John Cox of Network World reports: A middle school honor student who was expelled after authorities searched his cell phone and found evidence of what they claimed were “gang-related activities” now has a lawyer: the American Civil Liberties Union. The Mississippi ACLU this week filed a federal civil rights lawsuit, arguing that the 2008 cell…
Feds ask appeals court to stay drug decision
USA Today has a story by Ronald Blum of the Associated Press reporting that federal prosecutors have asked an appeals court to stay its decision [pdf] that government agents illegally seized the drug testing records and samples of more than 100 major league baseball players (see this post for previous coverage of the decision and…
LifeLock loses another round in court
Experian has issued a press release indicating that a federal court in California has denied LifeLock’s request to reconsider a ruling which found that LifeLock’s practice of setting 90-day fraud alerts on Experian and other credit bureaus was unlawful: Experian® today announced that a federal court in California denied a motion by LifeLock Inc. to…
Google pledges more blurring in Switzerland
In response to Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner Hanspeter Thür’s recent demand that Google “immediately withdraw its online service Google Street View concerning Switzerland,” Google has met with the Commissioner and has been working to blur the images more. It seems that “immediately withdraw” doesn’t necessarily mean “immediately withdraw,” and may have just…