The Washington area man at the center of a national dispute over warrantless GPS surveillance is demanding his release from custody since a federal appeals court voided his life sentence stemming from his alleged role in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy. Lawyers for the man, Antoine Jones, the former co-owner of a nightclub in Washington, argued…
Category: Court
DOJ subpoenas Twitter account info for WikiLeaks supporters (update 1)
With all the negative press social media sites receive about privacy, it’s nice to see one stand up for its users’ privacy. Overnight, Twitter has become something of a hero for fighting a sealed court order to turn over users’ account information to the Department of Justice without notifying its users to give them a…
Woman awaits landmark ruling on sperm-donor identities
Petti Fong reports: For all of her life, Olivia Pratten has known only the barest details about her biological father. Born in 1981 after her mother visited a fertility specialist in Vancouver, she has been told only that her father is Caucasian and was a medical student at the time of donation. Genetically, all she…
FBI: Man who says he hacked Miley Cyrus arrested
I posted another news story about this incident on DataBreaches.net the other day, but the privacy breach aspects make it appropriate for this blog, too. Travis Loller of Associated Press reports: A man who bragged about hacking into Miley Cyrus’ e-mail account and distributing revealing pictures of her has been arrested on unrelated charges, according…