Joseph Lazzarotti writes: Employers need to exercise care when accessing employees’ e-mails, particularly e-mails on personal e-mail accounts. In Pure Power Boot Camp Inc. v. Warrior Fitness Boot Camp LLC, a non-compete case that turned into a case about the privacy of stored e-mails and violations of the federal Stored Communications Act (SCA), the court held: SCA…
Category: Court
Police DNA retention lawful in spite of human rights court ruling, says NI High Court
Northern Ireland’s High Court of Justice has ruled that police retention of a 14 year old boy’s DNA was not illegal, despite a European Court of Human Rights ruling that the blanket data retention policy conflicts with human rights law. The Court said that it could not follow the ruling from the European Court of…
Seattle man on trial for refusing to show ID to TSA agents
Lindsay Cohen & KOMO Staff report: In November 2009, Phil Mocek was scheduled to board a Seattle-bound plane in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Instead, he wound up in a jail cell, headed for a fight that could prove historic. The Seattle man refused to show TSA officers his ID with his boarding pass, and argued he…
Naperville Woman Seeks Injunction to Prevent ISP from Turning Over Her Data to Voltage Pictures
Dan Campana reports: In a world where a Hollywood film company wants to stop illegal downloading of its movies, Iris Tam just wants to remain unknown. Tam, a Naperville resident, recently filed paperwork asking a DuPage County judge to block her Internet provider—Wide Open West, known as WOW!—from releasing any of her personal information to…