Personal Identifying Information
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Colorado justices point to quirk in identity theft law, agree man’s conviction cannot stand
The Colorado Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday that a man could not stand convicted of identity theft for using the “personal identifying information” of a nonprofit entity, rather than a human being. The state’s identity theft law applies to people who, without authorization, use the financial identifying information or personal identifying information “of another” to obtain something…
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Colorado Supreme Court weighs meaning of ‘personal identifying information’
Members of the Colorado Supreme Court pondered on Thursday whether “personal identifying information” under the state’s identity theft law only encompasses humans, or if businesses can have personal identifying information, too. The government argued legislators enacted the identity theft law in 2006 to deter fraudulent conduct, and the meaning of personal identifying information should be…
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Federal judge dismisses challenge to Colorado law prohibiting online posting of police officers’ personal info
A federal judge last week dismissed a man’s constitutional challenge to a Colorado law prohibiting the online dissemination of certain personal identifying information, while simultaneously noting the law did not appear to criminalize the man’s objective of posting details about one specific state trooper. Andrew Thomas Scott is a process server who attempted to deliver…