EFF has been posting a great series of recaps on the year for civil liberties and privacy issues. If you haven’t checked out their summaries, you’ll definitely want to read these: 2011 in Review: Hacking Law 2011 in Review: Search Incident to Arrest and Your Cell Phone 2011 in Review: Defending Location Privacy in Courts…
Month: December 2011
UK: Media Law Review of the Year 2011: Defamation, Contempt, Privacy and a Public Inquiry
Jude Townend writes: Lord Justice Leveson has heard his final witness of the year; the Parliamentary recess has begun; the Royal Courts of Justice is having its Christmas break. It’s time to look back at some of the biggest moments in the remarkable media law year that was 2011: Super Injunction spring, phone hacking summer, Leveson autumn and…
Court OKs Immunity For Telecoms In Wiretap Case, But Remands Case Against NSA
Jason Dearen of Associated Press reports: A federal appeals court on Thursday said a 2008 law that granted telecommunications companies legal immunity for helping the National Security Agency with an email and telephone eavesdropping program is constitutional. A unanimous three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court ruling that…
You be the judge: how bad was this breach?
Because I’m still troubled by what appears to be minimization of a breach experienced by the New York City Public Advocate‘s office, I’ve decided to disclose some of what was dumped on the web by @LulzOps as part of the #AntiSec movement. I am redacting identifying information, but as you read this, keep in mind…