This has been a busy month for John Young of Cryptome.org. Not only did he post a slew of not-for-public-distribution compliance guides for law enforcement seeking subscriber or customer data, but he also posted an unredacted version of a Transportation Security Administration manual that had been inadequately redacted. To top things off, Cryptome published some…
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Supreme Court may decide whether workers’ text messages are private
Workplace privacy issues seem to be back in the legal news this week. David. G. Savage of the Baltimore Sun reports on a case before the U.S. Supreme Court you may want to know about if you send text messages on employer-provided devices: Workplace rights advocates are closely following a California case now before the…
Tiger Woods’s UK court injunction ignored by non-UK media
I’ve blogged a few times about how non-U.S. injunctions are ignored in the U.S. Here’s another example: although U.K. High Court Justice David Eady issued an injunction barring unnamed parties X and Y in the U.K. from publishing nude photos of Tiger Woods — and from even revealing any information on the order itself —…
WideOpen West spyware funnelled data to NebuAd – lawsuit
Maria Dinzeo reports: Internet service provider WideOpen West installed spyware on its broadband networks that “funneled all users’ Internet communications – inbound and outbound, in their entirety – to a third-party Internet advertisement-serving company, NebuAd,” a class action claims in Chicago Federal Court. “NebuAd and WOW used the intercepted communications to monitor and profile individual…