Syma Mohammed and Robert Verkaik report: Personal information concerning the private lives of almost 1,000 British Muslim university students is to be shared with US intelligence agencies in the wake of the Detroit bomb scare. The disclosure has outraged Muslim groups and students who are not involved in extremism but have been targeted by police…
Category: Surveillance
Court: warrantless wiretap of Al-Haramain violated FISA
Maria Dinzeo reports: A federal judge ruled has ruled that government spying on a charity called Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation violated federal laws on domestic surveillance. The government admittedly relied on the surveillance of phone conversations between two of the non-profit’s lawyers and an Al-Haramain director in Saudi Arabia when it designated the group as a…
Communicating With Those Who Have No Privacy Rights: The Hard Question in City of Ontario v. Quon
Orin Kerr writes: On Monday, April 19, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in this Term’s only significant Fourth Amendment case, City of Ontario v. Quon. Quon considers whether a city violated the Fourth Amendment by obtaining copies of stored text messages sent over a city-provided text pager used by a city employee. In…
N.J. Supreme Court rules employer violated woman’s privacy by reading e-mails
The Associated Press reports: New Jersey’s Supreme Court today ruled in favor of a woman whose employer read e-mail sent on a company computer between her and her lawyer. Before she left the Loving Care Agency and filed a discrimination lawsuit, Marina Stengart exchanged e-mails with her lawyer through her personal e-mail account. Loving Care’s…