Salvador Rizzo reports: A former medical worker who was convicted of illegally accessing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s hospital records as she underwent cancer treatment in 2019 was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison after a judge excoriated his “truly despicable conduct” and “stunning lack of empathy.” Trent J. Russell admitted he was active on 4chan, an…
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The 2024 U.S. Election is Over. EFF is Ready for What’s Next.
When I woke up yesterday morning, I found myself humming, “There’s got to be a morning after if we can hold on through the night,” the theme from the Poseidon Adventure. I was not feeling particularly optimistic, and I made a point of not watching the news yesterda so I could avoid all the finger-pointing…
EFF Lawsuit Discloses Documents Detailing Government’s Social Media Surveillance of Immigrants
Aaron Mackey of EFF writes: Despite rebranding a federal program that surveils the social media activities of immigrants and foreign visitors to a more benign name, the government agreed to spend more than $100 million to continue monitoring people’s online activities, records disclosed to EFF show. Thousands of pages of government procurement records and related…
2d Circuit Holds We “May” Have An Expectation Of Privacy In Google Emails
Over on Simple Justice, Scott Greenfield writes: Remember reading Google’s terms of service? Neither does anyone else, because nobody does. We all click on the “yes” link that we’ve read and agreed to it because otherwise we can’t do whatever it is we were trying do when the TOS link popped up, and it’s not…