The man prosecutors dubbed the “Peeping Tom Landlord” could be peering from behind prison bars for a long time now that he’s admitted to using electronic devices to videotape women who lived in his Norristown apartment buildings. Thomas Daley, 46, formerly of the 1000 block of Spring City Road, Phoenixville, pleaded guilty in Montgomery County…
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Court upholds privacy of investigators and eyewitnesses
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals published its decision in Lahr v. NTSB this week. The case concerns privacy exemptions to FOIA requests, and arose over a dispute about the cause of the Trans World Airlines Flight 800 (“TWA Flight 800”) mid-air explosion off the coast of Long Island that killed all 230 people on…
EFF sues DOJ: Show us YOUR papers
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit against the Department of Justice today, demanding the public release of the surveillance guidelines that govern investigations of Americans by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The FBI’s Domestic Investigative Operational Guidelines went into effect in December of 2008 and detail the Bureau’s procedures and standards for implementing…
Court: Posting online can be invasion of privacy
In a case that seems like deja vu all over again, the Minnesota Court of Appeals held that posting someone else’s embarrassing personal information on the Internet can be a legal invasion of privacy, regardless of how many people view the site. In this case, the personal information concerned a woman’s sexually transmitted disease that…