Swedish telecom firm TeliaSonera has announced its intention to appeal to the Supreme Court (Högsta Domstolen) an anti-piracy law ruling ordering the firm to hand over the names and addresses of people behind a file sharing website. […] The Appeals Court (Hovrätten) on Monday upheld a lower court’s ruling forcing TeliaSonera to hand over to…
Category: Court
NASA hacker McKinnon’s extradition halted for review
David Meyer reports: New home secretary Theresa May has paused Gary McKinnon’s extradition proceedings so she can fully consider the issues in his case. May has applied for a judicial review hearing, scheduled for Tuesday next week, to be adjourned, the Home Office said on Thursday. The hearing had been arranged to consider whether May’s…
Request for Amazon User Records Unconstitutional, Says ACLU
The ACLU has issued a press release: The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of North Carolina today sent a letter to North Carolina Secretary of Revenue Kenneth Lay reiterating concern over a recent request by the state Department of Revenue (NCDOR) for the private records of Amazon.com customers [previous coverage on PogoWasRight.org here…
UK’s secret surveillance regime does not breach human rights, rules ECHR
The European Court of Human Rights has rejected a claim that the UK’s Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) violates the human right to a private life. The UK’s rules and safeguards on covert surveillance are proportionate, said the court. The case concerned Malcolm Kennedy, a London businessman who was arrested for drunkenness in December…