Barbara Leonard reports: The Supreme Court will determine whether the government may be liable for an e-filing defect that allegedly published the expiration date of attorneys’ credit cards to the Internet. Attorney James Bormes used his credit card to pay the e-filing fee for a lawsuit he filed on behalf of one of his clients….
Category: Govt
Appeals Court Revives EFF’s Challenge to Government’s Massive Spying Program
Woo hoo! From EFF: The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today blocked the government’s attempt to bury the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF’s) lawsuit against the government’s illegal mass surveillance program, returning Jewel v. NSA to the District Court for the next step. The court found that Jewel had alleged sufficient specifics about the warrantless…
EPIC Sues DHS Over Covert Surveillance of Facebook and Twitter
From EPIC.org: EPIC has filed a Freedom of information Act lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security to force disclosure of the details of the agency’s social network monitoring program. In news reports and a Federal Register notice, the DHS has stated that it will routinely monitor the public postings of users on Twitter and Facebook. The agency…
Obama fills vacancies on independent privacy board
Jim McElhatton reports: President Obama has named two lawyers and a former federal judge to an independent privacy board recommended by the 9/11 Commission that has sat dormant for years under he and President George W. Bush. The nominations Thursday fill out the five-member Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, where vacancies have left the…