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Eugene Volokh: The Dark Side of Privacy Law

Submitted by MacRonin on December 13, 2007 - 3:35pm
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Eugene Volokh: The Dark Side of Privacy Law - Via PogoWasRIght - Privacy News Headlines:

InstaPundit links to a story about someone who was "convicted of violating state wiretapping laws" for "conceal[ing] a camera to videotape a Boston University police sergeant ... during a 2006 political protest."

That's pretty outrageous, but it's entirely consistent with a 2001 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision in Commonwealth v. Hyde, which is based on Massachusetts' extremely broad privacy law...

Source - Huffington Post
Related - Concurring Opinions: Do Police Officers Have a Privacy Right Not to Be Recorded?

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