Timothy B. Lee writes: When Wayne Rogers, a New Jersey teacher, sat down in his school’s computer lab to check his e-mail, he bumped the mouse of the computer next to him. The screen on the adjacent computer came on, and Rogers saw that one of his colleagues, Linda Marcus, had left herself logged into…
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More Demands on Cell Carriers in Surveillance (updated)
Eric Lichtblau reports: In the first public accounting of its kind, cellphone carriers reported that they responded to a startling 1.3 million demands for subscriber information last year from law enforcement agencies seeking text messages, caller locations and other information in the course of investigations. […] AT&T alone now responds to an average of more…
California Court Suspends Sacramento Judge’s Order For Juror Facebook Postings
From AP, the latest in the “Juror Number One” case: The California Supreme Court has suspended a Sacramento judge’s order requiring a juror to submit his Facebook postings about a criminal trial so the judge could decide if the juror’s comments constituted misconduct. The justices on Monday granted the juror, Arturo Ramirez, a temporary stay…
Teacher smelling of alcohol could be required to take breathalyzer test at work
FourthAmendment.com alerts us to this workplace-related case: An elementary school teacher who showed up at work with the smell of alcohol about her person was reasonable suspicion not probable cause. Under the reasonableness special needs standard, a Breathalyzer test was reasonable because elementary school teachers have a reduced expectation of privacy at work. Read more…