Google is bowing to the demands of three European governments and says it will begin surrendering the data it improperly collected over unsecured wireless networks. Eric E. Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, told The Financial Times in an interview in London that within the next two days, the company would share the data with regulators in…
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ACLU Sues to See Spying Records
Nick DiVito reports: The American Civil Liberties Union sued the federal government on Thursday for the release of documents relating to what it calls an unconstitutional spying law that gives the executive branch power to collect Americans’ international e-mails and phone records without a warrant or suspicion of wrongdoing. The lawsuit, which challenges the FISA…
EFF Asks Judges to Quash Subpoenas in Movie-Downloading Lawsuits
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked judges in Washington, D.C., Wednesday to quash subpoenas issued in predatory lawsuits aimed at movie downloaders, arguing in friend-of-the court briefs that the cases, which together target several thousand BitTorrent users, flout legal safeguards for protecting individuals’ rights. Public Citizen and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Foundation joined…
Spyware Seller Settles FTC Charges; Order Bars Marketing of Keylogger Software for Illegal Uses
The Federal Trade Commission has put the brakes on the business practices of an operation that was selling spyware and showing customers how to remotely install it on other people’s computers without their knowledge or consent. The FTC is announcing a settlement that bars the sellers of the “RemoteSpy” keylogger from advertising that the spyware…