Jeremy Kirk reports: Delta Air Lines is being sued for allegedly hacking the e-mail account of a passenger rights advocate supporting legislation that would allow access to food, water and toilets during long delays on the tarmac. Kathleen Hanni, executive director of Flyersrights.org, alleges Delta obtained sensitive e-mails and files and used the material in…
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Federal court denies govt attempt to delay release of telecom records. Again.
Kurt Opsahl of EFF writes: Today a federal district court denied the government’s latest emergency motion asking for a 30-day stay in last Friday’s deadline to release records relating to telecom lobbying over last year’s debate over immunity for corporate participation in government spying. The new deadline is October 16, at 4 p.m. Pacific time….
Judge dismisses case against ISPs that worked with closed NebuAd
Wendy Davis reports: A federal judge has dismissed a privacy lawsuit against six Internet service providers who worked with defunct behavioral targeting company NebuAd. U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson in the northern district of California ruled that it would be unfair to force the ISPs — Bresnan, CenturyTel, Embarq, Knology, WOW, and Cable One…
Canada: New decision on warrantless access to ISP customer data
David Fraser writes: A friend just provided me with a copy of a recent decision of the Ontario Court of Justice considering the admissibility of information obtained without a warrant from the suspect’s internet service provider, Bell. R. v. Cuttell is not on CanLii yet, but I’ve put a copy here. The Court concluded there…