Claire Cain Miller reports: In a secret court in Washington, Yahoo’s top lawyers made their case. The government had sought help in spying on certain foreign users, without a warrant, and Yahoo had refused, saying the broad requests were unconstitutional. The judges disagreed. That left Yahoo two choices: Hand over the data or break the law….
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Dark clouds loom over Google in the EU as Swedish data regulator kills a Google Apps deal
Robin Wauters writes: In what seems to have garnered precious little attention, Sweden’s data protection agency earlier this week ruled to (again) disallow an agreement between a tiny municipality and Google for the use of cloud services, such as Google Apps, within the public body. The Swedish data regulator had requested changes in the agreement between Google and the…
Appeals Court Rejects ComScore’s Privacy Case Appeal
Wendy Davis reports: In a blow to comScore, a federal appellate court has refused to hear the company’s appeal an appeal (sic) of a trial judge’s decision allowing consumers to proceed with a class-action privacy lawsuit. The ruling, issued by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday, means that the lawsuit against the Web…
Google’s Real Secret Spy Program? Secure FTP
Kim Zetter got a great scoop today: Google does not participate in any government program involving a lockbox or other equipment installed at its facilities to transfer court-ordered data to the government, a company spokesman says, refuting with some finality one of the lingering theories about the NSA’s PRISM program. Instead the company transmits FISA…