The Supreme Court granted certiorari in Florida v. Jardines, a case that presented two questions: 1. Whether a dog sniff at the front door of a suspected grow house by a trained narcotics detection dog is a Fourth Amendment search requiring probable cause? 2. Whether the officers’ conduct during the investigation of the grow house,…
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MO: ACLU asks court to stop Missouri library from illegally censoring web sites
Usually libraries are the bastions of privacy and intellectual freedom. Or not. Here’s a press release from the ACLU: The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Eastern Missouri today filed a lawsuit charging the Salem Public Library and its board of trustees with unconstitutionally blocking access to websites discussing minority religions by improperly…
WikiLeaks Backers Lose Bid to Keep Twitter Accounts From U.S. Prosecutors
Tom Schoenberg reports: Three WikiLeaks backers lost their bid to keep information on them collected from their Twitter Inc. accounts from being turned over to U.S. prosecutors who are investigating the group’s publication of classified information. U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady in Alexandria, Virginia, yesterday denied a request by the backers that the information sought…
Upromise Settles FTC charges that ‘TurboSaver Toolbar’ deceptively collected personal information
From the FTC, a settlement in a case previously mentioned on PogoWasRight.org after a researcher reported problems with Upromise’s toolbar: A membership reward service aimed at consumers trying to save money for college has agreed to settle FTC charges and will be barred from its allegedly deceptive practice of using a web-browser toolbar to collect…