Colin Lecher says the answer may depend on a case before the Supreme Court. Brandi Levy was a Pennsylvania high school student when she sent a fateful, expletive-filled Snapchat in 2017. Levy had made her school’s junior varsity cheerleading team freshman year, with hopes to make the full varsity team as a sophomore. But after…
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USA Today fights subpoena aimed at readers of Florida FBI shooting story
Josh Gerstein reports: Newspaper publisher Gannett is fighting an effort by the FBI to try to determine who read a specific USA Today story about a deadly shooting in February near Fort Lauderdale, Fla., that left two FBI agents dead and three wounded. The subpoena, served on Gannett in April, seeks information about who accessed the…
Massachusetts School Committee Allows Real-Time Crime Center To Monitor Students Live
Joe Cadillic writes: How does a school committee respond to a year of remote student learning? How will the Springfield, MA School Committee respond to post-COVID schooling? Now that public schools are reopening (just in time for summer vacation) what are officials worried about? Is it face-to-face learning? Is it in-person interactions with students? Nope,…
The War Over Genetic Privacy Is Just Beginning
John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead comment: “When you upload your DNA, you’re potentially becoming a genetic informant on the rest of your family.”— Law professor Elizabeth Joh “Guilt by association” has taken on new connotations in the technological age. All of those fascinating, genealogical searches that allow you to trace your family tree by…