An indictment [pdf] was returned today against three individuals who are charged with being responsible for five corporate data breaches, including the single largest reported data breach in U.S. history, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Ralph J. Marra, Jr., along with Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer and United States Secret Service…
Category: Court
Cops sues bosses to protect confidential sources
The St. Louis Police Officers’ Association seeks an injunction [pdf] to stop the Police Department from forcing officers to reveal their sources. The union says law enforcement will suffer if officers can’t promise anonymity to informants, but two officers were ordered to identity confidential informants or face discipline and possible termination. The officers’ union claims…
Court orders sheriff to turn over password
We’ve seen a few cases in the past few years where someone was ordered to turn over a password to a computer system or the encryption key. But now a dispute over the security of a law enforcement database has two county agencies in Maricopa Arizona battling in court and a judge threatening the sheriff’s…
Dutch royals in privacy lawsuit against AP
Lawyers for the Dutch crown prince argued in court Friday that The Associated Press violated his privacy by taking photographs of his family on a skiing holiday in Argentina. The AP photographs of Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, his Argentine-born wife Maxima and their 4-year-old daughter Amalia on a slope were published July 30 in several Dutch…