Reporter David Savage updates us all on an important case that the U.S. Supreme Court has now agreed to hear: The Supreme Court said today it would rule for the first time on whether employees have a right to privacy when they send text messages on electronic devices supplied by their employers. The justices agreed…
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Where does GPS tracking go from here?
Orin Kerr’s commentary on GPS surveillance and the Fourth Amendment has seemingly inspired John Wesley Hall, Jr. of FourthAmendment.com to offer his own commentary: My personal view is not far off, but with a caveat: United States v. Knotts, 460 U.S. 276 (1983), and United States v. Karo, 468 U.S. 705 (1984), two beeper tracking…
Tiger Woods’s U.S. lawyers disseminated the U.K. injunction – paper
As a follow-up to my coverage of the super-secret U.K. injunction prohibiting U.K .media from publishing any nude photos of Tiger Woods (if they exist) and seemingly prohibiting U.K. media from even divulging the contents of the injunction, it’s now been revealed how that injunction was leaked in the U.S. media. According to Times Online,…
Thinking of suing under CAN-SPAM? Think again.
I would have thought – or hoped – that an ISP could successfully sue a spammer under CAN-SPAM by simply demonstrating that their server(s) were misused for a spam run. I would have thought wrong. Ronnie London writes in the Privacy & Security Law Blog that the bar for a successful lawsuit is higher than…