Walter Shapiro writes: The life and death of a 3-year-old members-only online liberal bulletin board is a story that normally would offer all the searing drama of a public television pledge drive. But the sudden collapse of JournoList Friday afternoon — after the private e-mails of Washington Post blogger Dave Weigel were maliciously leaked —…
Category: Breaches
UK: Mosley responds to opposition in privacy fight
Former FIA president Max Mosley continues to pursue the right to privacy that he feels he was denied when sordid stories about his sex life appeared in the media two years ago, despite opposition to his legal crusade. […] Mosley’s bid to have the laws rewritten, however, have naturally faced opposition, with sections of the…
Cn: Man charged for reading colleague’s emails
Jane Chen reports: A Shanghai man is charged with breaching other people’s mail rights for stealing a former colleague’s email account and reading and keeping more than 1,000 emails over six years. A vice chief general manager surnamed Ma learned last July that the company’s crucial business information was for sale, today’s Oriental Morning Post…
Naturalized Iranian Says U.S. Sent Her Personal Info to Russia and Iran
Karina Brown reports: A woman who lived at the meeting place for the al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, which the Bush administration accused of association with Osama bin Laden, says the Department of Justice endangered her and her family by giving copies of her computer hard drives to Russian spies with known ties to the Iranian government….