Horrifying story out of Uganda via BBC: A judge in Uganda has ordered the local Rolling Stone newspaper to stop publishing the names and photographs of people it says are homosexual. The judge granted a request by gay rights group Sexual Minorities Uganda (Smug). The group says some homosexual people were attacked after a previous…
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Can you put your identity up for sale?
A man desperate to raise money for an operation his father needs could be exposing himself to prosecution for putting his identity up for sale. Rhianne Pope reports that Preston Likely, a print worker from Littlemore, may find that he’s gone from the financial frying pan into the fire: He said: “I have decided…
Message Board Operator Fights Discovery Order Requiring Disclosure of Identities and Private Messages — Concerned Citizens for Crystal City v. City of Crystal City
Venkat Balasubramani discusses a case in which the identities of everyone who posted in a forum were requested as part of discovery: Concerned Citizens for Crystal City, et al. v. City of Crystal City, et al., No. ED 94135 (Mo. Ct. App.; Oct. 26, 2010) As background, the case concerns a group and forum created…
DHS Privacy Office ordered TSA not to answer our FOIA request
Records posted online by the DHS in response to one of our FOIA requests confirm that, as we suspected, DHS headquarters has been illegally blocking release of documents we have requested, and to which we are entitled, under the Freedom of Information Act, in order to subject them to higher-level political review and an illegal requirement for higher-level political approval…