Rene Stutzman has an interesting story about a woman who sued Seminole County, Florida because she was jailed for a day after another woman had used her identity when she was arrested. The innocent ID theft victim reportedly said, “”I was held there when they knew it was not me, then I was strip searched and…
Category: Court
IL: Palatine man sues village because parking ticket reveals personal info
Kimberly Pohl reports: Jason Senne doesn’t dispute that he illegally parked overnight in Palatine, but the contents of the citation he received are an entirely different story. The Palatine man is suing the village for listing personal information on his Aug. 20 ticket – visible for five hours on his parked Acura in the area…
Breaking News on EFF Location Privacy Win: Courts May Require Search Warrants for Cell Phone Location Records
Woo hoo! Kevin Bankston of EFF writes: This morning, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia issued its highly anticipated ruling in a hotly contested cell phone location privacy case. EFF filed a friend-of-the-court brief andparticipated at oral argument in the case, arguing that federal electronic privacy law gives judges the discretion to deny government requests for…
Va. court: Police can use GPS to track suspect
Larry O’Dell of the Associated Press reports on an unsurprising verdict: The same GPS technology that motorists use to get directions can be used by police without a warrant to track the movements of criminal suspects on public streets, the Virginia Court of Appeals said Tuesday. In a case that prompted warnings of Orwellian snooping…