Ken Dilanian of the L.A. Times reports on EPIC’s lawsuit to obtain documents relating to the relationship between the NSA and Google, as reported earlier today on this blog. “As of 2009, Gmail had roughly 146 million monthly users, all of whom would be affected by any relationship between the NSA and Google,” the privacy…
Category: Court
Company Hit With $459 Million Judgment Over ‘Junk Fax’ Transmissions
Greg Land reports: A now-defunct home improvement company has been hit with a $459 million “junk fax” judgment following a four-hour bench trial, said plaintiffs attorney Marc B. Hershovitz. The case, originally filed in 2003, targeted American Home Services Inc. for sending unsolicited fax advertisements to 306,000 class members in violation of the Telephone Consumer…
Freiwald on Much-Anticipated Cell Location Privacy Decision
I’ve been waiting to hear Professor Freiwald’s reaction to the recent Third Circuit decision . Here we go… Danielle Citron writes: Professor Susan Freiwald generously agreed to blog about the recent Third Circuit decision regarding the privacy protections afforded cell phone location data. Here is Professor Freiwald’s commentary on the case: The Third Circuit…
EPIC Files Suit For Documents Regarding Google/NSA Partnership
From EPIC.org: Today, EPIC filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the National Security Agency in the United States District Court in the District of Columbia. The agency failed to respond to EPIC’s FOIA request for documents about an “Information Assurance” partnership with Google. EPIC previously appealed to the agency to comply with its legal duty to produce…