The European Court of Human Rights issued two long-awaited decisions today in cases that pit media rights against individuals’ privacy interests. From the court’s press release: The European Court of Human Rights has today delivered two Grand Chamber judgments, in the cases of Axel Springer AG v. Germany (application no. 39954/08) and Von Hannover v….
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Leaked memo shows Europe at odds over data retention
Jennifer Baker reports: Digital rights groups in Europe have called for a ban on blanket data retention after a leaked internal memo from the European Commission admitted that there are significant problems with the current EU Data Retention Directive. The German Working Group on Data Retention (AK Vorrat) published the leaked memo, which lists various…
Federal court – warrantless search of protestor’s video cam violated Fourth Amendment
FourthAmendment.com points to a recent news story out of Oregon that searching a videocam without a warrant, even incident to an arrest, is a Fourth Amendment violation. Bryan Denson reports: The rules of engagement became clearer in Eugene’s U.S. District Court last week, when a civil jury determined that a city police sergeant violated an…
California family settles lawsuit over leaked crash images
Dan Whitcomb of Reuters reports a settlement in a precedent-setting case I’ve been covering for the past several years: The family of a teen whose mangled corpse was shown in horrific car-crash photos that went viral online has settled a lawsuit against the California Highway Patrol for $2.37 million, ending a 5-year legal battle that…