Jim Kollock writes: Following rulings in Germany, Bulgaria and Romania that the Data Retention Directive is unconstitutional, Digital Rights Ireland have been given permission to challenge it in the European Court of Justice. The Directive requires your ISP to record details of what emails you send to whom, along with the IP address given to…
Category: Court
No reasonable expectation of privacy in subscriber info with ISP – court
From FourthAmendment.com: An FBI Agent trolling in a Yahoo! child pornography chat room was able to tell that “markie_zkidluv6” had uploaded child porn. An administrative subpoena was served on Yahoo! for the subscriber information, and information was used to get a search warrant for Bynum’s a/k/a “markie_zkidluv6″‘s house. There manifestly is no reasonable expectation of…
Your Email Is Not Private (On One Side of the Hudson)
Adam B. writes: … NYC doctor’s office. Doctor installs keystroke logging software on an office computer and doesn’t tell anyone, and tells an employee to only use that computer. Doctor uses the results of the keystroke logging software to log into the employee’s personal email account, review emails, print out some of them, and emails…
Web name linked to Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold has comments on other sites; some target Arabs, Asians, others
Gabriel Baird of the Plain Dealer has more on the “lawmiss” commenter associated with a courthouse computer used by Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold: The cleveland.com username “lawmiss” gained national attention in March after The Plain Dealer reported it had links to Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold and had commented on cases before Saffold, including that of…