Kelly Dame reports on case in Michigan: The parents of a Midland Public Schools student have sued the district and two employees in federal court, alleging their right to privacy under the First Amendment has been violated. Michael and Sandra Reardon filed suit against the district, H.H. Dow High counselor Kurt Faust and school employee…
Category: Court
S. Korean police bring charges against Google for illegally collecting private info
Yang Lina reports: The South Korean police said on Thursday that they have filed charges against the global Internet giant, Google Inc. for its allegedly collecting private information, in violation of Internet privacy laws here. The Google’s office in Seoul was raided by local police in August on suspicion of its illicitly collecting personal information…
Court Rejects Claim of a First Amendment Right to Audio-Record Police Officers
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…
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…