FourthAmendment.com informs us of a court opinion in United States v. Cowart, Eastern District Tennessee that held that a grandson living in a grandparent’s house had no legally cognizable expectation of privacy. From the court opinion: Cowart had no property interest in the area in which he lived, whether a tenancy or freehold estate. While…
Indiana Sues ‘Robo-Call’ Violator
WIBC reports that Indiana’s Attorney General’s has filed a lawsuit against Texas-based Association Health Care Management, Inc. over robo-calls. Indiana has a state Auto Dialer Act that requires that a live operator obtain the consumer’s permission before playing the recorded message. This is not the first time that Association Health Care Management, Inc. has run…
Review-Journal resists subpoena for info of online commenters
As a follow-up to a story I posted last week, the Las Vegas Review-Journal is planning to go to court later this week to try to quash a subpoena requiring them to turn over identifying information on all site visitors who posted comments on one particular news story about a federal criminal tax trial: The…
Gmail To Get More Protection From Snoops
A group of 38 computer scientists, law professors and security experts is urging Google to do to more to protect Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs from snooping. Specifically, the group is asking Google to use a standard encryption technology, known as HTTPS, that is commonly used by online banks and other Web sites to…