Last October, the ACLU filed suit after an incident that still boggles my mind. As Cecilia Wang of the ACLU described the background at the time: On February 22, 2017, Delta Airlines Flight 1583 departed San Francisco and headed for John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. As the plane was landing, passengers heard a…
Category: Govt
Revealed: FBI kept files on peaceful climate change protesters
Adam Federman reports: On 15 May 2016 three friends from Fairfield, Iowa, made the five-hour drive to an oil refinery on the shores of Lake Michigan to participate in what was part of a series of protests and acts of civil disobedience in the fight against climate change. They had every intention of getting arrested. What…
Chinese police close 1,100 social media accounts over online trolling
Xinhua reports: China’s Ministry of Public Security said on Saturday it has closed 31 websites and 1,100 social media accounts suspected of engaging in trolling activities or posting messages for extortion since the start of this year. The police also busted 28 cases involving unlawful activities of paid online trolls, or ghostwriters hired to post…
FTC Hearing on Consumer Protection on December 11-12
Daniel Solove will be one of the speakers. Dan tweeted: I will be speaking at the FTC Hearing on Data Security on Dec 12 https://t.co/FZv9VRe1Zc via @TeachPrivacy @DanielSolove Many terrific speakers at this event, including @hartzog, my co-author of a book on data security, forthcoming from Oxford U Press. pic.twitter.com/UvQxlegO7F — Daniel J. Solove (@DanielSolove)…