Jim Harper of the Cato Institute writes: Everybody’s wrong. That’s sort of the message I was putting out when I wrote my 2008 American University Law Review law review article entitled “Reforming Fourth Amendment Privacy Doctrine.” A lot of people have poured a lot of effort into the “reasonable expectation of privacy” formulation Justice Harlan wrote about…
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Italian Court Finds Google Violated Privacy
Eric Sylvers and Eric Pfanner report: Three Google executives were convicted of violating Italian privacy laws on Wednesday in a case that the company says could undermine freedom of expression on the Internet. The case involved online videos showing an autistic boy being bullied by classmates in Turin. They were posted in 2006 on Google…
Another twist in “webcamgate:” was the student’s laptop “missing?”
New revelations in The Philadelphia Inquirer hint that there may have been an innocent explanation for why the Lower Merion School District reportedly activated a webcam while the laptop was in the student’s home. On the same day that a court issued a temporary restraining order that bars the district from reactivating the remote security…
Fourth Amendment news–And the public, as usual, has not been paying attention
John Wesley Hall Jr. nails it: For a little over two weeks now, ever since the press got wind of an oral argument in the Third Circuit about a cell phone tracking information appeal by the government (see prior post: Fourth Amendment news–CA3 to hear argument on accessing cell phone location data), the blogosphere has…