David A. Lieb of Associated Press reports: With its financing in jeopardy, Missouri has slowed work on a high-tech computer program intended to catch potential fraud or criminals by conducting a biometric analysis — or facial recognition — of digital photographs taken for state driver’s licenses and identification cards. Read more on SFGATE.com. Although the main…
Month: April 2013
UK government dumps controversial web snooping bill
Sophie Curtis reports: The UK government has abandoned plans to introduce its controversial Communications Data Bill, better known as the “snooper’s charter,” which would have given security services sweeping powers to monitor internet activity. Speaking on his weekly LBC radio programme, deputy prime minister Nick Clegg said that the bill is “not workable nor proportionate,”…
Twitter settles dispute with Aussie entrepreneur over data access
Gerry Shih reports: Jodee Rich, the Australian entrepreneur who founded the now defunct telco One.Tel, has reached a settlement with Twitter that allows his social media analytics firm PeopleBrowsr to continue to buy Twitter’s data until the end of 2013. Beginning next year, PeopleBrowsr will have to purchase access to the full “Firehose” of 400…
Fascinating New Case on Legal Standards for Searching a Remote Computer With Unknown Location
This definitely doesn’t qualify as BREAKING NEWS, but Orin Kerr disagrees with Magistrate Judge Stephen Smith’s analysis of a government application to hack a hacker’s computer. You can read Orin’s commentary on Volokh Conspiracy.