Christopher W. Savage of Davis Wright Tremaine writes: “Privacy, Unmasked” is a multi-part series that explores the impact of COVID-19 on individual privacy rights and privacy and security regulation and enforcement. New blogs will be posted in this space on Tuesdays. States and cities around the country, hopeful that the worst of COVID-19 will soon…
Month: April 2020
Would You Have Fallen for This Phone Scam?
I suspect that readers of this blog tend to be more sophisticated about privacy breaches and scams, but even sophisticated consumers can fall prey. While you’re staying home to save lives, do read this scary column by Brian Krebs on how sophisticated some of these criminals are and how helpless they may leave us feeling. …
Overbroad search of phone unconstitutional: Colorado Supreme Court
Sara Merken reports: A warrant that allowed police to search content on a woman’s cellphone violated the 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution because it was overly broad, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled in affirming a trial court’s order to suppress evidence from the phone. Read more on Reuters.
Federal judge OKs Baltimore aerial surveillance program to proceed
Sara Merken report: A federal judge in Maryland has cleared the way for the Baltimore police department to go ahead with an aerial surveillance pilot program. U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett in Baltimore on Friday denied a bid by local activists backed by the American Civil Liberties Union for a preliminary injunction that sought…