EFF Fights for Cell Phone Users’ Privacy in Thursday Hearing
Government Should Come Back With a Warrant If It Wants Location Information Philadelphia - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will be arguing this Thursday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit in Philadelphia, urging the court to block a government attempt to seize telephone company records detailing a cell phone user's past locations without first getting a search warrant. EFF is serving as a friend of the court or "amicus," joined by co-amici the ACLU, the ACLU of Pennsylvania, and the Center for Democracy & Technology. Professor Susan Freiwald of the University of San Francisco, who submitted a separate amicus ...
Privacy Rights in Death Photos: Catsouras Case Decided
Daniel Solove writes: Last year, I wrote about a case involving a lawsuit by a family against the California Highway Patrol (CHP) for improperly disseminating the accident-scene photos of their daughter (Nikki Catsouras), who perished in a gruesome automobile accident. Two dispatchers for the CHP emailed the photos to others, and they soon began being posted on the Internet. The family began receiving harassing phone calls. They sued the CHP for public disclosure of private facts, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and a violation of the constitutional right to information privacy. The trial court dismissed the entire complaint. The California court of appeals ...
3rd Circuit to Mull Privacy of Cell Phone Data
Sharon P. Duffy reports: In a case that could prove to be one of the most important privacy rights battles of the modern era, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear argument this week on the proper legal standard to apply when prosecutors demand cell phone location data. The data, which are recorded about once every seven seconds whenever a cell phone is turned on, effectively track the whereabouts and the comings and goings of every cell phone user. Justice Department lawyers argue that, by statute, they need only show "reasonable grounds" to believe that such records are "relevant and material ...
AU: Net piracy fight takes body blow
Asher Moses reports: Hollywood studios and record labels are being forced to go back to the drawing board to come up with a new way of combating online piracy after the Federal Court ruled that internet service providers are not required to police copyright infringement on their networks. The music industry says it may have no choice but to sue individuals for illegal file sharing unless the federal government intervenes with a solution to its piracy woes. All the major film studios sued iiNet in an effort to force the internet service provider to warn and even disconnect customers who repeatedly download movies ...
FBI wants records kept of Web sites visited
Declan McCullagh reports: The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web sites customers visit and retain those logs for two years, a requirement that law enforcement believes could help it in investigations of child pornography and other serious crimes. FBI Director Robert Mueller supports storing Internet users' "origin and destination information," a bureau attorney said at a federal task force meeting on Thursday. As far back as a 2006 speech, Mueller had called for data retention on the part of Internet providers, and emphasized the point two years later when explicitly asking Congress to enact a law making it ...
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Pirate Movie Privacy Case Set For The Norwegian Supreme Courtenigmax blogs: Should copyright holders be allowed to get the identities of Internet...
Lawsuit alleges Cable One eavesdropped on customersTracey Dalzell Walsh reports that Cable One, whose homepage logo says “Watch...
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Federal Claims Whacked From AOL Class ActionAnnie Youderian reports: A federal judge in San Francisco trimmed the federal claims...
Facebook prank a lesson in privacyValerie Fortney writes: … Just last week, Canada’s privacy commissioner...
Germany threatens Google over Street ViewA German government minister has criticized internet giant Google for its Street...
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JM: Privacy breached: Flow clients rail against directory listingsMark Titus reports: Subscribers to Flow’s telephone service are demanding...
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EFF Fights for Cell Phone Users’ Privacy in Thursday Hearing
Government Should Come Back With a Warrant If It Wants Location Information Philadelphia – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will be arguing this Thursday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit in Philadelphia, urging the court to block a government attempt to seize telephone company records detailing a cell phone user’s... [Read more of this story]
Pirate Movie Privacy Case Set For The Norwegian Supreme Court
enigmax blogs: Should copyright holders be allowed to get the identities of Internet users behind an IP-address for private prosecutions, or should that ability be left solely with the police? That’s the key question behind a pivotal hit movie camcorder case which is set to move amid an unusual amount of secrecy to Norway’s Supreme Court. [...] Simonsen,... [Read more of this story]
Lawsuit alleges Cable One eavesdropped on customers
Tracey Dalzell Walsh reports that Cable One, whose homepage logo says “Watch us make you smile,” is being sued for allegedly watching its customers without their consent: A federal class action accuses Internet provider Cable One of “interception and eavesdropping” by installing devices in its broadband network so that NebuAd,... [Read more of this story]
Federal Claims Whacked From AOL Class Action
Annie Youderian reports: A federal judge in San Francisco trimmed the federal claims from a class action accusing AOL of illegally publishing a database of the search queries of more than 650,000 members. A group of California AOL members said the online publication of their queries violated various California consumer protection laws and three federal... [Read more of this story]
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