Struan Robertson, editor of Out-Law.com, writes: OPINION: Criticism of last week’s conviction of three Google executives has focused on Italy’s legal system. That focus risks missing a wider point. Web hosts are unfairly exposed all across the EU and two legal changes are needed. For now we can only speculate on the court’s reasons. Regardless…
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Court rules anti-terror data storage illegal
In a victory for privacy advocates, Germany’s highest court on Tuesday knocked down an anti-terrorism law that allows authorities to store all phone and internet records of private citizens. The Karlsruhe-based Constitutional Court ruled that the mass storage of private records breaches Germany’s constitution, effectively overturning a law passed in 2008 that compels communications companies…
SCOTUS: Privacy Lawsuit Against Hustler Can Go Forward
From EPIC.org: Today the Supreme Court of the United States issued an order that will allow a privacy case against the Hustler Magazine to continue in lower courts. In March of 2008, less than a year after she was murdered by her wrestler husband, naked photos of Nancy Benoit were published in the magazine. Nancy…
Kerr: Fourth Amendment Seizures of Computer Data
Orin Kerr’s article, “Fourth Amendment Seizures of Computer Data,” is in the Yale Law Journal, 119:700 2010, and is available online. Here is the abstract: What does it mean to “seize” computer data for Fourth Amendment purposes? Does copying data amount to a seizure, and if so, when? This Article argues that copying data “seizes”…