The ubiquity of information, coupled with conflicting international laws about privacy, data protection and national security laws, is making litigation a minefield of challenges, attorneys agreed at a panel discussion…
The family of a 17-year-old car crash victim had no right to be notified that his brain had been removed during an autopsy, New York’s highest court has held.
A onetime student leader at the University of Illinois-Chicago was cleared in March in a sexual-assault case alleging that he went beyond what a fellow student agreed to during what…
The Justice Department secretly approved searches of Internet data originating abroad for evidence of hacking by foreign governments, according to new documents from Edward Snowden.
President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed into law the new USA Freedom Act, which bans bulk collection of U.S. cellphone and Internet data by the National Security Agency.
A Florida lawyer is trying to learn the identity of a negative reviewer on Avvo by seeking to enforce a subpoena in Washington state, where the lawyer-rating website is based.
The FBI operates a fleet of low-flying aircraft equipped with video and cellphone surveillance technology that generally gather information without judicial approval, according to an investigative report.
A federal judge has ruled that a genetic privacy law protects two employees who submitted to DNA testing during their employer’s search for a “devious defecator” leaving piles of feces…
Three key provisions of the Patriot Act expired today, forcing terrorism investigators to use more traditional techniques or to rely on a grandfather clause for investigations already underway.
A federal judge has given the green light to a class action alleging Yahoo Inc. invaded the privacy of non-Yahoo account holders by analyzing—for advertising purposes— email they sent to…
Federal law protects Backpage.com in a suit by three women who allege ads on the website facilitated their sale for sex as children, a Boston federal judge has ruled.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill to end mass collection of phone data by the National Security Agency, while still allowing for searches of the data…
A sales executive in Bakersfield, California, claims she was fired because she removed an app from her company-issued cellphone that allowed her boss to track her location 24 hours a…
Federal agents who seized a laptop computer without a warrant at the Los Angeles International Airport may not use the contents in a prosecution against a South Korean businessman, a…
A judge has dismissed a federal lawsuit against “all homosexuals” by a Nebraska woman who claimed to be acting as an ambassador for God and his son, Jesus Christ.