Ethics

Scalia's Privacy Problem

By Ed Brayton

I had about 10 people email me about this story. A law professor at Fordham does a project with his class every year, having them use the internet to compile private information on someone - without paying for any information or doing anything illegal. He usually uses himself as the subject, challenging his students to find out everything they can about him. But this year he had a new target in mind: Justice Antonin Scalia.

This year, after U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made public comments that seemingly may have questioned the need for more protection of private information, Reidenberg assigned the same project. Except this time Scalia was the subject, the prof explains to the ABA Journal in a telephone interview.

His class turned in a 15-page dossier that included not only Scalia's home address, home phone number and home value, but his food and movie preferences, his wife's personal e-mail address and photos of his grandchildren, reports Above the Law.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 06, 2009 (boomark / email).