From Courthouse News: Environmentalists claim the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency’s Office of Homeland Security contracted with an Institute of Terrorism Research and Response to spy on them and disseminate reports that classify them as “potential threats against critical infrastructure.” The group says the spying was revealed after the director of the state agency mistakenly sent…
Category: Court
Ca: Pornography charges laid in a gang-rape of teen at B.C. rave
Charges have been laid against a 16-year-old accused of taking pictures of a gang-rape at a British Columbia rave and posting them on the Internet. The teen from Maple Ridge, B.C., has been charged with distributing and producing child pornography after photos of the assault appeared on Facebook. He is expected to appear in court…
Court Backs Challenge to Galleon Wiretaps
Speaking of of personal privacy rights, Chad Bray reports on a case in the Second Circuit: A federal judge “clearly exceeded” his discretion in ordering Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam to turn over thousands of wiretapped conversations to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this year, a federal appeals court has ruled. Mr. Rajaratnam…
Anthropomorphism, corporations, and “personal privacy”
First they got First Amendment rights. Now they want privacy protections. Next they’ll want the car keys… I’ve been reading various sites covering the news that the Supreme Court will consider the question of whether corporations have the same privacy rights as people. SCOTUSBlog.com summarizes the issue before the court in FTC v. AT&T…