From my Twitter timeline, yesterday’s hearing was a bit of an exercise in tortuous reasoning and side-stepping. I’ll try to find some more write-ups about what happened, but here are two media reports already available: Ross Todd reports: Justice Department lawyers urged a federal judge on Tuesday to short circuit Twitter Inc.’s legal campaign to…
Category: Govt
How Private DNA Data Led Idaho Cops on a Wild Goose Chase and Linked an Innocent Man to a 20-year-old Murder Case
Jennifer Lynch writes: The New Orleans Advocate recently published a shocking story that details the very real threats to privacy and civil liberties posed by law enforcement access to private genetic databases and familial DNA searching. In 1996, a young woman named Angie Dodge was murdered in her apartment in a small town in Idaho. Although the police…
Canada poised to pass anti-terror legislation despite widespread outrage
John Barber reports: Widespread protest and souring public opinion has failed to prevent Canada’s ruling Conservative Party from pushing forward with sweeping anti-terror legislation which a battery of legal scholars, civil liberties groups, opposition politicians and pundits of every persuasion say will replace the country’s healthy democracy with a creeping police state. Read more on The Guardian.
IN: TRAI betrays privacy
The editors of the Deccan Chronicle in India address a breach noted earlier this week on DataBreaches.net: In an appalling act of recklessness, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has compromised the privacy of over a million Internet users of the country by publishing online all the responses of their consultation paper on Net neutrality. Either the bureaucrats running Trai are ignorant…