Law Professor Sherry F. CKolb writes: Last month, in United States v. Maynard, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held that the Fourth Amendment “reasonable search” requirement applies to police when they track the movements of a person’s car via an attached GPS device. In so holding, the D.C. Circuit joined a growing…
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Company Not Responsible for Harassive Comments by Coworker on Personal Facebook Page
Eric Goldman blogs about Amira Jabbar v. Travel Services: Plaintiff brought a hostile work environment claim against her employer. Plaintiff alleged, among other things, that the employer failed to properly investigate derogatory comments made on Facebook. […] The court rejects plaintiff’s claims on summary judgment. With respect to the Facebook comment, the court finds that…
ACLU-NC and EFF Call for Answers About Federal Program Tracking Preschoolers
The ACLU of Northern California (ACLU-NC) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are calling for answers to critical privacy and safety questions that loom over a controversial federal program to track preschoolers with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips at George Miller III Head Start program in Richmond, California. In an open letter to the U.S….
Borderline Privacy
Canadian attorney Michael Power has an interesting article about border searches involving electronic devices that compares the Canadian courts to U.S. law. He writes, in part: The United States has a formal policy on the subject of laptop border searches readily available; Canada doesn’t. We do, however, have case law. In R. v. Simmons, the Supreme Court…