KDKA in Pennsylvania reports: More than 1,100 registered sex offenders live and work in Allegheny County and 43 of them are now wearing monitoring devices as a condition of their parole. District Attorney Stephen Zappala blames the nature of the crime for the need to better track these offenders. “Because the psychology of the crime…
Category: Court
WikiLeaks Twitter spying may break EU privacy law
The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) will today pose an oral question to the European Commission, seeking clarification from the US on a subpoena demanding the micro-blogging site hand over users’ account details. ALDE members want to know why US investigators demanded the information when they hadn’t yet provided evidence that any crime…
EU: Mosley takes privacy legal battle to Europe
Andy McSmith reports: Max Mosley, the former president of Formula One, was in a European court yesterday hoping to secure a new law barring newspapers from publishing details of people’s private lives without forewarning. Mr Mosley is asking the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to make it illegal for a newspaper to publish…
Charges Dropped Against Airport Stripper
Associated Press reports: A man who stripped to his underwear at a Richmond International Airport checkpoint to protest security procedures won’t face a criminal charge. Media outlets report that a disorderly conduct charge against 21-year-old Aaron Tobey of Charlottesville was dropped Monday following a hearing in Henrico General District Court. Read more on MSNBC.