As you can imagine, I’m still getting caught up with all the NSA-related privacy and surveillance news this week. I’ll have more on that later, but it seems that the whistleblower has been identified. Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras that he is Edward Snowden: a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and…
Category: Breaches
Jill Kelley Sues Government For Invading Her Privacy and Trashing Her Reputation During Petraeus Scandal
Quick note: Kashmir Hills of Forbes has a piece on Jill Kelley’s lawsuit against the FBI with a copy of the complaint, here. It seems Kelley trusted the FBI to only look at the emails she approved them looking at when she gave them the login credentials to her email account. The complaint alleges that…
Woman at center of Petraeus scandal, Jill Kelley sues government over breach of privacy
Pete Williams and Andrew Rafferty report: Lawyers for Jill Kelley — the Florida woman whose complaint to federal authorities about harassing emails last year led to the resignation of former CIA Director David Petraeus — on Monday filed a lawsuit claiming the FBI and Department of Defense officials violated her privacy by failing to keep…
Court Grants Final Approval to Class Action Settlement Over AOL’s 2006 Anonymization Failure
Paul Bond and Frederick Lah write: After nearly seven years of litigation, two class actions, and millions of dollars in legal and settlement fees, AOL hopes that it can finally put its infamous anonymization failure incident behind it. On May 24, 2013, a Virginia federal judge gave final approval to a class action settlement between AOL and a class…