Maria Dinzeo reports: A federal judge ruled has ruled that government spying on a charity called Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation violated federal laws on domestic surveillance. The government admittedly relied on the surveillance of phone conversations between two of the non-profit’s lawyers and an Al-Haramain director in Saudi Arabia when it designated the group as a…
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Communicating With Those Who Have No Privacy Rights: The Hard Question in City of Ontario v. Quon
Orin Kerr writes: On Monday, April 19, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in this Term’s only significant Fourth Amendment case, City of Ontario v. Quon. Quon considers whether a city violated the Fourth Amendment by obtaining copies of stored text messages sent over a city-provided text pager used by a city employee. In…
McDonald’s Settles Case Over Posting of Nude Photos
It was a case that started in 2008 when Phillip and Tina Sherman sued a McDonald’s after nude photos on their phone were uploaded to the Internet after they accidentally left the phone at the restaurant. The Sherman’s had realized their error and called the restaurant, and the manager had allegedly assured them that the…
N.J. Supreme Court rules employer violated woman’s privacy by reading e-mails
The Associated Press reports: New Jersey’s Supreme Court today ruled in favor of a woman whose employer read e-mail sent on a company computer between her and her lawyer. Before she left the Loving Care Agency and filed a discrimination lawsuit, Marina Stengart exchanged e-mails with her lawyer through her personal e-mail account. Loving Care’s…