Lyle Denniston reports: A gay rights group, renewing its challenge to the military’s “don’t ask/don’t tell” policy against gays in the services, asked the Supreme Court on Friday afternoon to block that ban as the test case over its constitutionality moves on in lower federal courts. Specifically, the Log Cabin Republicans urged the Court to…
Category: Court
UK: JIH v News Group – Removing Anonymity in Privacy Cases
Inforrm’s Blog has more about a case previously noted on this site. Mark Thomson writes: On 5 November 2010 Mr Justice Tugendhat handed down judgment in JIH v News Group Newspapers ([2010] EWHC 2818 (QB)) another privacy injunction case about anonymity. Following his recent decision in Gray v UVW ([2010] EWHC 2367 (QB)), he again decided that,…
Google’s Privacy Practices Clouded By Lawsuit
Charles Babcock writes: Google sees itself as a disruptive force, first in reorganizing the world’s information and second at delivering email and other services from the cloud. Its pride as a disrupter is getting in the way of convincing state and federal governments to accept its cloud services. Previously, Google complained to the press that…
Brussels blocks UK from biometric superdatabase
Chris Williams reports: European judges have rejected an attempt by British security officials to gain access to a huge new store of visa application data being set up to combat illegal immigration, organised crime and terrorism. The government went to court to force the EU to allow agencies such as MI5, SOCA and the UK…