David Kravets reports: Prosecutors are claiming a federal judge is hampering a criminal investigation into a webcam scandal at a Philadelphia suburban school district. The evidence prosecutors are seeking is connected to a federal civil lawsuit in which plaintiff’s lawyers claim the Lower Merion School District secretly snapped thousands of webcam images of students using…
Category: Court
Google gets no sympathy from non-U.S. courts
Google has been fined $US8500 ($9100) in Brazil after an anonymous internet user posted defamatory messages on one of its sites against a priest, calling him a “paedophile”, media reported on Sunday. A court in the state of Minas Gerais ruled in favor of the 54-year-old priest, identified by his initials J.R., after rejecting Google’s…
“Peeping Tom” Allegation May Not Fly in “Webcamgate”
Matthew Heller comments: A high-profile privacy lawsuit against a Pennsylvania school district that allegedly used remote-controlled cameras on laptop computers to snoop on students may turn out to be a tempest in a teapot unless the plaintiffs can show the district had some voyeuristic purpose. […] There is no doubt the district bungled badly by…
The Irrelevancy of the Fourth Amendment in the Roberts Court
Another new Fourth Amendment article: The Irrelevancy of the Fourth Amendment in the Roberts Court by Thomas K. Clancy of the University of Mississippi School of Law, 85 Chi.-Kent L. J. 191 (2010). Here’s the abstract: Since John Roberts Jr. became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, there has been a measurable decline in the…