Jim McElhatton reports: The U.S. Postal Service has quietly sought to “immunize” itself from Privacy Act challenges to its address-correction service, a program that gives credit, marketing and data-service providers access to updated name and address information for tens of millions of Americans. Postal officials say the program helps reduce costly undeliverable mail that can…
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Appeals Court Revives EFF’s Challenge to Government’s Massive Spying Program
Woo hoo! From EFF: The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today blocked the government’s attempt to bury the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF’s) lawsuit against the government’s illegal mass surveillance program, returning Jewel v. NSA to the District Court for the next step. The court found that Jewel had alleged sufficient specifics about the warrantless…
Occupy blogger fighting subpoena – but is Twitter?
Milton J. Valencia reports: The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts is fighting on behalf of a blogger with apparent Occupy Boston ties who has been subjected to a subpoena that authorities filed through a social media site. Peter Krupp, an attorney from Lurie and Krupp LLC, who is working on behalf of the ACLU,…
Data-Crazy Department of Education Throws Privacy Out the Window
Ann Kane is singing my tune: Data is king in the progressives’ world. The more they have on you, the more they can control you. A New York Post article brings to light the slippery slope of the State’s intrusion into the private lives of students and their families. Obama’s Department of Education has rewritten the rules…