Kevin Rollason reports: A Manitoban is suing Google for unspecified damages in a class-action suit over alleged problems with the launch of Google’s Buzz program earlier this year. It took information from user email and integrated it with social networking accounts like Facebook. Lawyer Norman Rosenbaum is acting for Tyler Wereha, of Rosa, Manitoba. Rosenbaum…
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DHS Files Brief in EPIC Airport Body Scanner Case
From EPIC.org: The Department of Homeland Security has filed its answer brief in EPIC’s suit to suspend the agency’s controversial airport body scanner program. EPIC filed its opening brief on November 1, 2010, arguing that the body scanners are “unlawful, invasive, and ineffective.” Since then, a national grassroots movement of citizens, advocates, and lawmakers staged protests, sent letters, held hearings…
Eleventh Circuit Holds That It is a Federal Crime For an Employee To Use His Employer’s Computer For “Non Business Reasons” After Receiving Clear Instruction From Employer Not to Do So
Last week I reported on an Eleventh Circuit decision concerning a former employee of the Social Security Administration who exceeded authorized access to the database to find out personal information on people he knew or was interested in romantically. I also referred to that case in a blog post reminding us that privacy breaches cause…
Florida Newspaper Demands Private-Public Records
If a city uses a private company to issue traffic tickets to red light violators, are the ticket records of the ticket-issuing contractor public records by extension or are they the private records of the private entity? And if they are public records, can they be disclosed without violating the federal Drivers Privacy Protection Act?…