Kevin Poulsen reports: Secure e-mail provider Lavabit just filed the opening brief in its appeal of a court order demanding it turn over the private SSL keys that protected all web traffic to the site. The government proposed to examine and copy Lavabit’s most sensitive, closely guarded records–its private keys–despite the fact that those keys…
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Google Wins Dismissal of Suit Over Web Browser Cookies
Phil Milford reports that Google won dismissal of In re Google Cookie Placement Consumer Privacy Litigation, 12-md-02358, U.S. District Court, District of Delaware: “Google did not intercept contents as provided for by the Wiretap Act,” U.S. District Judge Sue L. Robinson in Wilmington, Delaware, said in her opinion. The users also didn’t “demonstrate that Google intercepted any…
NSA tries to regain industry’s trust to work cooperatively against cyber-threats
Ellen Nakashima reports: A drop in Americans’ trust in the government is making the difficult task of public-private cooperation against cyber-threats even more difficult. And that has officials such as Gen. Keith B. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, scrambling to shore up confidence in his agency, whose image has taken a beating in…
Manitoba Joins The Ranks Of Other Provinces In Enacting Its Own Private Sector Privacy Legislation
Daniel G. C. Glover and Roland Hung of McCarthy Tétrault LLP write: The Government of Manitoba recently enacted the Personal Information Protection and Identity Theft Prevention Act (PIPITPA) to regulate the collection, use and disclosure of personal information by the private sector in Manitoba.1The statute has not come into force, but this enactment is momentous, as it…