Jose Martinez reports: A Manhattan judge ruled Monday that the Department of Education can release the names and job rankings of more than 12,000 public school teachers. The decision by Justice Cynthia Kern is a blow to the United Federation of Teachers, which tried to block the DOE from making the internal ratings system public….
Category: Court
Fifth Circuit Permits Warrantless Government Searches Based on Previous Private Search Not Known To Police
Orin Kerr writes: Last week the Fifth Circuit handed down a significant decision on the “private search” doctrine in Fourth Amendment law, United States v. Oliver. Oliver permits warrantless searches under the private search doctrine even when the police who conducted the search didn’t know about the private search. I don’t think the private search doctrine can…
Lawsuits Allege Apple Applications Sent Personal Information to Third Parties
In late December 2010, consumers filed two class action lawsuits against Apple Inc., claiming that several applications they downloaded from Apple’s App Store sent their personal information to third parties without their consent. Specifically, the consumers claim that Apple allowed third party advertising networks to follow user activity through the Unique Device Identifiers that Apple…
IP addresses and user identification in the WikiLeaks case
Melissa Ngo comments on the DOJ’s attempt to get the IP addresses of Twitter users involved in the WikiLeaks investigation: […] Web sites, such as Twitter, can easily collect IP addresses. The best protection would be for the web sites to expunge the data after a short period, as news site Indymedia.us showed in a 2009 case….