Eriq Gardner reports: Netflix is contending with a new class action lawsuit that alleges the streaming service violates customer privacy by retaining viewing and payment records even after a customer cancels his or her service. Peter Comstock, a Virginia resident, filed the proposed class action last week in U.S. District Court in California on behalf…
Category: Court
Wikileaks investigation produces novel ECPA standing decision
Jennifer Granick comments on the recent ruling that Twitter users had no standing to challenge the DOJ’s 2703(d) order to compel Twitter to produce non-content records of some individuals who have been associated with WikiLeaks: […] The Court’s reliance on Section 2704 to find no standing is interesting. Although Section 2704(b)(1) is titled “Customer Challenges,”…
Social Media Misbehavior by Jurors Afflicts Trial Process
Ken Strutin, director of legal information services at the New York State Defenders Association. writes: Most people called to serve on grand or petit juries regularly use the internet to transact business, conduct research and carry out daily activities. And social media have become lifelines to networking with friends, families and co-workers. Unfortunately, a growing…
TX3: No REP in a LEO’s thumb drive left in a police station computer
From FourthAmendment.com: Defendant police officer had no reasonable expectation in a thumb drive that he left attached to a computer at the police station that had no identifying marks on it and was not encypted. He stored police reports on it. When the thumb drive was found in the computer, it was opened by another to…