A 15-year-old Emmaus High School student who admitted in juvenile court Friday that he took hundreds of upskirt photos and videos of female classmates and teachers was electronically shackled by a Lehigh County judge. While his final punishment must still be decided, Judge Kelly L. Banach ordered the Upper Milford Township boy not to use…
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Judge rejects challenge to overseas wiretap law
A judge rejected a challenge to a law letting the United States eavesdrop on overseas conversations Thursday, saying fears by Americans that their conversations will be monitored and their rights violated were ”purely subjective.” U.S. District Judge John Koeltl ruled that the latest version of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act could not be challenged by…
PASS ID: REAL ID reanimated
In February, the opponents of REAL ID were given a bit of hope when Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said that she wanted to repeal the REAL ID Act, the federal government’s failed plan to impose a national identification card through state driver’s licenses. But what has taken place since is no return to sanity,…
Defunct airport fast pass company can’t sell customer data
A federal judge in New York has issued an order banning the operator of a now-defunct registered air traveler program from selling any of the highly personal data it collected on tens of thousands of people who signed up for the program. The order enjoins Verified Identity Pass Inc. (VIP) of New York from selling,…