William A. Celey became the latest State Department employee to plead guilty to illegally accessing passport files. Celey had been charged with unauthorized computer access and will be sentenced in October. As reported on Examiner.com: In pleading guilty, Celey admitted that between June 22, 2004, and July 15, 2004, he logged onto the PIERS database…
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Power.com gets in Facebook’s face
Power.com is fighting back against Facebook’s lawsuit (pdf). Today, Power.com filed a response and countersuit (pdf). In the filing, Power.com claims that some of the actions attributed to Power.com by Facebook, such as sending out emails to contacts, actually were the doing of Facebook itself and that it was Facebook itself which inserts the Facebook…
Al-Haramain case back in court
“Warrantless surveillance of American citizens, in defiance of FISA, is unlawful and unconstitutional.” President Barack Obama, December 20, 2007 “We owe the American people a reckoning.” Attorney General Eric Holder, June 13, 2008 And thus began the latest round in Al-Haramain v. Obama, a case seeking a ruling that the Terrorist Surveillance Program implemented during…
Privacy concerns about Japanese rape trial
Because Aomori, Japan has a new lay judge system that involves randomly selecting lay judges as well as professional judges for cases, an upcoming rape trial has a women’s group concerned about privacy. According to The Japan Times, Women’s Net Aomori, has petitioned the Aomori District Court to ensure that the victim’s privacy is protected….