More on the recent court opinion involving the lawsuit over AOL’s 1006 release of search query data that wasn’t as anonymous as they thought. Maria Dinzeo reports: A federal judge found AOL accountable for disclosing personal information of 658,000 of its customers. U.S. District Judge Sandra Armstrong ruled that AOL’s accidental posting of its customers’…
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Wis. Supreme Court rules on e-mail privacy (updated)
The Associated Press reports: Wisconsin government employees can safely send personal e-mail messages on their work computers without worrying that they will have to make them public, under a ruling Friday by the state Supreme Court. The court ruled that just because a public employee uses a work computer to send an e-mail, it doesn’t…
Utah database breached for suspected political motives
For those readers who do not also read DataBreaches.net, there’s a situation in Utah that is worthy of note here. Yesterday, a list of 1300 allegedly illegal aliens was leaked to media outlets and others. By tonight, the state had determined that the list came from a database maintained by the state’s Department of Workforce…
EFF Urges Court to Block Dragnet Subpoenas Targeting Online Commenters
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) this week served a motion to quash dragnet subpoenas that put privacy and anonymity at risk for the operators of dozens of Internet blogs and potentially hundreds of commenters. The subpoenas stem from a state lawsuit filed by New York residents Miriam and Michael Hersh alleging a conspiracy to interfere…