Christopher Wolf writes on the Chronicle of Data Protection: The University of Denver Law Review today presented a Syposium on “Cyber Civil Rights: New Challenges for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in Our Networked Age.” Hogan & Hartson partner (and privacy group co-chair) Christopher Wolf delivered remarks on “Accountability for Online Hate Speech: What Are…
Court: TSA went too far in searching luggage
FourthAmendment.com brings us news of a court opinion that Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees engaged in an unreasonable search of a passenger’s luggage and that the child pornography they uncovered should be suppressed. In United States v. McCarty, the court held: Despite the testimony indicating that the TSA employees searched the photographs solely to determine…
$6M verdict upheld in McDonald’s strip search case
Brett Barrouquere of the Associated Press reports: A Kentucky appeals court upheld a $6.1 million award to a former fast food worker who was forced to strip in a McDonald’s restaurant office after someone called posing as a police officer. The appellate court on Friday ruled that Illinois-based McDonald’s Corp., knew about a series of…
Editorial: Speech and privacy
The following editorial appeared in the Providence Journal: It may have been mere incompetence, but it is chilling that the Obama Justice Department sent a subpoena for an undeclared reason to an Internet news site, Indymedia.us, demanding records of all traffic to that site on June 25, 2008. Even more ominously, it demanded “all other…