EFF issued the following press release: A federal judge in San Francisco has quashed a baseless subpoena aimed at outing an anonymous online critic of Pennsylvania corporation USA Technologies after the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) successfully argued that the First Amendment shields the identity of anonymous speakers who engage in lawful speech. “All too frequently,…
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Class action lawsuit over Google wi-fi data collection filed
Karina Brown reports on what is likely to be only one of many lawsuits filed over Google’s revelation that it inadvertently collected personal information during its Street View operations: In Portland, lead plaintiff Vicki Van Valin claims Google operates vehicles mounted with “wireless sniffers” that decode Wi-Fi data. She claims Google captured and decoded her…
Cryonics Firm Wins Battle to Freeze Dead Man’s Head
Suppose you want your head to be cryonically suspended after your death and you make arrangements for same. And suppose your children don’t agree, and bury you — with your head. And suppose that because of your family’s actions, the firm you wanted to suspend your head was unable to get it in a timely…
Civil liberties groups file suit against Arizona’s new immigration law
Jamie Ross of Courthouse News reports on the anticipated challenge to Arizona’s new “papers, please” law: Arizona’s controversial immigration law “will cause widespread racial profiling and will subject many persons of color … to unlawful interrogations, searches, seizures and arrests,” according to a federal class action filed by the ACLU, the NAACP and other national…