Amy L. Edwards reports: … the Federal Trade Commission is targeting an Orlando company that sells a popular keylogging spyware called RemoteSpy, a product the company says is the best on the market for getting into people’s computers without their knowledge or approval. The FTC’s action against CyberSpy Software marks the first time the federal…
Category: Court
Court: TSA went too far in searching luggage
FourthAmendment.com brings us news of a court opinion that Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees engaged in an unreasonable search of a passenger’s luggage and that the child pornography they uncovered should be suppressed. In United States v. McCarty, the court held: Despite the testimony indicating that the TSA employees searched the photographs solely to determine…
$6M verdict upheld in McDonald’s strip search case
Brett Barrouquere of the Associated Press reports: A Kentucky appeals court upheld a $6.1 million award to a former fast food worker who was forced to strip in a McDonald’s restaurant office after someone called posing as a police officer. The appellate court on Friday ruled that Illinois-based McDonald’s Corp., knew about a series of…
Lawsuit: Use of rival’s name as keyword invades privacy
Dinesh Ramde of Associated Press reports on a lawsuit in Wisconsin that makes an intriguing legal argument. The law firm of Habush, Habush, & Rottier is suing rival law firm Cannon & Dunphy for buying the words “Habush” and “Rottier” from Google for keywords. Habush argues that by purchasing the keywords, a sponsored link for…