Jordan Robertson reports: A Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place: strangers’ accounts with full access to troves of private information. The glitch – the result of a routing problem at the family’s wireless carrier, AT&T – revealed a little known…
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Court to Rule on Right to Privacy for Referendum Petition Signers
Adam Liptak reports: The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether the First Amendment requires that the names of people who sign ballot-initiative petitions be kept secret. As in the court’s decision on Wednesday to block the broadcasting of the trial of a challenge to a ban on same-sex marriage in California, the appeal…
Lawyers advise wait to lift “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” ban
Anne Gearan and and Philip Elliott of The Associated Press reports: Lawyers for the nation’s top military officer are recommending holding off on an internal Pentagon effort that could lead to the repeal of the ban on openly gay military service. The delay could push a decision by Congress to the middle of the next…
9th Circuit Sympathetic to Privacy Act Suit Over Release of Pilot’s HIV Status
Mike McKee reports: Stanmore Cooper admits he shouldn’t have concealed his HIV status when filling out a medical form for pilots, but he was horrified when that information was freely shared among several federal agencies. A sympathetic-sounding 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals seemed ready Wednesday to let the San Francisco man proceed with a…