The United States Supreme Court ruled yesterday that background checks conducted on government contractors — which included questions on prior drug use and treatment — by government agencies (in this case, NASA) are reasonable and did…
An article in today’s Washington Post tells the story of a Maryland couple who, after their home was burglarized, activated a GPS tracking service available from Sprint Nextel (their wireless carrier) and gave assistance to local…
With just over a year having passed since the health data breach notification rules mandated by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act went into effect, and interesting contrast has emerged between…
In June, we noted with interest a California federal district court ruling in Crispin v. Christian Audigier that provided an interpretation of the status of social networking sites under the Stored Communications Act (18 U.S.C. §121)…
The United States Supreme Court today granted a petition of certiorari filed by the federal government, seeking to overturn a ruling by the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals that allowed AT&T to prevent the disclosure of…
The previous post looked at some of the variable and as yet unresolved factors that may help determine how and under what circumstances GPS location data may be used for investigations by law enforcement personnel, with…
The 4th Amendment implications of location-based data have been a topic of active discussion, prompted in part by two recent federal Circuit Court rulings, and to a lesser degree by some outspoken opinions made both in…
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