Owen Bowcott reports: Mass surveillance of the internet by the British monitoring agency GCHQ was unlawful until the end of last year, the UK’s most secretive court has ruled. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) ruled on Friday that the agency’s access to intercepted information obtained by the US National Security Agency (NSA) breached human rights law….
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US legal opinion upheld privacy protections of census data
AP reports: A newly released legal opinion says the Commerce Department is not required to provide census data to federal law enforcement or national security investigators. The Justice Department this week turned over a 2010 opinion from its Office of Legal Counsel after dropping a public records court fight with a privacy group. Read more…
Judge tosses evidence obtained by agents posing as Internet repairmen
Ken Ritter of AP reports: Undercover FBI and Nevada regulatory agents misled a federal judge and violated the rights of a wealthy Malaysian businessman and his son by posing as Internet repairmen to get into Las Vegas Strip hotel rooms in a gambling probe last summer, a U.S. magistrate judge said. In a case with…
Website Operator Banned from the ‘Revenge Porn’ Business After FTC Charges He Unfairly Posted Nude Photos (UPDATED with statement by domain owner)
From the FTC: The operator of an alleged “revenge porn” website is banned from publicly sharing any more nude videos or photographs of people without their affirmative express consent, under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. In addition, he will have to destroy the intimate images and personal contact information he collected while operating the site….