Seen at Courthouse News: A federal class action claims that American Express routes customers’ calls to foreign call centers without their permission or knowledge, subjecting them to intrusive, warrantless snooping by the U.S. government. The case is Pickman v. American Express Travel Services and was filed in Superior Court of California in Alameda on June…
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Et tu, Israel? Israel to start collecting fingerprints from all citizens
Atty. Jonathan J. Klinger writes: Last Thursday marked the final approval of the biometric database regulations and the biometric database order in Israel; the regulations and order were approved by a special Knesset panel participated solely by MK Meir Sheetrit (Kadima) and Abraham Michaeli (Shas), where Sheetrit was the initial entrepreneur of the Biometric Database in his position…
No Place to Hide: First Amendment Protection for Location Privacy
The following is an excerpt from an article by Ted Claypoole that was published in the BNA Electronic Commerce Law Reporter (16 ECLR 869): Support for a Constitutional Right to Geolocation Privacy and Anonymity. The United States Constitution famously does not mention privacy, although it mentions personal security, which could have meant something similar to…
Alberta’s Privacy Commissioner seeks leave to Appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada
The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta is evidently not happy at all with a recent ruling by the Alberta Court of Appeal and wants to challenge it. According to a June 1 press release from his office: Information and Privacy Commissioner Frank Work has filed an Application for Leave to appeal…