Another Judge Rules Against Compelled Biometric Cellphone Unlocks

A second judge has ruled that having to use biometrics, such as a fingerprint or your face, to unlock your cellphone when you’ve been accused of a crime is a violation of the person’s Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.
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Supreme Court Rules Against E-Discovery Costs

After years of encouraging litigants to use electronic discovery on court documents, the Supreme Court has recently ruled that, well, you can, but you can’t count on getting reimbursed for it by the losing litigant, and now people are freaking out how to get it paid for. It all started in 2010...
Vibrator Data is Protected Content, Judge Rules

In case you’re curious, stored data about the intensity with which you like to use a vibrator has now been ruled to be communications “content.” It’s true. It was ruled on by a judge and everything. Most...
The Strange Case of Seattle University’s ‘Lost’ Laptop

There’s been another case of Companies Behaving Badly with customer data: In this particular case, Seattle University's "lost" laptop. “On March 28, 2019, Seattle University was informed by an employee that an unencrypted university-issued laptop was lost while the employee was commuting on...