Jennifer Granick writes: Yesterday, Judge Kaplan of the Southern District of New York dismissed the complaint in Hubbard v. Myspace. Hubbard is the latest case to reject the claim that a social network violated the Stored Communications Act (“SCA”) by disclosing certain user information pursuant to law enforcement demands. Last month, this firm won a similar…
Category: U.S.
The crooks who created modern wiretapping law
Matthew Lasar writes: Meet Roy Olmstead and Charles Katz—one was a Prohibition era bootlegger, the other a ’60s gambler. Neither did anything earthshaking with their lives, but history remembers them both because their arrests, based on warrantless telephone taps, reached the United States Supreme Court. In the two cases that resulted, the Supremes took starkly…
Lawyer Asks: Did The New York Times Violate A 1986 Law For Its “Fabulous Fab” Story?
Katya Wachtel reports: This morning the New York Times published a huge story about Goldman Sachs trader, Fabrice Tourre, and the peculiarity of him being the only Wall Streeter to be prosecuted for creating and selling shoddy mortgage securities. One of the most interesting parts of the story, however, is the way in which the…
Unmasking “Secret Law”: New Demand for Answers About the Government’s Hidden Take on the Patriot Act
As I hoped, the ACLU has filed a FOIA request about the “secret” interpretation of the PATRIOT Act that Senators Wyden and Udall referred to during the renewal debate in Congress: In the days before last week’s Patriot Act reauthorization vote, members of the Senate Intelligence Committee raised concerns — see here and here —…