The Canadian Press reports: The Supreme Court of Canada will decide if a Vancouver judge was right to throw out a law which allows police to use wiretaps without a warrant in an emergency. The case involves six men convicted last April in the 2006 kidnapping and ransom of a drug trafficker and two other…
Category: Court
AU: Girl at centre of St Kilda nude photos scandal to hand over photos to Federal Court
The girl at the centre of St Kilda photo scandal has agreed to hand over all the pictures she has to the court and destroy any other copies in her possession. At a Federal Court hearing this afternoon the girl was instructed to put the photos on a USB stick and hand them to the…
Judge issues permanent injunction against DA, Weld sheriff in Operation Number Games
Nate A. Miller reports: A Larimer District Court judge has put a formal end to efforts on the part of Weld District Attorney Ken Buck and Weld County Sheriff John Cooke to crack down on illegal immigration and identity theft using records from a Greeley tax preparer. In a decision Tuesday, District Judge Stephen Schapanski…
Court Finds NebuAd Users Gave Valid Consent to Monitoring
Winston Maxwell writes: In 2008, when several network operators began experiments with behavioral advertising firms NebuAd and Phorm, privacy advocates cried foul, arguing that network operators should never be allowed to monitor traffic for advertising purposes because the threats to privacy are too great. […] One of the telecom operators who experimented with NebuAd in…