Kurt Opsahl of the Electronic Frontier Foundation writes: LIGATT Security, a controversial Georgia-based computer security firm, is embroiled in an ongoing flame war with its online detractors, who question the firm’s legitimacy and stock prospects. Earlier this month, LIGATT upped the ante by filing suit in a Georgia court, threatening about 25 anonymous commenters on…
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Mexico’s New Data Protection Law
W. Scott Blackmer writes: Mexico has joined the ranks of more than 50 countries that have enacted omnibus data privacy laws covering the private sector. The new Federal Law on the Protection of Personal Data Held by Private Parties (Ley federal de protección de datos personales en posesión de los particulares) (the “Law”) was published…
Judge grants injunction against Ariz. immigration law
Susan Carroll reports: A federal judge today issued an injunction barring Arizona from enforcing key provisions of its controversial immigration law, prompting promises to appeal from supporters and tears of joy from opponents outside the state capitol. The parts of the law that Judge Susan Bolton put a hold on included sections that required officers…
100 million Facebook pages leaked on torrent site
The 2.8GB torrent was compiled by hacker Ron Bowes of Skull Security, who created a web crawler program that harvested data on users contained in Facebook’s open access directory, which lists all users who haven’t bothered to change their privacy settings to make their pages unavailable to search engines. Bowes’ directory contains 171 million entries,…