Nicholas Iovino reports: Police used records of a journalist’s private communications with a confidential source, obtained by a now-quashed search warrant, to secure permission to raid the reporter’s home and office, two judges revealed in court Friday. Records of phone calls between freelance journalist Bryan Carmody and an unnamed San Francisco police officer served as…
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Reddit User “Darkspilver” Continues Fight for Anonymity Against Jehovah’s Witnesses Organization
Alaina Lancaster reports: A Reddit user’s fight to remain anonymous will continue at a hearing in San Francisco federal court Thursday in a case that lawyers for the Jehovah’s Witnesses say presents a straightforward copyright infringement issue and a civil liberties group calls a sweeping attack on online free speech. Watch Tower Bible and Tract…
The House has OK’d a unique patient identifier. Here’s what should happen next
Shaun Grannis, John D. Halamka, and Ben Moscovitch have an opinion piece on STAT that begins: It isn’t every day that the House of Representatives takes bipartisan action to reverse a policy that’s been in place for two decades. But that’s what happened last month, when Democrats and Republicans alike voted for a measure designed…
Liberty loses high court challenge to snooper’s charter
Frances Perraudin reports: The civil rights group Liberty has lost its latest high court challenge against surveillance laws, saying the ruling allowed the government “to spy on every one of us”. In its challenge to parts of the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) 2016 – which critics have described as the “snooper’s charter” – the organisation…