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…
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Slovak manager to sue Deutsche Telekom over spying
A Slovak Telekom employee who was one of the targets of Deutsche Telekom snooping activities in Eastern Europe plans to sue the Germany’s telecoms giant for breach of privacy, his lawyer said Monday. Slovak Telekom security chief Frantisek Gaulieder, a former lawmaker, was among the people spied on by Deutsche Telekom AG, the Sme daily…
Hanover activist going to court in privacy vs. free speech case
Frank Green reports that Betty “BJ” Ostergren of the Virginia Watchdog will be back in court tomorrow: A privacy advocate will be in court tomorrow defending a ruling last year that enables her to publish records with the Social Security numbers of state officials on her Web site. In June, a federal judge ordered Virginia…
Anonymous sender of beer pong email gets to remain unknown
Evan Brown reports on a case in New Jersey where the standards for unmasking an anonymous party articulated in Dendrite v. Doe were applied to a case involving a teenage girl who tried to unmask an anonymous party who sent pictures of her playing beer pong to her school administrators. In A.Z. v. Doe, the…