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…
Category: Surveillance
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…
Advocacy Groups, Companies Call for an Update of the Privacy Framework for Law Enforcement Access to Digital Information
From the announcement of a new coalition to promote a new framework and revision to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act: A broad coalition of privacy groups, think tanks, technology companies and academics today issued principles for updating the key federal law that defines the rules for government access to email and private files stored in…
AFM reacts to ‘breach of privacy’ complaints
Media coverage of a judgement of the European Court of Justice, that stop and search powers in the UK, claimed to be similar to the powers the police and AFM [Armed Forces of Malta] in Malta have, are illegal for being in breach of individuals’ right to privacy and are leading to complaints from drivers…