JoAnn Seltzer reports: A proposal to allow the health board to establish penalties and remedies in pandemics drew questions by the City Council Monday. During a workshop session, Councilman Dick Dornisch said he has problems with the proposed ordinance. It would give the health board powers to prevent and control the spread of the disease….
Louis Brandeis and the Development of the Right to Privacy
From the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy: Nearly 120 years ago, modern privacy law took root with the publication of Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis’s seminal article, The Right to Privacy. At the time, more than 25 years before Brandeis took his seat on the Supreme Court, he was focused on the invasions…
EU: Telcos’ data breach notification amendment is passed
From Out-Law.com: The European Council has approved a data breach notification rule for Europe’s telecoms firms. The amendment to an EU Directive will force telcos to tell customers if they lose their data. The European Parliament and Commission have already approved the amendments, which will become law after it has been published in the EU’s…
New York Court Scores Over Oregon In Recent Email Privacy Opinions
Jennifer Granick of the Electronic Frontier Foundation provides some legal analysis of recent court decisions involving stored email communications. Last week, two new district court opinions took opposing views on the question of whether the Fourth Amendment protects stored email. One of the cases easily adopted the prevailing view that the Constitution protects electronic communications,…