Your Laptop is NOT Private or Secure at US Customs
The Ninth Circuit has held that it is the right of the United States government to seize a digital device at a border crossing*, transport it to a secondary location, and retain the data from the device indefinitely until it can be accessed. It has been true...Then Again, Maybe Wikipedia IS a Proper Legal Authority
Surprise, surprise, Courts seem to be split on the issue of whether or not Wikipedia is a proper legal source. In the previous post, people were discussing this link on Wikipedia: Which is a listing of holdings from Courts that have cited Wikipedia in various...Reminder From Fed. Dist. Court: Wikipedia is Not a Proper Legal Authority
Just saw this over at Legal Writing Prof Blog. The court notes here that defense counsel appears to have cobbled much of his statement of the law governing ineffective assistance of counsel claims by cutting and pasting, without citation, from the Wikipedia web...Need to Solve a Problem? Pretend You’re Someone Else.
When approaching a complex situation that requires a creative solution, some leading research points to a novel approach to problem solving. Don’t solve the problem based on how you would solve it, but instead pretend to be someone else and solve it from their...Email Privacy Protected by 4th Amendment
From the EFF Deeplinks blog, in the matter of US v. Warshak: As the Court held today, Given the fundamental similarities between email and traditional forms of communication [like postal mail and telephone calls], it would defy common sense to afford emails lesser...Sidebar
