Arientha Primanita reports: The Constitutional Court on Thursday struck down a contentious decree governing the use of wiretaps, calling it a violation of human rights and making it more difficult for law enforcers to carry out such surveillance. At issue in the review of the regulation that enforces an article of the 2008 Law on…
Category: Court
Consumer lawsuits challenge online data brokers
Two lawsuits in federal court in California that challenge the way a popular online data-mining company does business could give consumers more privacy protection from firms that sell personal information on the Web. In the most recent complaint, filed last week in the Central District of California, plaintiff Thomas Robins alleged that Spokeo Inc. violated…
Muslims Say FBI Snitch Dealt Drugs, Fomented Violence & Snooped on Sex
Bridget Freeland reports: In a federal class action, Muslims claim the FBI hired an “agent provocateur” to infiltrate mosques and “indiscriminately collect personal information on hundreds and perhaps thousands of innocent Muslim Americans in Southern California.” The class claims the agents had their snitch provide illegal drugs to Muslims and snoop on their sex lives,…
Tech Snooper Accused of Privacy Invasion
Bridget Freeland reports: A man sued a technology company for privacy invasion, claiming it intercepted his email exchanges with a friend who was estranged from her husband, after the husband hired it to install the electronic snooping program on the woman’s laptop. The man claims that Awareness Technologies’ privacy invasion was criminal. Alex Watkins sued…