As a follow-up to a story originally posted here a few days ago, Declan McCullagh reports: North Carolina’s tax collectors said Wednesday that they never demanded personal information such as book titles from Amazon.com, which filed a federal lawsuit against the state this week seeking to keep that information confidential. “Amazon’s complaint is misleading in…
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Article: The Puzzle of Brandeis, Privacy, and Speech
Over on Concurring Opinions, Danielle Citron calls our attention to this article by Neil Richards: The Puzzle of Brandeis, Privacy, and Speech Neil M. Richards Washington University School of Law Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 63, 2010 Abstract: Most courts and scholarship assume that privacy and free speech are always in conflict, even though each of…
Court Test Coming on ‘e-Signatures’ in Petition
Suzanne Ashe reports: A federal judge ordered Utah county clerks to keep confidential the names signed electronically on petitions for a “Government Ethics Reform” initiative. Utahns for Ethical Government sued all the county clerks in Utah, claiming it needs the electronic signatures to qualify its initiative for the ballot, but many signers do not want…
UK: Sex offenders win right to challenge lifetime place on sex offenders register
Richard Ford reports: Two sex offenders today won the right to challenge their lifetime inclusion on the sex offender register after complaining that it breached their human rights. The ruling in the Supreme Court opens the way for hundreds of other sex offenders placed on the register for life to seek to have their details…