News24 reports: Electronic privacy advocates on Thursday weighed in on a high-stakes legal fight over online communications, arguing that a subpoena seeking an Occupy Wall Street protester’s tweets violates his rights to free speech and privacy. The filing from the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Citizen, Inc supports Twitter’s position…
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Facebook Forced By Privacy Activist To Put Policy Changes Up For Worldwide Vote
Josh Constine reports: Max Schrems, the Austrian founder of Europe Vs. Facebook, has forced Facebook to put proposed policy changes up for a vote by all its users. By mobilizing his privacy group to flood Facebook’s Site Governance page with pasted messages, many more than 7,000 comments were received on the proposal — the threshold for triggering a vote. Europe Vs. Facebook…
“Juror One” revisited: Court holds that SCA does not apply
You may not remember his name, but regular readers of this blog will likely remember the case of “Juror Number One,” a juror who made some comments on Facebook during a criminal trial. Not surprisingly, the judge investigated the juror misconduct – or tried to – but hit a snag when it came to actually…
Sonic.net gets highest marks in data-privacy report
Jeff Quackenbush reports: Internet service provider Sonic.net today was recognized by national online-rights watchdog Electronic Frontier Foundation for getting the highest score among 18 national companies for actively protecting the privacy of customers’ data. Sonic.net received four out of four “stars,” for notifying customers when government demands for data are received, telling customers about such…