Heartland Payment Systems CEO Bob Carr is an unlikely spokesman for tech security. But that’s what he’s emerging as. The credit-card processor suffered one of the largest data breaches ever disclosed last year. But rather than taking the time-honored approach of staying quiet and hoping that the negative publicity goes away, Carr is talking openly…
Category: U.S.
‘Chicago Trib’ Sues U of Illinois to Get Grades of Applicants
Continuing its investigation into how sub-par applicants with personal connections were admitted to the University of Illinois, the Chicago Tribune is suing the school demanding the applicants grade-point averages and standardized tests scores. In a lawsuit filed in Sangamon County, Ill., Circuit Court, the Tribune is demanding the U of I immediately fulfill its request…
MS: Teacher Snooped on Facebook, Student Says
From Courthouse News: A high school teacher asked for the password to a student’s Facebook page, and then circulated information from the page to other teachers and school administrators to embarrass, punish and humiliate the girl for a discussion she had had with another student through the site, the girl’s parents say in a constitutional…
No Fourth Amendment right to be presented with a search warrant at the time the search starts
From FourthAmendment.com: there is no Fourth Amendment or state right in Ohio to be presented with a search warrant at the time the search starts: There is no federal or constitutional right to be presented with a search warrant at the time the search begins. Here, the officers who obtained the warrant called ahead to…