Lawsuit Seeks Information on Three Controversial Surveillance Provisions in Advance of Congressional Debate The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit today against the Department of Justice (DOJ), demanding records on three controversial PATRIOT Act surveillance provisions that expire early next year unless Congress renews them. EFF is seeking the immediate release of Federal Bureau of…
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Google Urged to Bring Street View in Line With EU Law (Update1)
Google Inc.’s Street View mapping service may break EU laws unless it improves the blurring technique it uses to disguise images. Officials from 30 European countries today adopted a common approach that may force Google, the owner of the most popular Internet search engine, to take further steps to avoid infringing privacy rights. The measure…
Lawsuit Wants SEC to ID Porn Snoopers
Jim McElhatton reports: The Securities and Exchange Commission is facing a federal lawsuit for keeping secret the names of dozens of its supervisors, employees and contractors who spent their workdays looking at pornography on their government computers. The lawsuit, filed Friday by a Denver- and Washington-based law firm, accuses the SEC of violating federal open-records…
U.S. Supreme Court: Justices might like national ID card
Michael Kirkland of UPI reports: Americans are facing the prospect, some say the specter, of a national ID card. At least one civil liberties advocate warns the proposed card would bring government “into the very center of our lives.” The card — part of a much larger Democratic proposal in Congress for immigration reform revealed…