James Slack and Michael Seamark report: Stopping the extradition of Gary McKinnon to the U.S. may not be within the Government’s power, Nick Clegg suggested yesterday. The comment – his first intervention in the case since becoming Deputy Prime Minister – surprised supporters of the 44-year-old computer hacker because it was completely at odds with…
Category: Court
Facebook’s ‘Instant Personalization’ Violated Privacy, Class Claims
Alexandria D’Angelo reports: Facebook violated computer privacy law by using data mining “to automatically and without notice capture private information of its members” and post it on unaffiliated websites, a class action claims in Federal Court. The class claims Facebook’s new “Instant Personalization” program violated the Stored Communications Act. Read more on Courthouse News. The…
LCCC’s Misuse of FERPA Unprecedented
Adam Goldstein writes: The prior restraint a Wyoming judge placed on two newspapers was lifted today, which is great; but the institution that abused student privacy law to get the court order hasn’t faced consequences yet. If you need backstory: Laramie County Community College convinced a Wyoming judge to issue a prior restraint preventing two…
Google saves, secures Wi-Fi snooping data
Gregg Keizer reports: Google said that it has secured the data it obtained through its Street View Wi-Fi snooping, but will fight a class-action lawsuit’s demand that it turn over more information, court documents showed today. In a pair of filings to an Oregon federal court, Google said that it has copied all the data…