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…
Category: Court
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…
NH: State’s perversion of ‘driver privacy’
The following is an editorial by Joseph W. McQuaid, Publisher of the New Hampshire Union Leader: The people of New Hampshire should know that their state government is using — in our view misusing — something called the “Driver Privacy Act” to prevent them from finding out what their public servants are doing on public…
Rapist claims media breaching right to privacy
A serial rapist who is seeking court orders restraining publication of his address following his release from prison last year has told the High Court he does not want to cause trouble and simply wishes “to continue my rehabilitation, to live my life and hopefully integrate back into society”. He said the newspapers had been…