Porter Wells reports: Ancestry.com Inc. convinced a federal judge on Monday to dismiss a lawsuit by California residents who claimed the genealogy-based company’s inclusion of their photos in its Yearbook database violated their privacy rights. The California residents didn’t allege an injury in fact to support their proposed class action because the photographs came from…
Category: Election2016
Did Trump’s Voting Commission Break Privacy Laws? We’ll Find Out Soon
Cogan Schneier reports: A federal judge may decide by Friday whether to block President Donald Trump’s newly created voting commission from asking states to hand over voters’ personal data. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly is expected to make a decision by the end of week in the lawsuit, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court…
The morning after….
“We have met the enemy and he is us.” – Pogo Possum, 1971. Pogo was right. Yesterday, despite pleas and warnings from non-Americans to “don’t fuck this up,” America did. How we did that, and why we did that will be fodder for a million articles and historians for decades to come. But this morning, many…
Vote.
After an interminably long campaign that gave us two awful choices by our two major political parties, and after “debates” that never seemed to address privacy issue, it’s time for you to vote. I cannot, in good conscience, tell you to vote based on privacy issues. But if you care about civil liberties and human rights, then…