David Kravets reports: A 22-year veteran kindergarten teacher in the Texas Bible Belt could lose her job for refusing, on religious grounds, to give fingerprints under a state law requiring them. The evangelical Christian, Pam McLaurin, is fighting a looming suspension, claiming that fingerprinting amounts to the “Mark of the Beast,” and hence is a…
Microsoft Expresses Cloud Privacy Commitment, Concerns
Thomas Claburn reports: Cloud computing continues evoke privacy concerns, so Microsoft has published a position paper that attempts to address the questions it’s been hearing. The paper’s publication coincides with the 31st International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, which is taking place this week in Madrid, Spain. “We know that cloud computing is…
Two Battles Won: PATRIOT Reform AND State Secrets Reform Bills Pass House Committee
Kevin Bankston of EFF reports some good news in the House of Representatives: After a long two days of legislative battle, the House Judiciary Committee just finished its second day of debate on Chairman Conyers’ PATRIOT reform bill, HR 3845 (see our wrap-up of the first day). Thanks in no small part to those of…
UPDATE: Professor dismisses lawsuit against Above the Law
As a follow-up to a case previously covered here, and in what may well be a response to the significant criticism of the lawsuit by the blawgosphere, Professor Donald Marvin Jones, a law professor at the University of Miami School of Law, voluntarily dismissed his lawsuit against David Lat, David Minkin and the Above the…