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…
Category: Court
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…
Russian TV channels’ financial demands to Google reach ₽2 undecillion
RBC reports that a Russian court has fined Google …. a helluva lot of money (2 undecillion rubles, which converts to US$20.5 decillion). But do the plaintiffs have any chance of actually collecting it? The total amount of claims from 17 Russian TV channels to Google has reached 2 undecillion rubles, a source familiar with…