From EFF: Congress voted at the end of February to extend the expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act, but only for three months — giving liberty-loving citizens a new opportunity to continue to protest this dangerous law and demand reforms before the end of May. A message from you, opposing PATRIOT extension and demanding…
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UK businesses must ‘wake up’ to new EU law on cookies, Information Commissioner warns
From the ICO, this press release: Businesses and other organisations running websites in the UK must ‘wake up’ to the fact that EU legislation, which will require them to get consent in order to store or access information on consumers’ computers, is coming into force soon, Information Commissioner Christopher Graham will say today in a…
Homeland Security bows to Real ID outcry
Declan McCullagh reports: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today postponed the effective date of the Real ID Act until January 15, 2013, a move that avoided causing tremendous disruptions to air travel. The reason that Homeland Security granted the delay is that, apart from some Republican stalwarts in Congress, this law creating a digital nationalized…
Nova Scotia CA Favors Transparency Over Youth Privacy in Facebook Defamation Case
Dan Michaluk writes: The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal has just issued a decision in which it affirmed a decision to deny a potential defamation claimant the use of a pseudonym (initials) in pursuing a defamation claim.The appeal was brought by a 15-year-old girl who has taken issue with an individual who created a fake…