Gregg Keizer reports: Google said that it has secured the data it obtained through its Street View Wi-Fi snooping, but will fight a class-action lawsuit’s demand that it turn over more information, court documents showed today. In a pair of filings to an Oregon federal court, Google said that it has copied all the data…
Category: Featured News
Google rolls out encrypted Web search option
Elinor Mills reports: Google began offering an encrypted option for Web searchers on Friday and said it planned to roll it out for all of its services eventually. People who want to use the more secure search option can type “https://www.google.com” into their browser, scrambling the connection so the words and phrases they search on,…
AG Corbett’s Office Withdraws Twitter Subpoena
Chris Cekot reports: State prosecutors have withdrawn a subpoena ordering the social networking service Twitter to reveal the names of two bloggers critical of Attorney General Tom Corbett and his investigation into public corruption in the state Legislature. The subpoena, which threatened Twitter’s custodian of records with arrest for noncompliance, was withdrawn after former House…
Justice Stevens and the so-called right to privacy
Erin Miller writes: The following essay by Jamal Greene is part of our thirty-day series on John Paul Stevens. Greene clerked for Justice Stevens during the 2006 Term, and is now a law professor at Columbia University. In the months leading up to his confirmation hearing, news emerged that in 1981, as a fledgling lawyer…