Karina Brown reports: A woman who lived at the meeting place for the al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, which the Bush administration accused of association with Osama bin Laden, says the Department of Justice endangered her and her family by giving copies of her computer hard drives to Russian spies with known ties to the Iranian government….
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U.S. Supreme Court: No right to privacy for signing petitions
Tom Goldstein of SCOTUSblog reports on the Supreme Court’s decision in the case of those who wanted to keep their signatures on a petition shielded from public scrutiny: By a broad eight-to-one majority in an opinion by the Chief Justice, the Supreme Court today held in Doe v. Reed that signatories of referendum petitions generally…
Twitter Settles Charges that it Failed to Protect Consumers’ Personal Information
Social networking service Twitter has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers and put their privacy at risk by failing to safeguard their personal information, marking the 30th case the FTC has brought targeting faulty data security, and the agency’s first such case against a social networking service. The FTC’s complaint…
Illinois court rejects Dendrite standard
It seems like just yesterday I was noting some progress in the courts in protecting online anonymous speech. Then today I came across this article by Douglas Lee about how the Illinois Court of Appeals rejected the Dendrite and Cahill standards in a case where anonymous online posters accused individuals of bribing public officials: It’s…