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Law Practice

Jun. 20, 2013

Just admit it: privacy is mostly dead

All we have left is some limit on governmental intrusion some of the time.

Timothy D. Reuben

Reuben Mediation

Tim Reuben spent more than 40 years handling complex legal disputes in California's state and federal courts. As the founder and managing partner of Reuben Raucher & Blum in Los Angeles, he has worked on a wide range of matters through jury and bench trials, arbitration, mediation, judicial reference, and settlement conferences across multiple areas of civil law, including commercial, real estate, construction, employment, intellectual property, insurance, professional liability, and unfair competition.

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Recent reports of the U.S. government spying on its own citizens have fueled the debate about the legal limits of privacy. What is worse, technology evolves at a far faster pace than jurisprudence, so that with the widespread proliferation of all the gadgets and cameras and recording devices, less and less can be thought of as private. Today, anyone can look at virtually any location in any major city through Google Maps or other like applications. With the continued development of tech...

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