Eugene Volokh mentions a ruling in ACLU v. Alvarez (N.D. Jan. 10, 2011) that will probably disappoint many of this blog’s readers. Here’s a snippet of the opinion: To assist in deterring and detecting police misconduct, the ACLU has developed a program to “audio record police officers, without the consent of the officers, when (a) the…
Category: Court
Lee Harvey Oswald’s Brother Sues Funeral Home and Auction House for Selling the Assassin’s Casket
I hadn’t posted the beginning of this story to PogoWasRight.org because it wasn’t really privacy-related at the time, but last month I read a news story about how Lee Harvey Oswald’s original coffin was to be auctioned off. Now, it seems, Lee Harvey Oswald’s brother has filed a lawsuit, claiming, among other things, privacy…
Employee Privacy Gains in the United States
Boris Segalis writes: 2010 arguably was a breakout year for consumer privacy in the U.S., but the year also brought about significant changes to the legal landscape of employee privacy. Federal and state court decisions, state legislation and agency actions suggest that the U.S. may be moving towards a greater level of privacy protection for…
Judge convicts Saskatchewan woman who wouldn’t fill in long-form census
Following a bitter debate this past summer in which the federal government said it didn’t want people threatened with jail time for refusing to answer the long-form census, a Saskatoon woman was found guilty Thursday of doing just that. “I’m stunned,” Sandra Finley said outside Saskatoon provincial court immediately after the verdict. Finley, who is…