Usually when I read a story about adoptees and privacy, the issue is the adoptees wanting to be able to determine their biological parents. Michael Warren of the Associated Press has an interview with some adoptees in Argentina who do not want to be forced to give DNA if it proves that their adoptive mother,…
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Google to Give Governments Street View Data
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…
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…