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…
Category: Court
Privacy Group Seeks Public Release of Thousands of Body-Scan Images of Air Travelers
Orin Kerr seems to think that EPIC’s FOIA suit to produce body scanner images is a bit incompatible respecting privacy: I realize that the goal of the public release of thousands of images is to influence public opinion on the use of body-scanners. I gather the idea is that by forcing the government to disclose…
Woman whose breasts exposed in pat-down settles with TSA
A woman who claims Transportation Security Administration officials exposed her breasts during a pat-down in 2008 will receive compensation from the agency, the Daily Mail reported. Lynsie Murley, 24, of Amarillo, Texas, filed a lawsuit against the TSA last year, accusing the agency of negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The incident, which occurred…
Predator Pleads Guilty to Hacking Hundreds of E-Mail Accounts
A press release from the California Attorney General’s Office: A Citrus Heights computer hacker pleaded guilty to seven felony charges for breaking into hundreds of women’s e-mail accounts, the sort of identity theft crime that Californians should take steps to protect themselves against, according to Attorney General Kamala D. Harris. “This case highlights the fact…