Bill Rosenberger reports: The daughter of state Treasurer John Perdue has sued the Marshall University Board of Governors and her former professor, Laura Wyant, charging that her name and some information about her grades were made public. The civil complaint, filed Friday in the Circuit Court of Cabell County, states on or about Sept. 25,…
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EFF Urges Court to Block Dragnet Subpoenas Targeting Online Commenters
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) this week served a motion to quash dragnet subpoenas that put privacy and anonymity at risk for the operators of dozens of Internet blogs and potentially hundreds of commenters. The subpoenas stem from a state lawsuit filed by New York residents Miriam and Michael Hersh alleging a conspiracy to interfere…
Ninth Circuit orders anonymous internet speakers be identified
Evan Brown provides a summary of and commentary on a Ninth Circuit opinion issued yesterday concerning outing online anonymous speakers. From the court’s opinion (pdf), the background on the case: The proceeding before us is but a short chapter in an acrimonious and long-running business dispute between Quixtar, Inc. (“Quixtar”), successor to the well-known Amway…
ACLU says California DNA law violates privacy
Bob Egelko reports: Challenging a California law that requires police to collect the DNA of all suspected felons, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer told a federal appeals court Tuesday that the government should not be allowed to take the “genetic blueprint” of someone who hasn’t been convicted of a crime. One-third of the 300,000…