European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Peter Hustinx, who oversees the data protection practices of EU bodies and advises them on privacy policy, has said that those proposals that had been made public were worrying. He also condemned the fact that so little information about negotiations has been publicised. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a…
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Chief Judge Alex Kozinski writes scathing dissent in Fourth Amendment case
When a judge called for United States v. Lemus to be reheard en banc, the majority of judges in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals did not vote to rehear the case. Chief Judge Alex Kozinski wrote an absolutely blistering dissent to that denial. With Judge Paez joining in the dissent, he wrote: This is…
SF Court: Use File Sharing Programs, Kiss Your Privacy Goodbye
Computer users who sign up for peer-to-peer file-sharing programs don’t have a privacy right to be shielded from FBI probes, according to a federal appeals court ruling in San Francisco today. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the child pornography possession conviction of a Nevada man who was prosecuted after an FBI agent…
How closely does the government watch the files on your web site?
Does the government need any warrant or additional legal authority to view or collect information from publicly available web sites? A recent DHS memo received some guffaws on mail lists where people wondered why DHS would need to issue detailed privacy impact memos or justification that it was reading sites that are publicly available to…