Inforrm’s Blog provides a transcript of Lord Pannick’s Speech to the Court of Human Rights in the case brought by former Formula One president Max Mosley. Mosley’s sex life become front-page fodder and subjected him to embarrassment and ridicule. Rather than slinking away, Mosley has fought to get greater recognition for a right to privacy….
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Article: Is the Fourth Amendment Relevant in a Technological Age?
Via FourthAmendment.com, a new article available on SSRN: Is the Fourth Amendment Relevant in a Technological Age? Christopher Slobogin Vanderbilt Law School January 4, 2011 Abstract: This work will be a chapter in a forthcoming book in The Future of the Constitution series, edited by Jeffrey Rosen and Benjamin Wittes and published by the Brookings…
Man who hacked Palin’s email gets jail, not halfway house
A man who broke into Sarah Palin’s e-mail has been imprisoned – despite being told he might be spared jail. David Kernell, 23, was found guilty last year of illegally accessing Mrs Palin’s e-mail during the 2008 presidential campaign. At the time, a judge suggested he should serve his year-long sentence in a halfway house….
More on the Twitter 2703(d) order
Earlier this week, I blogged about the order Twitter received to produce non-content information concerning the accounts of individuals who have been associated with WikiLeaks and the DOJ’s investigation into leaked files. In the blog entry, I noted the confusing and varying interpretations of the scope of the order: Last night, WikiLeaks tweeted: WARNING all 637,000…