Illinois AG sues ID Lifeguards for fake charges on residents’ phone bills
September 2, 2010 by Dissent
Filed under Businesses, Court
First Lifelock got into trouble over its business practices. Now it’s ID Lifeguards. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today filed a lawsuit in Sangamon County Circuit Court alleging that a Web-based California business signed up and charged thousands of Illinois consumers for identity protection... Read more...
Macmillan pays heavily for violation of privacy
September 2, 2010 by Dissent
Filed under Businesses, Court, Non-U.S.
Gowenius Toka reports: Botswana’s popular publishing company, Macmillan Botswana, avoided being arraigned before the Lobatse High Court last week by settling out of court, after publishing without consent, the photo of a certain Botsanyang Motswere in a school textbook under a chapter on HIV and... Read more...
FISA Court Proposes New Court Rules
September 2, 2010 by Dissent
Filed under Court, Featured Headlines, Surveillance
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... Read more...
Opinion: “Privacy, Parliament and the Courts” – Mark Thomson
A constant theme of the recent press discussion of “sportsman’s privacy injunctions” has been the suggestion that judges have created a privacy law by stealth and that this raises serious questions about democratic accountability. I have already commented on some of the issues arising from... Read more...
Facebook CEO wants private life kept out of ownership challenge
September 1, 2010 by Dissent
Filed under Court, Featured Headlines, Internet
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... Read more...