As a follow-up to a lawsuit filed several years by a Pennsylvania couple who claimed Google trespassed on their property in taking pictures for Street View, Joe Mandak of AP reports: Google Inc. has acknowledged that it trespassed when it took a photo of a Pittsburgh-area house for its Street View service, but will pay…
Category: Court
OH12 permits GPS without a warrant under Fourth Amendment rejecting Weaver and Jackson and ignoring Maynard
Sometimes I get a mental image of someone gritting their teeth while they’re typing. John Wesley Hall Jr. writes: In a GPS case, where all the right things were argued, Ohio’s 12th District Court of Appeals rejects NY’s Weaver (2009) and Washington’s Jackson (2003) because the Ohio Supreme Court says that the state constitution is to be…
Harvard Law Students Sue TSA
Jenny Paul and Joey Seiler report: Two Harvard Law students have filed a federal lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration that claims the use of “nude body scanners” and new enhanced pat-down techniques at airport security checkpoints are unconstitutional. Jeffrey Redfern ’12 and Anant Pradhan ’12 filed the lawsuit Monday in the District Court of…
Facebook, Zynga And Data Broker Rapleaf Named In Privacy Lawsuit
Wendy Davis reports: A Virginia resident has sued data broker Rapleaf, as well as Facebook and game developer Zynga, for violating users’ privacy by allegedly sending their names and other personal information to advertisers. “Defendants inappropriately and unlawfully transmitted sensitive personally identifiable information, including Facebook User IDs … and real names, to third parties,” Barbara…