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…
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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…
Twitter confirms awkward ‘auto-follow’ bug
Carolyn McCarthy reports: It’s been a Monday of social-media security embarrassments: Twitter has confirmed the existence of a bug that can force one user to follow another. The bug appears to have originally been noticed by a Turkish blog, followed by the blog Webrazzi, which successfully tested it out and forced the Twitter accounts of…
Watchdog Web site is news organization – court (updated)
The Associated Press had a story earlier this week that I just came across on a court decision out of New Hampshire. In a nutshell, the case involved a watchdog site, Implode-Explode Heavy Industries, Inc. (Implode), that uploaded a confidential document about a mortgage company, Mortgage Specialists, Inc., and an anonymous comment made on the…