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…
Category: Court
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…
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…