Sarah Schulte reports: Hundreds of Chicago Public School parents want to know who gave away their contact information. They said the looming threat of a teacher strike has a charter school network soliciting them to switch schools. A mailer the size of a post card with a glossy cover was [Read More…]
Joe Cadillic sends along this item from TheNewspaper.com: Speed cameras are banned in Virginia, but that did not stop the insurance industry from deploying them on state highways. As part of an effort to promote the issuance of speeding tickets, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) and the for-profit contractor Brekford [Read More…]
I don’t think that basically saying, “Gosh, Your Honor, we had no idea spyware was on the systems we sold” will inspire confidence in potential consumers, but in the meantime, there’s that pesky Article III standing issue Lenovo can use. Matthew Renda reports: Computer manufacturer Lenovo insisted it did not know [Read More…]
At this rate, Joe Cadillic will run out of fingers and toes. He writes: Police and the Border Patrol are using ‘general crime control checkpoints’ to harass and detain motorists across the country. Below, is a list of nine different checkpoints police use, to ticket and arrest citizens. Read his post on MassPrivateI and you’ll [Read More…]