A press release from interclick: interclick, inc. announced today that claims alleging violation of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) have been dropped against the Company as part of ongoing legal litigation. In December of 2010, Sonal Bose filed a lawsuit, seeking class action status, against interclick, Inc. claiming, among other things, that interclick’s online…
Category: Court
IL: State high court rules on drug sniffs
Benjamin Yount reports: It may be a little easier for police officers in Illinois to find drugs after the Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday OK’d drug sniff “set-ups”. The opinion in People v. Bartelt was one of several handed down Thursday by the Illinois Supreme Court. The Bartelt case centers on a 2006 traffic stop…
Hard drive search warrants: should there be any limits?
Matthew Lasar writes: Here’s the latest hot debate among Fourth Amendment scholars: when magistrate judges issue search warrants on computers, should those warrants limit where in the machine’s directory system the police may look, or for how long they can scan the drive? Professor Orin Kerr of George Washington Law School says no (PDF). Assistant Professor…
EP demands personal data protection in US WikiLeaks investigation
On 23 March MEPs asked the Commission and the Council about the implications for EU citizens of a US court order obliging Twitter to hand over personal data, messages and communications of users considered to be related to WikiLeaks. What personal data protection rights do EU-based Twitter users have in such cases? Read more on…