David Kravets reports: The two American lawyers who were illegally wiretapped by the Bush administration asked a federal judge Friday to order the government to pay $612,000 in damages, plus legal fees for their attorneys. The demand (.pdf) comes two weeks after U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker said the former administration wiretapped the lawyers’ telephone…
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Ireland Is Latest With Plan to Cut Into Copyright Violations
Eric Pfanner reports: A judge in Ireland on Thursday cleared the way for the implementation of a crackdown on Internet piracy, dismissing the Irish Data Protection Commissioner’s concerns that the plan could result in the invasion of privacy. The judge upheld the legality of an agreement between Eircom, the largest Internet service provider in Ireland,…
NYC appeals court hears challenge to wiretap law
Larry Neumeister reports: A civil rights lawyer asked a federal appeals court Friday to restore a lawsuit challenging a law that lets the United States eavesdrop on overseas conversations. A government lawyer disagreed, saying a lower court got it right. The verbal tug-of-war proceeded before a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of…
Spam Suspect Uses Google Docs, FBI Happy
Kevin Poulsen reports: FBI agents targeting alleged criminal spammers last year obtained a trove of incriminating documents from a suspect’s Google Docs account, in what appears to be the first publicly acknowledged search warrant benefiting from a suspect’s reliance on cloud computing. The warrant, issued August 21 in the Western District of New York, targeted…