Although Mark Sherman of the Associated Press reports that it sounds like the Supreme Court justices will find for the employer in this important workplace text-message privacy case, Orin Kerr had a somewhat different take on how oral argument went: […] Justice Breyer focused on the reasonableness of the search (Step 2 of the O’Connor…
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Irish court says Eircom disconnections do not breach privacy laws
Eircom, which is the privately-owned former state telecoms monopoly, came to a settlement with the four major record labels EMI, Sony BMG, Warner and Universal when the companies sued it over its customers’ file-sharing activities. In the settlement Eircom agreed to operate the ‘three strikes’ disconnection policy advocated internationally by music labels and film studios….
French TV channel fined for reporting Bruni rumours
A Paris court fined the France 24 news channel on Friday for reporting rumours that first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy was having an affair with a French pop singer. Judges ordered the publicly-funded television channel to pay 3,000 euros to the singer in question, Benjamin Biolay, after ruling that the coverage violated his privacy. Biolay had…
FL: Deputy Arrested Over Data Access
Shoshana Walter reports: Detectives say key members of a massive drug trafficking operation used a Polk County sheriff’s deputy to look up vehicle tag information for a car they suspected belonged to an undercover detective. The 16-year veteran of the Sheriff’s Office, who most recently was assigned to patrol the Winter Haven area, has joined…