Kim Arlington reports: In a case which highlights the difficulties of keeping a low profile when you have a Facebook account, a court has ordered that the social networking site be used to serve legal documents on an elusive father in a child support dispute. The federal magistrate who made the order, Stewart Brown, said…
Category: Court
ACLU Sues to See Spying Records
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…
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…