Jamie Satterfield reports: When it came to the extraordinary move to paralyze an Anderson County man to search his body for drugs, this doctor didn’t hesitate. “That exam was going to occur with or without his consent,” Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge Dr. Michael LaPaglia testified Tuesday in U.S. District Court. Now, Felix Booker’s…
Category: Court
Es: Conflict between class action and protection
Berta Baz reports: The most appropriate model to reconcile collective action and data protection was that implemented by Ausbanc with the class-action suit against Telefonica Extremadura. A Madrid court has caused a dispute over the settlement of a collective action to protect the personal data of customers. This court ordered BBVA President Francisco González to…
Federal Judge Blasts NYPD Snoops for Filing ‘Meaningless Litigation’
Adam Klasfeld reports on a case that started with my generation and continues and continues and continues…. A federal judge denied the New York City Police Department’s attempt to dismiss a landmark 1971 class action limiting its surveillance of private citizens. And, in the case originally brought by Abbie Hoffman, Senior U.S. District Judge Charles…
Challenge to the new Dutch passport fingerprint database rejected by The Hague [corrected]
A Dutch reader sent me some disheartening news from his country today. It appears that a challenge to a law requiring all Dutch citizens provide their fingerprints for passports was rejected by The Hague. The fingerprints are to be maintained in a centralized registry, and privacy advocates have raised concerns about privacy, the security of…