Phil Willon reports: A federal judge in Riverside declared the U.S. military’s ban on openly gay service members unconstitutional Thursday, saying the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy violates the 1st Amendment rights of lesbians and gay men. U.S. District Court Judge Virginia A. Phillips said the policy banning gays did not preserve military readiness, contrary…
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Class Claims Fox Hacks Into Computers
Karina Brown reports: A class action claims Fox Entertainment Group hacked into millions of computers to install “rogue, cookie-like tracking code” to snoop on people who visit Fox’s “American Idol” website. The class claims Fox and Clearspring Technologies committed crimes, circumvented privacy settings, and that the rogue devices reinstall themselves even if their victims can…
Swiss supreme court orders Logistep to stop snooping on file-sharers (update 2)
The Associated Press reports that the Swiss Federal Tribunal has ordered Logistep AG to stop snooping on individuals its clients believe are engaged in illegal file-sharing. The court reportedly held that such snooping violated the individuals’ right to privacy. Swiss data protection laws also cover IP addresses. I’m not seeing any other coverage of this…
Now about that “bright line”….
Last night, I posted a blog entry about why I think we need a bright line on government requests for cell phone location data. In that entry, I expressed my mixed reaction to a Third Circuit appellate decision that said that judges have the discretion to require a warrant. Consistent with my perspective that there…