EFF issued the following press release: A federal judge in San Francisco has quashed a baseless subpoena aimed at outing an anonymous online critic of Pennsylvania corporation USA Technologies after the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) successfully argued that the First Amendment shields the identity of anonymous speakers who engage in lawful speech. “All too frequently,…
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Class action lawsuit over Google wi-fi data collection filed
Karina Brown reports on what is likely to be only one of many lawsuits filed over Google’s revelation that it inadvertently collected personal information during its Street View operations: In Portland, lead plaintiff Vicki Van Valin claims Google operates vehicles mounted with “wireless sniffers” that decode Wi-Fi data. She claims Google captured and decoded her…
Privacy expert: It’s good PR to say no to the government
Nancy Gohring reports: A leading privacy researcher is urging companies to say no to government requests for data, arguing that it’s good for business. “Or rather, saying yes can be really bad for business,” said Chris Soghoian, an Indiana University PhD candidate and security and privacy researcher. Speaking on Monday at a Law Seminars International…
Would You Buy a Used Car Identity Theft Protection Service from This Man?
Ray Sterns of Phoenix New Times has really been digging into LifeLock’s assurances that their service will protect you from ID theft. Back in 2007, the paper had exposed that the company’s co-founder, Robert J. Maynard Jr., had a somewhat less than stellar past and the company’s claims that he had been an ID theft…