Orin Kerr responds to a critique of his technology neutrality approach to the Fourth Amendment: Defense attorney and blogger Rick Horowitz has posted an extended two-part response to my new law review article, Applying the Fourth Amendment to the Internet: A General Approach, 62 Stan. L. Rev. 1005 (2010). His posts are here: 1. Orin Kerr’s…
Category: Misc
CBS apologizes for “terrible mistake in judgment”
Steve Schwaid, Director of News and Digital Content for CBS Atlanta has published an unabashed apology for the station’s poor taste in airing a video yesterday as part of its coverage of the arrest of Lishan Wang for shooting a Yale University doctor. That story did not appear on PogoWasRight.org, as it was not a…
Supreme Court takes up Wash. case involving disclosure of petition signatures
This upcoming case has been discussed on this site before, but Janet I. Tu of the Seattle Times has a nice overview of the case for those who are not already familiar with the issues: The U.S. Supreme Court this week will hear a Washington state case that could decide whether signing a petition for…
“Geofencing” enables new location-based apps, raises privacy concerns
JP Manninen reports: A coffee shop pinging your cell phone with a deal for latte when you’re 300 feet away? A mother alerted when her child leaves the school grounds? All this is done with “geofencing“, the latest thing in location-based services, according to some proponents and users. Geofencing means setting up a virtual perimeter—the…