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…
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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”…
When American and European Ideas of Privacy Collide
Adam Liptak reports: “On the Internet, the First Amendment is a local ordinance,” said Fred H. Cate, a law professor at Indiana University. He was talking about last week’s ruling from an Italian court that Google executives had violated Italian privacy law by allowing users to post a video on one of its services. In…
Congress Extends Library Provision of Patriot Act to 2011
Beverly Goldberg writes: The U.S. House of Representatives sent Pres. Obama a bill extending three often-contested provisions of the Patriot Act on the evening of February 26, two days before the sections were due to expire. Approved by a vote of 315–97 the night after the Senate passed the bill by voice vote, H.R.< 3961…