Over on The Volokh Conspiracy, Orin Kerr blogs about oral arguments in a case before the Third Circuit in which the government wants cell phone location data to be made available to it without any warrant: The Third Circuit held oral argument today in the case on the legal standard for historical cell-site information. I…
Category: Surveillance
Prosecutors: ESPN reporter Erin Andrews’ stalker taped 16 other women, ran background checks
The Associated Press reports that prosecutors claims that sportscaster Erin Andrew’s stalker also breached other individuals’ privacy: The man who stalked ESPN reporter Erin Andrews and shot nude videos of her through a hotel room peephole videotaped 16 other women and ran background checks on 30 people, including female sports reporters and TV personalities, according…
Finnish police probe Google for privacy breach
AFP reports: Police in Raahe, some 600 kilometres (370 miles) north of Helsinki, began the investigation Thursday at the request of a man whose picture could been seen online on Google’s Street View maps, he said. “You can see a man sitting in a rocking chair,” detective sergeant Hannu Vainionpaeae told AFP. “He is wearing…
Feds push for tracking cell phones
Declan McCullagh reports: Two years ago, when the FBI was stymied by a band of armed robbers known as the “Scarecrow Bandits” that had robbed more than 20 Texas banks, it came up with a novel method of locating the thieves. FBI agents obtained logs from mobile phone companies corresponding to what their cellular towers…