David Copeland writes: The Bulgarian blogger and digital rights activist who made headlines when he reported acquiring more than one million Facebook data entries said Friday he is cooperating with Facebook as it conducts an internal investigation, but won’t comply with the company’s request to remove blog posts or not talk about the investigation. Good…
NYC officer arrested in ghoulish kidnap plot
Associated Press reports: A city police officer was charged Thursday with leading a ghoulish double life by using a law enforcement database and fetish chat rooms to dream up a plot to torture women and then cook and eat their body parts. Read more on Yahoo! Not surprisingly, there’s a lot of media coverage of this case, but…
Ca: Supreme Court will hear Alberta case on constitutionality of privacy legislation
David T. S. Fraser writes: The Supreme Court of Canada has just granted leave to appeal United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 401 v Alberta (Attorney General). In this case, among other things, the Alberta Court of Appeal found that portions of Alberta’s Personal Information Protection Act were unconstitutional as it does not take into account…
Coast Guard Boardings and Your Fourth Amendment Rights, Part 1
FourthAmendment.com points us to an article by Clark Beek that begins: Sorry, but when it comes to Coast Guard boardings, you don’t have any rights. I’m surprised how many boaters don’t know this. The US Coast Guard can board your boat any time they want, and look anywhere they want, without probable cause or a…