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UK: Google executives questioned by MPs over privacy

I’m still getting caught up with news after being offline so much. Here’s... 

Google: Here’s the real truth about Microsoft’s privacy claims about us

Preston Gralla reports: Microsoft has launched an all-out public assault on Google’s... 

The right to be forgotten, or how to edit your history

Peter Fleischer writes: The “Right to be Forgotten” is a very successful... 

Another subpoena to Twitter for Occupy related account

sosadmin writes: Twitter today informed user @destructuremal that the State of New... 

UK: Independent scrutiny of database will not breach privacy rights, High Court says

A trade union has been ordered to let an independent expert examine its computer... 

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Surveillance

A Reasonableness Approach to Searches After the Jones GPS Tracking Case

Peter Swire writes, in part: The proposal here is that the answer lies in addressing... 

NH: House Bill Would Outlaw GPS Tracking

Sam Evans-Brown reports: The state House of Representatives has passed a bill that... 

Official Assails Sharing of Passenger Data

James Kanter reports: Raising the stakes in a trans-Atlantic struggle over data privacy,... 

Feds: We obtained MegaUpload conversations with search warrant

Greg Sandoval and Declan McCullagh report: One of the most curious aspects of the... 

Group Sues for Info on Government Surveillance of Wikileaks Supporters

Iulia Filip reports: A nonprofit government watchdog claims the FBI refuses to release... 

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Featured News

Federal court – warrantless search of protestor’s video cam violated Fourth Amendment Federal court – warrantless search of protestor’s video cam violated Fourth Amendment

FourthAmendment.com points to a recent news story out of Oregon that searching a videocam without a warrant, even incident to an arrest, is a Fourth Amendment violation.  Bryan Denson reports: The rules of engagement became clearer in Eugene’s U.S. District Court last week, when a civil jury determined that a city police sergeant violated an... [Read more of this story]

California family settles lawsuit over leaked crash images California family settles lawsuit over leaked crash images

Dan Whitcomb of Reuters reports a settlement in a precedent-setting case I’ve been covering for the past several years: The family of a teen whose mangled corpse was shown in horrific car-crash photos that went viral online has settled a lawsuit against the California Highway Patrol for $2.37 million, ending a 5-year legal battle that changed... [Read more of this story]

Another subpoena to Twitter for Occupy related account Another subpoena to Twitter for Occupy related account

sosadmin writes: Twitter today informed user @destructuremal that the State of New York had issued a subpoena for his account information. The account holder, Malcolm Harris of New York City, is an Occupy Wall Street activist who has been involved in movement organizing since at least September 2011. Read more on PrivacySOS. The subpoena says: TWITTER... [Read more of this story]

FDA workers sue agency over monitoring personal e-mails FDA workers sue agency over monitoring personal e-mails

Ellen Nakashima and Lisa Rein report: The Food and Drug Administration secretly monitored the personal e-mail of a group of its own scientists and doctors after they warned Congress that the agency was approving medical devices that posed unacceptable risks to patients, government documents show. The surveillance — detailed in e-mails and memos unearthed... [Read more of this story]

First rulings in our lawsuit over DHS travel records First rulings in our lawsuit over DHS travel records

From The Identity Project U.S. District Court Judge Richard Seeborg has issued his first rulings inHasbrouck v. CBP, our lawsuit seeking information from and about DHS records of the travels of individual US citizens. Judge Seeborg granted some of the government’s motions for summary judgment and some of ours, ordered US Customs and Border Protection... [Read more of this story]

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