Associated Press reports on another cyberbullying or harassment case. This case really needs to be read by parents and discussed with their children. It also needs to be discussed in the schools as an opportunity to reinforce the importance of privacy – respect for one’s own and respect for others’. A cyberbully who forwarded explicit…
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DHS: Political appointees were checking grammar of FOIA requests? I don’t think so.
Okay, now here’s a Congressional oversight review I can really get behind. Alan Fram of the Associated Press reports: A House committee has asked the Homeland Security Department to provide documents about an agency policy that required political appointees to review many Freedom of Information Act requests, according to a letter obtained Jan. 16 by…
ECHR upholds Campbell v MGN
Thanks to Inforrm’s Blog, I just found out about RPC Privacy Blog, a new privacy blog by the UK law firm of Reynolds Porter Chamberlain. What better way to introduce readers to them than by providing an excerpt from their coverage of today’s European Court of Human Rights decision in MGN v. United Kingdom, a…
ThankTwitter: Harnessing the Power of Social Media to Promote Good Corporate Stewardship of Privacy
There’s a new page on this web site: the ThankTwitter page. The #ThankTwitter campaign is a grassroots, crowd-sourced effort to publicly acknowledge Twitter’s defense of its users’ privacy when served with a sealed court order to turn over some users’ information without even notifying the users. Instead of complying, Twitter filed a motion to unseal…