Andy McSmith reports: Max Mosley, the former president of Formula One, was in a European court yesterday hoping to secure a new law barring newspapers from publishing details of people’s private lives without forewarning. Mr Mosley is asking the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to make it illegal for a newspaper to publish…
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DOJ subpoenas Twitter account info for WikiLeaks supporters (update 1)
With all the negative press social media sites receive about privacy, it’s nice to see one stand up for its users’ privacy. Overnight, Twitter has become something of a hero for fighting a sealed court order to turn over users’ account information to the Department of Justice without notifying its users to give them a…
Woman awaits landmark ruling on sperm-donor identities
Petti Fong reports: For all of her life, Olivia Pratten has known only the barest details about her biological father. Born in 1981 after her mother visited a fertility specialist in Vancouver, she has been told only that her father is Caucasian and was a medical student at the time of donation. Genetically, all she…
Internet Freedom Alert: Obama Admin Pushing Ahead Today with Dangerous “Internet Trusted Identity” Scheme
Lauren Weinstein sounds the alert: Greetings. At this moment — as I type this — the Obama administration is pushing forward with its horrendous DHS-linked “Trusted Internet Identity” scheme (formally – “NSTIC”: “National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace”) via a meeting and announcements today at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. As I’ve discussed…