Attorney obtained
from Client a list of all of Clients former employers employees.
Attorney sends out a friending1 request to two high-ranking company
employees whom Client has identied as being dissatised with the
employer and therefore likely to make disparaging comments about
the employer on their social media page. The friend request gives
only Attorneys name. Attorney is concerned that those employees,
out of concern for their jobs, may not be as forthcoming with their
opinions in depositions and intends to use any relevant information
he obtains from these social media sites to advance the interests
of Client in the litigation. QUESTION PRESENTED Has Attorney
violated his ethical obligations under the California Rules of
Professional Conduct, the State Bar Act, or case law addressing the
ethical obligations of attorneys?
11. SDCBA Legal Ethics Opinion 2011-2 (Adopted by the San Diego
County Bar Legal Ethics Committee May 24, 2011.) Rule 2-100(A)
While representing a client, a member shall not communicate
directly or indirectly about the subject of the representation with
a party the member knows to be represented by another lawyer in the
matter, unless the member has the consent of the other lawyer.
Contact Violates Rule 2-100(A) But to obtain access to restricted
information on a Facebook page, the attorney must make a request to
a represented party outside of the actual or virtual presence of
defense counsel. And for purposes of Rule 2-100, that motivated
communication with the represented party makes all the dierence.
Contact Also Constitutes Deception But is it impermissible
deception to seek to friend a witness without disclosing the
purpose of the friend request, even if the witness is not a
represented party and thus, as set forth above, subject to the
prohibition on ex parte contact? We believe that it is.
12. NSA & Privacy While the scope of and/or legality of
methods used as part of the NSA surveillance programs are still
being determined and we oer no opinion on this point. In general,
attorneys must be mindful of the following with respect to advising
potential violations of the law: Rule 3-210 A member shall not
advise the violation of any law, rule, or ruling of a tribunal
unless the member believes in good faith that such law, rule, or
ruling is invalid. A member may take appropriate steps in good
faith to test the validity of any law, rule, or ruling of a
tribunal. Penal Code 31 Persons who "aid and abet . . . [or] have
advised or encouraged" a crime are punishable as principals.
13. HUMAN TRAFFICKING STATISTICS Human tracking exists all over
the United States, but California is California is a hot spot for
domestic and international human tracking because of its large
population, international borders, large economy, extensive ports,
and metropolitan regions. The average entry age of American minors
into the sex trade is 12-14 years old. Many victims are runaway
girls who have already suered sexual abuse as children. California
harbors 3 of FBIs 13 highest child sex tracking areas in the
nation: Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego. Foreign
nationals are also brought into the U.S. as slaves for labor or
commercial sex through force or fraud. The prevalence and anonymity
of the internet has fueled the rapid growth of sex tracking, making
the trade of women and children easier than ever before. REFERENCES
The National Report on Domestic Minor Sex Tracking: Americas
Prostituted Children, Shared Hope International, May 2009. The
Federal Bureau of Investigations Eorts to Combat Crimes Against
Children, Audit Report 09-08, January 2009. Tracking in Persons
Report, U.S. Department of State, June 2011.
14. PROP 35 (CASE Act) Summary CALIFORNIANS AGAINST SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION ACT ("CASE ACT) Increase prison terms for human
trackers Increase nes for human trackers, up to $1.5M to fund
victim services Remove the need to prove force to prosecute sex
tracking of a minor Mandate human tracking training for law
enforcement Make sex trackers register as sex oenders Require that
all sex oenders to disclose internet accounts Prohibits use of
sexual history to impeach or prove criminal liability of tracked
victims
15. Doe v. Harris Case No. 3:12-cv-05713-THE (N.D. Cal.) Case
Nos. 13-15263, 13-15267 (9th Cir.) Challenge to requirement that
sex oenders provide their ISPs and internet identier which is dened
as an electronic mail address, user name, screen name, or similar
identier used for the purpose of Internet forum discussions,
Internet chat room discussions, instant messaging, social
networking, or similar Internet communication. Jan 13, 2013 - Judge
Henderson granted a preliminary injunction: On the current record,
the Court concludes that Plaintis are likely to establish that the
challenged provisions, when combined with the lack of protections
on the informations disclosure and the serious penalty registrants
face if they fail to comply with the reporting requirements, create
too great a chilling eect to pass constitutional muster. While the
government may be able to demonstrate narrow tailoring in
subsequent proceedings, it has not done so here. Accordingly, the
Court concludes that Plaintis are likely to succeed on their First
Amendment free speech claim. Sept 10, 2013 Argued before 9th
Circuit.