Two lawsuits in federal court in California that challenge the way a popular online data-mining company does business could give consumers more privacy protection from firms that sell personal information on the Web. In the most recent complaint, filed last week in the Central District of California, plaintiff Thomas Robins alleged that Spokeo Inc. violated…
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Muslims Say FBI Snitch Dealt Drugs, Fomented Violence & Snooped on Sex
Bridget Freeland reports: In a federal class action, Muslims claim the FBI hired an “agent provocateur” to infiltrate mosques and “indiscriminately collect personal information on hundreds and perhaps thousands of innocent Muslim Americans in Southern California.” The class claims the agents had their snitch provide illegal drugs to Muslims and snoop on their sex lives,…
Tech Snooper Accused of Privacy Invasion
Bridget Freeland reports: A man sued a technology company for privacy invasion, claiming it intercepted his email exchanges with a friend who was estranged from her husband, after the husband hired it to install the electronic snooping program on the woman’s laptop. The man claims that Awareness Technologies’ privacy invasion was criminal. Alex Watkins sued…
The Supreme Court Giveth and the Supreme Court Taketh Away: The Century of Fourth Amendment ‘Search and Seizure’ Doctrine
An article by Thomas Y. Davies, University of Tennessee College of Law, “The Supreme Court Giveth and the Supreme Court Taketh Away: The Century of Fourth Amendment ‘Search and Seizure’ Doctrine ,” appeared in Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, Vol. 100, No. 3, pp. 933-1041, 2010. Abstract: This article presents a legal-realist account of…