Following up a case covered previously on this blog. Karen Boros reports: A former police officer — who accused cops from across the Twin Cities of invasion of privacy when they inappropriately accessed her driver’s license information — will receive $392,500 from Minneapolis. Anne Marie Rasmusson, a one-time St. Paul and Eden Prairie police officer,…
Category: U.S.
Argument recap: Sensitive to lawyers’ dilemma
Lyle Denniston reports on oral argument in the Supreme Court this morning: The Supreme Court showed Monday that it is genuinely troubled that the govenment, carrying on a sweeping program of wiretaps seeking to track terrorism activity, may be putting lawyers in a serious professional and ethical bind as they represent individuals potentially caught up in that eavesdropping. It…
Privacy concerns grow over FBI data gathering
Siddhartha Mahanta of The American Independent writes: In July, Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., opened a Senate hearing on the privacy and civil liberties implications of facial-recognition technology by affirming some incontrovertible facts. “You can change your password. You can get a new credit card. But you can’t change your fingerprint, and you can’t change your…
UNC will release records to media group as part of settlement in FERPA case
The Student Press Law Center reports: A two-year battle for documents detailing an investigation in NCAA violations is over, with public records being released to The Daily Tar Heel and other media organizations today and in the coming days. The eight media outlets will receive the records after agreeing to a settlement with the University…