The Colorado Supreme Court released seven opinions on Monday, four of which related to Arizona v. Gant, a 2009 U.S. Supreme Court decision that raised the standards for warrantless vehicular searches conducted after the vehicle’s occupants have been arrested and secured. Perez v. People. The Supreme Court, in a 5-2 decision reversing the Court of…
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Data retention challenged by Digital Rights Ireland
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…
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…