Frank Green reports that Betty “BJ” Ostergren of the Virginia Watchdog will be back in court tomorrow: A privacy advocate will be in court tomorrow defending a ruling last year that enables her to publish records with the Social Security numbers of state officials on her Web site. In June, a federal judge ordered Virginia…
Category: Court
Anonymous sender of beer pong email gets to remain unknown
Evan Brown reports on a case in New Jersey where the standards for unmasking an anonymous party articulated in Dendrite v. Doe were applied to a case involving a teenage girl who tried to unmask an anonymous party who sent pictures of her playing beer pong to her school administrators. In A.Z. v. Doe, the…
Rethinking Sex Offender Laws for Teenage Texting
Tamar Lewin reports: In Iowa, Jorge Canal is on the sex offenders registry because, at age 18, he was convicted of distributing obscene materials to a minor after he sent a picture of his penis by cellphone to a 14-year-old female friend who had requested it. In Florida, Phillip Alpert, then 18, was charged with…
EFF Appeals Dismissal of Warrantless Wiretapping Case
Cindy Cohn of EFF reports that the Electronic Frontier Foundation is not going quietly into the night when it comes to warrantless surveillance: EFF today filed its appeal to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals of the dismissal of Jewel v. NSA, the case EFF brought against the U.S. government and government officials on behalf…