Counterterrorism adviser John Brennan wasn’t enthusiastic when King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia suggested a way to keep track of Guantanamo detainees who are released to foreign countries where terrorist groups…
The U.S. Supreme Court hasn’t ruled on the constitutionality of new airport screening technology that produces revealing body images and the alternative full-body pat downs, but one justice has looked…
Following several embarrassing incidents in which prisoners walked out of New York courts–one involving an inmate who successfully pretended to be a lawyer–a new policy has been put in place…
The case of two college students who used a computer to spy on a gay student’s romantic encounter could be the first legal test of New Jersey’s 2003 invasion of…
After an admission by Google Inc. last week that the cars collecting data for its Street View mapping service inadvertently snared some entire e-mails and passwords from unsecured wireless computer…
Researchers from Microsoft and Germany’s Max Planck Institute reported in a recent paper that there are Facebook advertisements targeted to users based on sexuality, regardless of the user’s display preferences—and…
A federal magistrate judge found an Oregon disability claims lawyer guilty of disorderly conduct and sentenced him to a year of probation and an anger management course after a three-year…
Overturning a lower court order requiring a Muslim woman to remove her niqab before testifying against two male relatives at a sexual assault trial, the Ontario Court of Appeal has…
An amended lawsuit claims Facebook disclosed users’ personal information to advertisers when it began embedding additional data in website addresses in February.
The suit by two Facebook users claims advertisers…
Supreme Court justices appeared ready to reject a claim by contract scientists working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory that a government background questionnaire violated their First Amendment right to informational…
Hulk Hogan has settled a lawsuit claiming Post Foods misappropriated his likeness in an advertisement for Cocoa Pebbles featuring a character called “Hulk Boulder.”
Updated: Two classmates are accused of secretly live-streaming a New Jersey college student’s gay sexual encounter days before he committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge into the…
By placing her physical condition at issue in a tort claim over a fall from an office chair at work, a woman effectively waived any expectation of privacy in her…