Maria Dinzeo reports: A federal judge ruled has ruled that government spying on a charity called Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation violated federal laws on domestic surveillance. The government admittedly relied on the surveillance of phone conversations between two of the non-profit’s lawyers and an Al-Haramain director in Saudi Arabia when it designated the group as a…
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Communicating With Those Who Have No Privacy Rights: The Hard Question in City of Ontario v. Quon
Orin Kerr writes: On Monday, April 19, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in this Term’s only significant Fourth Amendment case, City of Ontario v. Quon. Quon considers whether a city violated the Fourth Amendment by obtaining copies of stored text messages sent over a city-provided text pager used by a city employee. In…
Facebook Revealed Private Email Addresses Last Night (update 1)
A brief rift in the Facebook privacy shield has been healed, but not before dozens of people documented it. For about 30 minutes late Tuesday, private email addresses were revealed—and then, just as suddenly, they were hidden again. Read more on Gawker.com. Nothing on the Facebook blog as of the time of this posting to…
Advocacy Groups, Companies Call for an Update of the Privacy Framework for Law Enforcement Access to Digital Information
From the announcement of a new coalition to promote a new framework and revision to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act: A broad coalition of privacy groups, think tanks, technology companies and academics today issued principles for updating the key federal law that defines the rules for government access to email and private files stored in…