Susan Brenner wrote a very interesting post about whether law enforcement obtaining OnStar data constitutes a “search” and implicates Fourth Amendment protections: I’ve done a couple of posts about cases in which law enforcement officers’ use of OnStar listen in on conversations occurring in a vehicle violates the 4thAmendment. As I explained in the post I did…
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Privacy invasion aftermath: “Jumping off the gw bridge sorry.”
I didn’t sleep much last night. I felt sick inside over the suicide of a young man whose privacy had been horribly invaded. There will be those who lump this case in with what is often referred to as “cyberbullying,” but cyberbullying does not necessarily involve invasion of privacy. The suicide of Tyler Clementi is…
Oui, Defamation Can be Automatic
Marie-Andrée – who unlike this blogger can actually speak French and is a lawyer to boot – provides a commentary and explanation of a recent French court ruling that Eric Schmidt was guilty of defamation because of Google Suggest results. She writes, in part: The Court noted that “algorithms or software solutions proceed from the…
EU takes UK to court over internet privacy
The UKPA reports: The European Commission is taking the UK to court for breaking EU rules on safeguarding internet privacy. The move follows complaints to the Commission from British internet users that they have been targeted by advertisers based on an analysis of their “internet traffic”. A Commission statement said it first launched legal proceedings…