Workplace privacy issues seem to be back in the legal news this week. David. G. Savage of the Baltimore Sun reports on a case before the U.S. Supreme Court you may want to know about if you send text messages on employer-provided devices: Workplace rights advocates are closely following a California case now before the…
District Court Finds Personal E-Mail From Work Still Privileged
Tresa Baldas reports: A federal prosecutor has won his fight to conceal e-mails he sent to his attorney over the government’s computers, contradicting a popular belief that employees have no expectation of privacy on work computers. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled on Dec. 10 that Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Tukel…
AU: Human rights? Sorry, we’d rather strip-search children
Chris Berg writes in The Age: What’s the point of having a charter of human rights if it just gets ignored? The Summary Offences and Control of Weapons Acts Amendment 2009 is burrowing its way through State Parliament at the moment. Designed to tackle ”knife violence”, this bill will give police an extraordinary new array…
Tiger Woods’s UK court injunction ignored by non-UK media
I’ve blogged a few times about how non-U.S. injunctions are ignored in the U.S. Here’s another example: although U.K. High Court Justice David Eady issued an injunction barring unnamed parties X and Y in the U.K. from publishing nude photos of Tiger Woods — and from even revealing any information on the order itself —…