Melissa Fyfe reports: One of the Brumby government’s most vocal critics is taking it to court over what has been described as an ”astounding” breach of her privacy. Jan Beer, who has led the fight against the north-south pipeline, will take her case to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal tomorrow, after conciliation with the…
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CA: Novato Taxi owner takes privacy case to court
Rob Rogers reports: Novato Taxi owner Dan Carlson says he’s ready to battle county and Novato officials in court Monday for the right to keep his employees’ drug test results private. “We didn’t get the ruling we wanted (Friday), so we’re going to pursue this again,” said Carlson, whose company has been closed since June…
Where do privacy rights begin and end?
An editorial in today’s Foster’s Daily Democrat addresses overhead surveillance: At first blush there should be little sympathy for a Center Barnstead man whose alleged marijuana crop was spotted by a Massachusetts Air National Guard helicopter. Mark Sisti, the attorney for Douglass Darrell, 57, is seeking to have the evidence thrown out of court because…
In the Supreme Court on Wednesday: free speech vs. privacy
I’ve often said that whenever I hear the words “balance” and “privacy” in the same sentence, I shudder because I know that privacy will lose out against whatever it’s being balanced against. In Snyder v. Phelps, although my heart aches for the families of those who died in service of our country, I think that…