From EPIC.org: Privacy Advocate Betty Ostergren has won in federal appeals court in her challenge to a state law designed to prosecute her for drawing attention to the state’s online publication of SSNs. In Ostergren v. Cuccinelli, the court ruled that the Commonwealth of Virginia may not prosecute Ostergren for publishing the SSNs of state…
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Schools risk theft of SS numbers of children
Matthew Cella reports: Schools are putting children at risk of identity fraud by obtaining their Social Security numbers when it is not required by law and often unnecessary, the Social Security Administration’s Office of Inspector General has concluded. Some school systems in at least 26 states collect the nine-digit identifiers when students from kindergarten through…
Britons to be spied on by foreign police
Tom Whitehead and Andrew Porter report: Britons face being spied on and pursued by foreign police officers even for the most minor offences in an European agreement the Home Office will sign up to tomorrow. The power allows prosecutors from any EU country to demand details such as DNA or even bank and phone records…
Ways to snoop ‘private’ web sessions identified
Gareth Morgan reports: Furtive web surfers might not be able to rely on their web browser’s private mode to hide their tracks. Most web browsers offer a private mode, intended to leave no trace of surfing history on the computer. But Collin Jackson at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and colleagues, have found ways…