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…
Category: Court
U. of Ill. will appeal ruling that it must release names of applicants in admissions scandal
The Associated Press is reporting that the University of Illinois does plan to appeal a federal court order to release the names of students involved in an admissions scandal and filed for a stay on the judge’s order.
Privacy expert seeks judicial review to overturn BT-Phorm decision
Dinah Greek reports: Alex Hanff of Privacy International has begun legal steps to instigate a judicial review into the Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS) decision not to prosecute BT for covert use of Phorm’s Webwise software. The secret trials of the behavioural monitoring software run by BT in 2006 and 2007, breached the Regulation of Investigatory Powers…
UK: Anonymized “privacy injunction” hearings – January to March 2011
The press has recently returned to the theme of evils of the privacy injunction protecting the unsavoury behaviour of the rich and famous. Last week’s round up drew attention to articles in the “Daily Mail” and “The Times”. The former had a second piece “Revealed: 30 ‘superinjunction’ gagging orders won by rich and famous in…