Willard Shepard and Brian Hamacher report: Perhaps the new airport body scanners are a bit too revealing. A TSA worker in Miami was arrested for aggravated battery after police say he attacked a colleague who’d made fun of his small genitalia after he walked through one of the new high-tech security scanners during a recent…
Category: Court
Ca: Top court to rule on media’s ability to shield confidential sources
Janice Tibbetts reports: The Supreme Court of Canada will rule Friday on whether Canadian media — like journalists in several other Western countries — should be protected from divulging their confidential sources to police to help with criminal investigations. The National Post newspaper, supported by civil libertarians and a coalition of media groups, seeks to…
Spammers ordered to pay tiny ISP whopping $2.6m
Dan Goodin reports: A small internet service provider has been awarded nearly $2.6m in a lawsuit it filed against a company that sent just under 25,000 spam messages over an 18-month period. Although it’s questionable whether Asis Internet Services will ever see a penny of that windfall, the judgment is testament to the awesome power…
No Privacy Invasion for Noisy Neighbor Recording
Jeff Gorman reports: A Wisconsin couple did not invade their neighbors’ privacy by placing a $50 recorder from Radio Shack on the windowsill in order to bust them for being too noisy, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals ruled. Andrea Burns and James Barr complained to police that their neighbors, Karen and Barry Poston, were harassing…