Cato Institute has uploaded a really good video about video and audiotaping law enforcement in the performance of their duties:
Category: Court
Pittsburgh settles lawsuit over exposing confidential medical info
Joe Smydo of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that one of two federal lawsuits recently settled by the Pittsburgh City Council involved a breach of confidential medical information both in a public meeting and online. Although this is a settlement and not a court or jury decision, what’s interesting is that the basis for claim was violation…
Recent Lawsuits Challenge Use of Flash Cookies to Track Online Behavior
Robert D. Forbes writes: Four recent lawsuits filed against some of the Web’s biggest media companies challenge the alleged use of Flash cookies capable of circumventing a user’s ability to prevent the tracking of online behavior. The four complaints (available here, here, here, and here) center around the defendants’ alleged tracking of consumers’ online behavior through the use of…
Recommended Article: Is the Fourth Amendment Really About ‘Privacy’?
Julian Sanchez provides more food for thought: …. Several fascinating recent papers, however, have instead argued that the root of the trouble with current Fourth Amendment doctrine is the very idea that the prohibition on “unreasonable searches” must be viewed primarily through the lens of privacy. If we consider public surveillance camera networks, or some…