Yikes. I never posted an important news development. Declan McCullagh reported this on March 25: Attorneys representing WikiLeaks volunteers today asked a Virginia judge to overturn an earlier ruling and bar the U.S. Department of Justice from gaining access to their clients’ Twitter accounts. The appeal, which was expected, seeks to throw out a magistrate…
Category: Court
Ca: Breach of privacy case holds lessons for IT departments
Kathleen Lau reports: IT managers should heed the court ruling that found it to be a breach of privacy when police copied an employee’s hard drive without a warrant, even if child pornography was found. Why there must be a balance between corporate ownership and legal searching. An Ontario court judgment last week, which found…
Significant Test Case in Seattle on Lawfulness of Ex Ante Search Limitations in Computer Warrants
Orin Kerr writes: In a recent article, Ex Ante Regulation of Computer Search and Seizure, 96 Va. L. Rev. 1241 (2010), I pointed out a newly emerging practice of some federal magistrate judges in computer search cases. When the government applies for warrants to search for and seize computers, some judges are rejecting the applications —…
IL: Directing driver to roll up windows and turn blower on high was not a “search”; a case of first impression [coming out wrong]
I’m glad that John Wesley Hall has blogged about an Illinois Supreme Court decision on dog sniff set-ups that I had mentioned on this blog last week. The case is People v. Bartelt and I wrote: After reading the opinion, I do not see how this set-up should be viewed as lawful. And if it doesn’t…