Bruce Vielmetti reports: Susan Dandridge knew that when she sought protection in bankruptcy court last year, information about her debts and income would go into a public court file. “It’s old bills and stuff from my earlier life I’m trying to clean up,” said the 53-year-old admissions adviser at Herzing University, a for-profit college with…
Category: Court
Privacy rights in a digital age
Betsy Powell reports: During a routine traffic stop, police suspected the car was stolen. That led to a search uncovering a handgun concealed in the back seat. With a suspect in custody, an officer looked through the man’s hand-held device and discovered a seemingly incriminating text message. But the officer found that, while he was…
EFF Helps Blogger Subpoenaed by TSA, TSA Backs Down
Why am I not surprised to learn that the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) jumped in to assist the two travel bloggers who received subpoenas after they posted a TSA security directive? Cindy Cohn of EFF writes: On December 31, 2009, the Transportation Security Administration backed off on an ill-considered administrative subpoena it issued to trasportation…
Judge blocks part of new Neb. sex offender law
The Associated Press reports: A federal judge yesterday blocked portions of Nebraska’s new sex-offender registry law, including provisions that sought to monitor convicted sex offenders’ computer usage and prevent them from visiting certain Web sites. Judge Richard Kopf did leave most of the law intact, saying it came close to meeting criteria set for the…