Mary Carmichael reports: Harvard University central administrators secretly searched the email accounts of 16 resident deans last fall, looking for a leak to the media about the school’s sprawling cheating case, according to several Harvard officials interviewed by the Globe. The resident deans sit on Harvard’s Administrative Board, the committee charged with handling the cheating…
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Congress Tries, Yet Again, To Fix Outdated Electronic Privacy Law
Mike Masnick writes: … This week, however, ECPA reform has been brought back once again, this time in the House, by Rep. Zoe Lofgren, along with Reps. Ted Poe and Suzan DelBene. The proposed bill, called The Online Communications and Geolocation Protection Act, is embedded below. It’s a strong bill, meaning law enforcement folks are likely to flip…
Google Isn’t Responsible For Protecting This Woman’s ‘Wholesome’ Image
Jonathan Stempel of Reuters reports: A Wisconsin woman trying to protect her “wholesome” image failed to persuade a federal appeals court to hold Google Inc liable because searches for her name could lead people to advertisements for drugs to treat sexual dysfunction. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago said on Wednesday Beverly…
En Banc Ninth Circuit Holds That Computer Forensic Searches Are Like “Virtual Strip Searches” And Require Reasonable Suspicion At the Border
Orin Kerr on today’s Ninth Circuit en banc opinion in United States v. Cotterman, a case involving border searches of laptops. Today the Ninth Circuit announced a special rule for computer searches: Although a “review of computer files” can occur without reasonable suspicion, the “forensic examination” of a computer at the border requires reasonable suspicion…