AFP reports: Research In Motion vowed Tuesday to defend the legal privacy rights of BlackBerry users after a judicial commission in Pakistan ordered copies of smartphone communications in the memo probe. The Canadian firm reacted to news that a Pakistani commission was seeking records for a probe into an unsigned memo purported to ask for…
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California’s Privacy Class Action Litigation Du Jour: “Shine the Light” Law
Theodore J. Kobus III reminds businesses that trolling lawyers are looking for opportunities to file class-action lawsuits where statutory damages are available without any showing of harm: Privacy class action litigation is hot in California and a new wave of lawsuits are being filed under California’s 2003 “Shine the Light” law, codified in Cal. Civ. Code…
Occupy blogger fighting subpoena – but is Twitter?
Milton J. Valencia reports: The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts is fighting on behalf of a blogger with apparent Occupy Boston ties who has been subjected to a subpoena that authorities filed through a social media site. Peter Krupp, an attorney from Lurie and Krupp LLC, who is working on behalf of the ACLU,…
Meet Telecomix, The Hackers Bent On Exposing Those Who Censor And Surveil The Internet
If you are concerned or outraged about how companies are providing surveillance technology to oppressive governments, you will definitely want to read Andy Greenberg’s article on Forbes. Are those involved in Telecomix breaking any laws? Undoubtedly they are, and they do so at no small risk to themselves. But I think they deserve our profound…