Andy Greenberg reports: It may come as little surprise that every time you cross the border, cameras record your license plate number and feed it into a database of driver locations. More disturbing, perhaps, is the fact that the government seems to share that automobile surveillance data with an unexpected third party: insurance companies. Documents…
Does the Fourth Amendment have a Posse (Comitatus)?
Ryan Calo writes: Earlier this month, U.S. News & World Report ran the following headline: “Court Upholds Domestic Drone Use In Arrest Of American Citizen.” The article goes on to explain that a man was arrested in North Dakota with air support from a Predator B drone on loan from the Department of Homeland Security. His…
Colleges need schooling on privacy law
Lisa Black reports: At college registration this summer, the room went silent when a dad asked the department dean a question that lurked in the back of all our minds: What if our kid doesn’t adjust well? How will we know, short of acting like the dreaded hovering helicopter parent, if our teen is struggling…
Porn pirates set to be outed by German law firm
From the what-could-possibly-go-wrong dept.: A German law firm is threatening to publish a list of people it is accusing of breaching pornography copyright in order to advertise its services – and will start with police stations and church rectories. Using the driest possible legalese, the Urmann and Colleagues (U+C) firm announced on its website on…