The Virginia Watchdog case was back in court this week. PogoWasRight.org has been following this case and the efforts of Betty “BJ” Ostergren since 2006. If you’re new to the case, the matter is simple to explain: BJ doesn’t want states putting your Social Security numbers online in their publicly available databases like land records…
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Cops: Notorious Twitter hacker caught, released
Caroline McCarthy reports: Twitter’s equivalent of an elusive masked bandit was caught in France this week, according to an Agence France-Presse story citing police sources, after the FBI began working with authorities there. A 25-year-old who goes by the name “Hacker Croll,” believed to be responsible for two high-profile Twitter hacking incidents in which both…
Images of SeaWorld death remain sealed
Sarah Lundy reports: For now, video and photos that depict the death of a SeaWorld Orlando trainer during an encounter with a killer whale will remain out of the public’s eye. But the media and attorneys for veteran trainer Dawn Brancheau told a judge Wednesday that they were willing to negotiate an agreement regarding access…
Privacy groups urge Supreme Court to protect text message privacy
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the United States Supreme Court today to ensure that modern communications methods such as text messages retain the constitutional privacy protections applied to earlier technologies. In an amicus brief in City of Ontario v. Quon, EFF sided with a public employee who was allowed personal use of his work…