Curtis Krueger reports: Melanie Beacham is on Facebook, the social networking site “that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.”Unfortunately for her, those “others” include bill collectors. Beacham, 34, of St. Petersburg, said she already had called her car finance company last summer to let people know she was…
Category: Court
Palin hacker’s verdict stands
Jamie Satterfield reports: A federal judge has shot down a former University of Tennessee student’s bid to have tossed out convictions in the illegal access of Sarah Palin’s personal e-mail account during the 2008 presidential election. Although U.S. District Judge Thomas Phillips’ ruling, issued Thursday, paves the way for David C. Kernell to be sentenced next…
ECPA Reform – An Overview of Issues to be Considered
Andy Serwin writes: The Senate Judiciary Committee has been holding hearings on whether the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, ECPA, should be reformed. There are many who believe that ECPA reform is long over due, including the ACLU, in light of recent technological changes, particularly the increasing use of cloud computing, while there are some that…
Va. court reconsiders police GPS use
Tom Jackman reports: Two weeks after the Virginia Court of Appeals ruled that it was fine for police to use portable global positioning systems to track criminal suspects, the court has now decided to rehear the case, according to an order entered on Thursday. The court ruled in the case of David L. Foltz Jr., a…