Jaikumar Vijayan reports that Harvard University will be reviewing and revamping its email privacy policies after a recent controversial search of 16 deans’ email to identify the source of a leak turned out to be more extensive than they had originally claimed: At Tuesday’s meeting, Harvard Dean Evelyn Hammond noted that two additional searches had…
Category: U.S.
ID Theft Case Uncovers New Snooping Gizmo
While a breach involving tax refund fraud would normally get posted to the companion blog, DataBreaches.net, here’s a case where a data breach and the investigators’ surveillance tools collide. Jamie Ross of Courthouse News reports: The federal government’s use of a “stingray” device to track down a suspected ID thief has become an issue in…
An American Quilt of Privacy Laws, Incomplete
Natasha Singer discusses a recent blog post by Peter Fleischer, mentioned previously on this blog, We Need a Better, Simpler Narrative of US Privacy Laws: If the American side now appears to be losing the public relations battle, as Mr. Fleischer suggested, it may be because Europe has forged ahead with its project to modernize data…
Court reinstates student’s lawsuit against school district for unreasonable cellphone search
Back in October 2009, I blogged about a lawsuit alleging Owensboro Public Schools in Kentucky violated a student’s constitutional rights and its own district policies in conducting a warrantless cellphone search and then expelling the student. Somewhere between then and now, I missed the court opinion’s in the case, but apparently, they had granted the…