Christopher Goffard reports: Three weeks after his 18-year-old daughter sped away in his Porsche and swerved to her death in Lake Forest, Christos Catsouras understood why he had not been allowed to see her body. Photographs of the Halloween 2006 crash, taken and leaked by the California Highway Patrol, were proliferating on the Internet. The…
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Gizmodo iPhone Warrant Affidavit Released, Impropriety of Search Confirmed
Matt Zimmerman of EFF provides a legal analysis of the affidavit in the Gizmodo/iPhone case. The affidavit was unsealed yesterday, as reported here previously. Today, San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Clifford Cretan ordered the release of the previously-sealed warrant affidavit that led to the search of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen’s house. As expected, the…
Google Admits to Snooping on Personal Data
Brad Stone writes: On Friday, Google made a stunning admission: for over three years, it has inadvertently collected snippets of private information that people send over unencrypted wireless networks. The admission, made in an official blog post by Alan Eustace, Google’s engineering chief, comes a month after regulators in Europe started asking the search giant…
Lower Merion permanently banned from webcam monitoring (update 2)
John P. Martin reports: A federal judge Friday permanently barred the Lower Merion School District from using webcams or other intrusive technology to secretly monitor students through their school-issued laptops. The five-page injunction signed by U.S. District Judge Jan E. DuBois also requires the suburban district to adopt transparent and expansive policies by September to…