Paula Katinas reports: Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott defended a controversial plan to allow private businesses to get a look at information about public school students, telling a town hall audience in Bensonhurst that pupil’s privacy would not be violated. Read more on the Brooklyn Eagle. The fact that the schools will be providing “names, addresses, test…
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Secretive Spy Court Approved Nearly 2,000 Surveillance Requests in 2012
David Kravets reports: A secretive federal court last year approved all of the 1,856 requests to search or electronically surveil people within the United States “for foreign intelligence purposes,” the Justice Department reported this week. The report (.pdf), released Tuesday to Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader from Nevada, provides a brief glimpse into the caseload of…
Residents near music festival “required” to wear RFID armbands
The L.A. Times has reported that people who live anywhere within a mile of the site of the Coachella Valley Music Festival in Indio, California (and perhaps residents’ visitors, if any visitors were allowed?) were “required” to wear individually numbered RFID-chipped tracking bracelets throughout the two weekends of the festival: In 2011, the organization began using microchip-embedded…
Florida Supreme Court Deepens Lower Court Split on Searching a Cell Phone Incident to Arrest
Orin Kerr writes: I recently mentioned my new short essay, Accounting for Technological Change, 36 Harv. J. of Law and Public Policy 403 (2013), about how the Supreme Court should resolve the lower court division on the Fourth Amendment rule for searching a cell phone incident to arrest. In light of that, I thought I would flag…