Today, the Court decided Ontario v. Quon.  At issue was the right of the City of Ontario to read text messages sent by its employee’s on City-issued pagers. In a nutshell, the City issued employees pagers, noticed that the number of messages sent exceeded the plan (although the employees personally paid for overages), and thus…
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The Supremes have denied the ACLU’s appeal of the federal court decision that the organization had no standing to sue, since it cannot prove it has been a victim of warrantless surveillance. As the ACLU points out, this is a Catch-22, since the identities of those who have been spied upon have been kept…
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