(Mike’s Note:   This seems like a crackpot use of an otherwise well-meaning law.  How can the girl be her own victim?  What’s next:  busting onanistic teenage males for sexual abuse of themselves?  There’s got to be a better way.) By Beth DeFalco The Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. — A 14-year-old New Jersey girl has been [...]

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Mike Tully on March 26th, 2009

Commentary by Bruce Schneier In the United States, the concept of “expectation of privacy” matters because it’s the constitutional test, based on the Fourth Amendment, that governs when and how the government can invade your privacy. Based on the 1967 Katz v. United States Supreme Court decision, this test actually has two parts. First, the [...]

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