FISA Court Proposes New Court Rules
Steven Aftergood writes: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has proposed new rules to comply with the provisions of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008. The Court reviews government applications for intelligence surveillance and physical search under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The proposed FISA Court rules (pdf) provide new procedures by which telecommunications companies can petition the Court to modify or dismiss a court order or a directive from the Attorney General or the DNI requiring them to assist in electronic surveillance, to provide “any tangible thing,” or to adhere to a nondisclosure requirement ...
Can Privacy Sell Ping?
Riva Richmond reports: Apple moved quickly to allay potential concerns about information privacy on Wednesday when it introduced Ping, its music-focused social-networking service for the 160 million users of its iTunes service. Speaking at an event in San Francisco, Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, promised the company would include straightforward and simple privacy controls. Anyone will be able to follow bands, and users will be able to say whether anyone can follow them or only people they approve. Read more in the New York Times.
Facebook CEO wants private life kept out of ownership challenge
This will tickle some readers' irony bone. Jonathan Stempel reports: Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg says a lawsuit by a man who claims to own a huge chunk of the popular social networking website is seeking to uncover needless details about his private life. Zuckerberg is fighting a civil lawsuit filed by Paul Ceglia, an upstate New York resident who claims an 84 per cent stake in the privately-held company, believed to be worth several billion dollars. Ceglia, an owner of a wood pellet fuel company who lives in Wellsville, New York, is trying to return the case to a New York state ...
Lower Merion must pay $260k to student’s lawyer in webcam case
John P. Martin reports: A federal judge Monday ordered the Lower Merion School District to pay about $260,000 now - and potentially much more later - to the lawyer who brought the lawsuit over the district's webcam monitoring. In a 14-page opinion, Senior U.S. District Judge Jan E. DuBois said Mark S. Haltzman deserved to be paid for work that led to a preliminary injunction against the district in May. And he said Haltzman could submit the rest of his bills when the case ended. Read more on Philly.com. It's not clear to me whether the district will actually be stuck with the bill ...
India Threatens Ban On Google, Skype
Paul McDougall reports: Having given RIM a 60-day reprieve from a ban on Blackberry messaging traffic, Indian authorities have now set their sites on Google and Skype. As they did with RIM, authorities in the country are demanding access to data that flows across Google's and Skype's servers. "The notices to these entities will be issued beginning Tuesday and all of them will be asked to comply with the directive or else they will have to close down their networks," a senior government official said, according to The Times of India. Read more on InformationWeek.
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FISA Court Proposes New Court Rules
Steven Aftergood writes: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has proposed new rules to comply with the provisions of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008. The Court reviews government applications for intelligence surveillance and physical search under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The proposed FISA Court rules (pdf) provide... [Read more of this story]
Can Privacy Sell Ping?
Riva Richmond reports: Apple moved quickly to allay potential concerns about information privacy on Wednesday when it introduced Ping, its music-focused social-networking service for the 160 million users of its iTunes service. Speaking at an event in San Francisco, Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, promised the company would include straightforward... [Read more of this story]
Facebook CEO wants private life kept out of ownership challenge
This will tickle some readers’ irony bone. Jonathan Stempel reports: Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg says a lawsuit by a man who claims to own a huge chunk of the popular social networking website is seeking to uncover needless details about his private life. Zuckerberg is fighting a civil lawsuit filed by Paul Ceglia, an upstate New... [Read more of this story]
Lower Merion must pay $260k to student’s lawyer in webcam case
John P. Martin reports: A federal judge Monday ordered the Lower Merion School District to pay about $260,000 now – and potentially much more later – to the lawyer who brought the lawsuit over the district’s webcam monitoring. In a 14-page opinion, Senior U.S. District Judge Jan E. DuBois said Mark S. Haltzman deserved to be paid for... [Read more of this story]
India Threatens Ban On Google, Skype
Paul McDougall reports: Having given RIM a 60-day reprieve from a ban on Blackberry messaging traffic, Indian authorities have now set their sites on Google and Skype. As they did with RIM, authorities in the country are demanding access to data that flows across Google’s and Skype’s servers. “The notices to these entities will be... [Read more of this story]
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