If Tagged.com thought that its troubles with NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo were in the past, they apparently thought wrong. Cuomo issued a press release today that he is planning to sue the social networking site — this time, for failing to protect children from being exposed to graphic images of child pornography: … a…
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Judge limits DHS warrantless laptop searches
Dan Goodin reports: A federal judge has thrown out key evidence in a child pornography trial because the laptop alleged to contain more than 1,000 illegal images wasn’t searched until about five months after US customs officials seized it at a US border crossing. The ruling by US District Judge Jeffrey S. White of the…
More on vehicle “black boxes”–applying the “Big Brother” standard under the Fourth Amendment
Over on FourthAmendment.com, John Wesley Hall, Jr. has a commentary on the use of automotive “black boxes” and under what conditions the government can use them as evidence. The commentary seems inspired by a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposal to require black boxes in all cars. John writes, in part: What about the privacy…
Google background images: a new way of snooping?
I was willing to believe that Google had no criminal intent in collecting Wi-Fi payload data, but they just irritated the heck out of me with the privacy implications of their new background images approach. Thinq explains: Unless you’ve spent the day sleeping under a log, you’ll probably have noticed that Internet search engine Google…