Thom Weidlich reports: News Corp. (NWSA)’s Myspace unit was accused in a lawsuit of giving data to aggregators that are used to associate members by name with their Internet browsing history without their consent. Myspace shares the data with aggregators despite telling members they can restrict access to their information, according to the complaint filed…
Category: Court
FL Sup. Ct: Dog sniff of home violates Fourth Amendment
So no sooner than I post a link to an article of how courts have expanded dog sniffs (drugs) to the home, than John Wesley Hall of FourthAmendment.com points me to a decision overturning some previous rulings: The Florida Supreme Court held today that a dog sniff in the home violates the Fourth Amendment. The…
Court denies preliminary injunction against new TSA screening procedures
Via FourthAmendment.com, word that the Southern District of Florida has denied a preliminary injunction against the new TSA screening procedures. The court found that the plaintiff was unlikely to succeed on the merits of his Fourth Amendment claim. The case is Corbett v. United States, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 38531 (S.D. Fla. March 1, 2011)….
Article: Disentangling Administrative Searches
Columbia Law Review (2011, vol. 111; 254-312) Disentangling Administrative Searches Eve Brensike Primus Abstract: Everyone who has been screened at an international border, scanned by an airport metal detector, or drug tested for public employment has been subjected to an administrative search. Since September 11th, the government has increasingly invoked the administrative search exception to…