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…
Category: Court
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…
Judge Shields Identity of Online Critic Facing Baseless Lawsuit
EFF issued the following press release: A federal judge in San Francisco has quashed a baseless subpoena aimed at outing an anonymous online critic of Pennsylvania corporation USA Technologies after the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) successfully argued that the First Amendment shields the identity of anonymous speakers who engage in lawful speech. “All too frequently,…