Ed Hasbrouck writes: Where has your PNR data gone? The U.S. government has filed its initial answer to my lawsuit against U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for illegally withholding records of its travel surveillance system, and an initial procedural hearing in the case has been scheduled for Thursday, January 6, 2011, at 10 a.m. in San Francisco. The answer filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in…
Category: Court
MA: Junk-fax suit settled; Olde Stone Land Survey to pay $1.3 million
Donna Goodison reports: It’s been 18 years since federal law banned “junk faxes,” but that hasn’t stopped companies from continuing to clog fax machines with unsolicited pitches. And under a proposed settlement, Lakeville’s Olde Stone Land Survey Co. will pay $1.3 million to end a class-action lawsuit alleging it sent tens of thousands of faxes…
Ca: Credit rating agency dinged $5,000 for privacy breach
Tonda MacCharles reports: In a judicial first, a federal court judge has ordered TransUnion of Canada Inc. to pay $5,000 in damages to a Calgary man whose loan application was turned down after another individual’s credit history was wrongly passed onto the bank. Federal Court Justice Russel Zinn found the privacy breach and repeated failures…
Article: The Fourth Amendment and the Brave New World of Online Social Networking
FourthAmendment.com points us to a new law review article: The Fourth Amendment and the Brave New World of Online Social Networking by Nathan Petrashek, 93 Marq. L. Rev. 1495 (2010). From the introduction: During a recent visit to the University of Florida Levin College of Law, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas was asked whether he believed the Court has…