When a judge called for United States v. Lemus to be reheard en banc, the majority of judges in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals did not vote to rehear the case. Chief Judge Alex Kozinski wrote an absolutely blistering dissent to that denial. With Judge Paez joining in the dissent, he wrote: This is…
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SF Court: Use File Sharing Programs, Kiss Your Privacy Goodbye
Computer users who sign up for peer-to-peer file-sharing programs don’t have a privacy right to be shielded from FBI probes, according to a federal appeals court ruling in San Francisco today. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the child pornography possession conviction of a Nevada man who was prosecuted after an FBI agent…
Pa. school district denies spying on students with MacBooks
A school district responds to a lawsuit alleging that students were spied on in their own homes by district-issued laptops by saying that the surveillance was a security feature. Kreg Keizer reports: A suburban Philadelphia school district yesterday denied it spied on students by remotely activating the cameras on their school-issued MacBook laptops. In a…
‘Privacy Assist’ My Eye, Class Tells BofA
Maria Dinzeo reports: Bank of America takes money from customers’ accounts to pay for services they didn’t order and don’t want, a class action claims in Federal Court. The class claims the bank charges for “Privacy Assist” services without informing them, and refuses to refund the money when customers catch on. The class claims Bank…