Chris Cekot reports: State prosecutors have withdrawn a subpoena ordering the social networking service Twitter to reveal the names of two bloggers critical of Attorney General Tom Corbett and his investigation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 The subpoena, which threatened Twitter’s custodian of records with arrest for noncompliance, was withdrawn after former House…
Category: Featured News
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…
Comparing Ease of Deleting Accounts
Michael Zimmer writes about some comparison research he performed: Given the recent focus on increasing numbers of users deleting their Facebook accounts due to the recent privacy disaster, and some of the past barriers that made it hard to accomplish at all, I decided to perform a comparison of the relative ease/difficulty of deleting one’s…
Facebook, MySpace Confront Privacy Loophole (updated)
Emily Steel and Jessica E. Vascellaro report: Facebook, MySpace and several other social-networking sites have been sending data to advertising companies that could be used to find consumers’ names and other personal details, despite promises they don’t share such information without consent. The practice, which most of the companies defended, sent user names or ID…