Tim Hull reports: Despite a clear constitutional right to control death images of relatives, a district attorney is not liable for sending an autopsy photograph to the press, the 9th Circuit ruled Tuesday. In the first decision of its kind, the federal appeals court in San Francisco found that “the common law right to non-interference…
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Washington lawyers challenge secret court proceedings
Gene Johnson reports: A defense lawyer in Eastern Washington was reading a detective’s statement in his client’s drug case when he came across a curious line. In asking to search the man’s house and cars, the detective revealed that he had already seen the defendant’s bank records. That’s odd, thought the lawyer, Robert Thompson of Pasco. There’s no…
From Fingerprints to DNA: Biometric Data Collection in U.S. Immigrant Communities and Beyond
From EFF: Today the Immigration Policy Center (IPC) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) release “From Fingerprints to DNA: Biometric Data Collection in U.S. Immigrant Communities and Beyond.” The paper outlines the current state of U.S. government collection of biometric information and the problems that could arise from these growing databases of records. It also…
White Paper on Governmental Access to Data in the Cloud Debunks Faulty Assumption That US Access is Unique
Hogan Lovells has published a White Paper with the results of a study about governmental access to data in the cloud. The paper was written by Christopher Wolf, co-director of Hogan Lovells’ Privacy and Information Management practice, and Paris Office partner Winston Maxwell. It was released today at a program presented by the Openforum Academy…