Laura Glendinning reports: San Jose knows the way. . . to get it all on camera. 18 helmet cameras are being put into use in San Jose in a test program aimed at reducing escalating violence in arrests and general public interactions. The department has been under fire for a number of alleged abuses of…
Israeli police gun down Macbook at border
Speaking of border searches involving laptops, have you read this story by Bar Ben Ari and Or Hirshauga: An American student entering Israel from Egypt via the border crossing at Taba two weeks ago stood stunned as Israeli Border Police officers determined her laptop computer was a security threat and shot it three times. Lily…
Canadian court orders litigant to request her Facebook records from ISP
Toronto attorney Dan Michaluk blogs: On December 2nd, the New Brunswick Court of Queen’s bench ordered a plaintiff in a disability insurance claim to obtain “a history of her computer account use” from her ISP and “request” her ISP to generate a record accounting for her FaceBook use. The case is Carter v. Connors, 2009…
Library Groups Ask Justice Department To Supervise Institutional Pricing for Google Book Database
In a letter (PDF) to the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the American Library Association (ALA), the Association of College and Research Libraries, and the Association of Research Libraries, say “active supervision of the settlement by the court and the United States will protect the public interest far more than any…