Matthew Heller writes: A Texas teenager has taken a major step toward winning her privacy lawsuit against an assistant middle school principal who searched the contents of her cell phone, finding a nude photo of her. Alexis Mendoza, then an eighth-grader at Kimmel Intermediate School in Spring, Texas, admitted sending the photo to a boy…
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The negative impact of AT&T’s purchase of T-Mobile on the market for privacy
Chris Soghoian writes: Yesterday, AT&T announced that it will be purchasing T-Mobile, the fourth largest wireless carrier in the US. While there are many who have raised antitrust concerns about this deal due to the impact it will have on the price of wireless services and mobile device/application choice, I want to raise a slightly…
2nd Circuit reinstates lawsuit – plaintiffs had Article III standing to sue over section 702 of FISA
Associated Press reports that the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Section 702 of FISA. The plaintiffs are Amnesty International and journalists, human rights organizations, and attorneys. Howard Bashman points us to today’s ruling in Amnesty International USA v. Clapper: Appellants – attorneys, journalists, and labor, legal, media,…
What does your state know about you – and is it correct?
There are a lot of “big brother” types of news stories or columns in the media, and obviously, I don’t post all of them to my blog. But this one by Mike Myer in a West Virginia publication, The Intelligencer, is a terrific example of why the public should be concerned – or at least…