The following is an editorial by Joseph W. McQuaid, Publisher of the New Hampshire Union Leader: The people of New Hampshire should know that their state government is using — in our view misusing — something called the “Driver Privacy Act” to prevent them from finding out what their public servants are doing on public…
Category: Court
Rapist claims media breaching right to privacy
A serial rapist who is seeking court orders restraining publication of his address following his release from prison last year has told the High Court he does not want to cause trouble and simply wishes “to continue my rehabilitation, to live my life and hopefully integrate back into society”. He said the newspapers had been…
NYCLU Class-Action Lawsuit Challenges NYPD’s Practice of Keeping Innocent New Yorkers in Stop-and-Frisk Database
The New York Civil Liberties Union today filed a class-action lawsuit challenging the NYPD’s practice of keeping the personal information of innocent New Yorkers who have been stopped and frisked by police officers in an electronic police database that the department uses for criminal investigations. “Innocent New Yorkers who are the victims of unjustified police…
Malware and Search Warrant
Susan Brenner discusses an aspect of the search warrant and inspection of computer belonging to David C. Kernell, the young man who was subsequently convicted of hacking into Sarah Palin’s e-mail account: A recent decision from a federal district court addresses an issue I hadn’t seen before: whether searching malware on the suspect’s computer was…