U.S. District Judge Harvey Bartle III ruled that the New Jersey judicial privacy and security measure known as Daniel's Law is constitutional.
Representing Atlas Data Privacy Corp., BSF and co-counsel have filed more than 150 lawsuits seeking to enforce Daniel’s Law on behalf more than 20,000 New Jersey police officers and other law enforcement personnel alleging that data brokers failed to comply with Daniel’s Law. Judge Bartle determined that the law, which allows judges, law enforcement officers, and other officials to request to have their personal information taken down online and imposes civil penalties for failing to do so, can stand up to the required scrutiny of a privacy law because it does not block information that is of public interest. The order denied the 37 data brokers' consolidated motion to dismiss Atlas' Daniel's Law complaints on facial constitutionality grounds. New Jersey Law Journal and Law360 reported on the ruling.
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