EFF has issued the following statement in response to today’s developments: A federal magistrate judge in Virginia ruled today that the government can collect the private records of three Twitter users as part of its investigation related to WikiLeaks, and that those users and the public can be prevented from seeing some of the documents…
Category: Court
BREAKING: Twitter must give user info in Wikileaks probe (updated)
Matthew Barakat of AP reports that a federal magistrate has ruled that prosecutors can demand the Twitter account information of certain users in their criminal probe into the disclosure of classified documents on WikiLeaks. Will have more on this later after EFF and the ACLU have time to issue statements. Small update: Emptywheel has a…
School employees violated student’s constitutional right to privacy by releasing poorly-redacted psychiatric evaluation to class of 11-graders
L.S. v. Mount Olive Bd. of Educ., No. 09-3052 (D.N.J. Feb. 25, 2011) 2011wl677490 Abstract: A federal district court in New Jersey has decided that a social worker and special education instructor employed by the school board are liable for violating a high school student’s federal and state constitutional right to privacy. After dismissing claims…
Case Law: MNB v News Group Newspapers – an extended privacy injunction
Charlotte Harris writes: On 9 March 2011, in the case of MNB v News Group Newspapers ([2011] EWHC 528 (QB)) Mrs Justice Sharp granted a privacy injunction to restrain the publication of a range of information which tended to identify the claimant and which related to the subject matter of the action. This information had been…