Paul Elias of Associated Press reports on today’s 9th Circuit hearing on DNA collection from arrestees: A California deputy attorney general, defending a state law requiring everyone arrested for a felony to provide a genetic sample, endured tough questioning Wednesday from members of an 11-judge federal appeals court panel. At least three of the 9th…
Category: Laws
When Privacy Gets Personal For Policymakers
Jay Stanley of the ACLU writes: Data from license plate readers in Minnesota was obtained by a St. Paul car dealer using open-records laws, and used to repossess at least one car, according to a recent article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The article included this amusing tidbit: When the Star Tribune published data tracking Mayor R.T….
Lawyers Ponder Whether ‘Secret Video’ of Romney Violated Privacy Laws
Bruce Carton writes: Politicos want to know whether the “secret video” of Mitt Romney speaking at a private fundraising event will hurt his chances in the upcoming presidential election, but some lawyers are pondering a different question: Did the person who made the tape violate state law? CNBC reports that in Florida, both parties to a conversation must…
On Reverse Engineering Privacy Law
Omer Tene writes: Michael Birnhack, a professor at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, is one of the leading thinkers about privacy and data protection today (for some of his previous work see here and here and here; he’s also written a deep, thoughtful, innovative book in Hebrew about the theory of privacy. See here). In a new article, Reverse Engineering Informational…