Paul Ohm has an article in the current issue of the Harvard Law Review, “The Fourth Amendment Right to Delete,” in which he responds to an earlier article by Orin Kerr (2005). Here’s an excerpt from Paul’s article: Fourth Amendment cases are surprisingly difficult to apply to tools used in a surveillance two-step: collect the…
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N.B. newspaper ordered to name commenter
A New Brunswick judge has ordered a Moncton newspaper to reveal the identity of an anonymous commenter after the person’s online post was considered defamatory by its target. The court order is a part of a growing trend of judges siding with complainants and forcing media companies to turn over the names of people commenting…
Parliament gives green light for SWIFT II
The new version of the SWIFT anti-terrorist agreement on bank data transfers to the USA was approved by the European Parliament on Thursday. MEPs rejected the agreement in its previous form four months ago but since then have negotiated certain safeguards for Europe’s citizens and won an undertaking that the EU will start work in…
Legal proceedings against Facebook for illegally accessing and saving personal data of people who don’t use Facebook
A German data protection official said Wednesday he launched legal proceedings against Facebook, which he accused of illegally accessing and saving personal data of people who don’t use the social networking site. Johannes Caspar said his Hamburg data protection office had initiated legal steps that could result in Facebook being fined tens of thousands of…