Nick DiVito reports: The American Civil Liberties Union sued the federal government on Thursday for the release of documents relating to what it calls an unconstitutional spying law that gives the executive branch power to collect Americans’ international e-mails and phone records without a warrant or suspicion of wrongdoing. The lawsuit, which challenges the FISA…
Category: Court
Facebook Sued Again For Privacy Violations
Feel like you need a scorecard to keep the lawsuits straight? You’re not alone. Wendy Davis reports: Facebook has been hit with a second potential class-action lawsuit alleging that the company violated users’ privacy by providing marketers with the names of users who clicked on ads. This lawsuit, filed late last week on behalf of…
EFF Asks Judges to Quash Subpoenas in Movie-Downloading Lawsuits
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked judges in Washington, D.C., Wednesday to quash subpoenas issued in predatory lawsuits aimed at movie downloaders, arguing in friend-of-the court briefs that the cases, which together target several thousand BitTorrent users, flout legal safeguards for protecting individuals’ rights. Public Citizen and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Foundation joined…
Spyware Seller Settles FTC Charges; Order Bars Marketing of Keylogger Software for Illegal Uses
The Federal Trade Commission has put the brakes on the business practices of an operation that was selling spyware and showing customers how to remotely install it on other people’s computers without their knowledge or consent. The FTC is announcing a settlement that bars the sellers of the “RemoteSpy” keylogger from advertising that the spyware…