John P. Martin reports the latest installment in the ongoing dispute over webcam surveillance by the Lower Merion School District: The lawyer for the former top technology administrator in the Lower Merion School District today attacked a report that broadly blamed his client for the furor over the district’s secret laptop tracking program. Lawyer Nicholas…
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EFF fights Facebook’s attempt to criminalize use of other aggregators
From EFF: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging a federal judge to dismiss Facebook’s claims that criminal law is violated when its users opt for an add-on service that helps them aggregate their information from a variety of social networking sites. Power Ventures makes a web-based tool that users can set up to log…
Lower Merion releases webcam investigation report
Richard Ilgenfritz reports: An internal investigation into the Lower Merion School District’s use of the computer tracking software confirms that tens of thousands of images were found and investigators are putting a lot of the blame on the district’s tech staff. According to the findings of the investigation that was released to the public Monday…
A.G. office on cruiser crash: Privacy law trumps public’s right to know
Elizabeth Dinan reports: The public does not have a right to know details pertaining to a Feb. 5 crash involving a police cruiser driven by an on-duty police officer because of state law written to protect citizens’ private information, according to Senior Assistant Attorney General Mark Hodgdon. The Assistant AG made that argument in Merrimack…