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• Law would tighten the leash LONDON British dog owners may be forced to microchip their pets and take out insurance, part of a proposed crackdown on the country's dangerous canines. Postmen are delighted, but civil libertarians grumble that Britain's sprawling surveillance state...
  March 10, 2010 2:00 AM
• LifeLock to pay $12 million to settle deceptive-ad claims Ads were too good to be true, FTC head and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan say On his TV commercials, LifeLock chief executive officer Todd Davis claimed that, for $10 a month, his company could "guarantee" its customers wouldnt become victims of...
  March 9, 2010 8:57 AM
• Former Law Enforcement Analyst Sentenced for Harassing Former Girlfriend and Falsely Implicating Her in a Drug Investigation BOSTON, March 9 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release: A former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) task force analyst was sentenced today in federal court to 18 months imprisonment, for illegally accessing driver's license records, wire fraud and lying and altering records in a federal investigation. United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz and Glenn A. Fine, Inspector General of the United States Department of Justice's Office of the...
  March 9, 2010 10:33 PM
• Crist takes issue with bill to exempt 911 calls from disclosure By Michael Peltier The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE A measure to exempt 911 recordings from public records laws may pit the House sponsor against the governor, a fellow Republican, as lawmakers debate whether they can protect privacy while...
  March 9, 2010 3:13 PM
• LifeLock Will Pay $12 Million to Settle Charges by the FTC and 35 States That Identity Theft Prevention and Data Security Claims Were False WASHINGTON, March 9 -- The Federal Trade Commission issued the following news release: LifeLock, Inc. has agreed to pay $11 million to the Federal Trade Commission and $1 million to a group of 35 state attorneys general to settle charges that the company used false claims to promote its identity theft protection services, which it widely advertised by displaying the CEO's Social Security number on the side of a truck. In one of the largest FTC-state coordinated settlements on record, LifeLock...
  March 9, 2010 8:14 PM
• New Albany standoff ends peacefully A 27-year-old man surrendered peacefully after a two-hour standoff with police in New Albany on Tuesday, according to law enforcement authorities. The standoff occurred in the Southern Estates subdivision, Floyd County Sheriff Darrell Mills said. Police...
  March 9, 2010 4:27 PM
• Spouses have bathroom privacy rights, Minnesota appeals court says: Princeton man had no right to secretly videotape his wife Mar. 10--Beware, guys: That wedding ring does not give you the OK to secretly videotape your wife disrobing in the bathroom.The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled that a spouse has a "reasonable expectation of privacy" when alone in her home bathroom."A spouse does not lose all claims to privacy through previously sharing some intimate information, activity or viewing with the other spouse," Judge Doris Ohlsen Huspeni wrote for a three-judge panel that included judges Terri Stoneburner...
  March 9, 2010 9:10 PM
• Spouses have bathroom privacy rights, Minnesota appeals court says Beware, guys: That wedding ring does not give you the OK to secretly videotape your wife disrobing in the bathroom. The Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled that a spouse has a "reasonable expectation of privacy" when alone in her home bathroom. "A...
  March 9, 2010 7:34 PM
• Do you have a question for Liberty's lawyers? | Liberty Clinic Post your civil liberties and human rights queries here to be answered by Liberty's lawyers In this week's Liberty Clinic, James Welch responds to politicalactivist's query about the Regulation of Investigators Powers Act (Ripa) politicalactivist...
  March 10, 2010 3:58 AM
• Administrative Changes Can Benefit Immigration System, Martin Says CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., March 8 -- The University of Virginia issued the following news release: Though comprehensive legislation would provide the best fix for the country's immigration system, administrative reforms can accomplish much in the interim, University of Virginia law professor David Martin said recently. Martin, who is on a leave of absence to serve as principal deputy counsel at the Department of Homeland Security, spoke to students and faculty at an March 1 event sponsored...
  March 10, 2010 12:45 AM