Jano Gibson reports: The Northern Territory’s anti-corruption commissioner says his staff “must act with the utmost integrity” after police issued a woman with a notice to appear in court for alleged disclosure of confidential information. Earlier today, NT Police said detectives from the Special References Unit had executed a warrant and seized a 23-year-old woman’s…
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Oakland Activist Sues to Hold Postal Officers Accountable for Illegal Search and Seizure of his Mail
J. Justin Wilson writes: Today, an Oakland small business owner and activist partnered with the Institute for Justice (IJ) to sue U.S. Postal Service (USPS) officials for illegally stopping, seizing and searching a set of four ordinary boxes containing thousands of Covid-19 face masks bearing political messages in June 2020. The masks belonged to René…
Civil society to Amazon: Terminate your contract to host dangerous U.S. DHS biometric database
From AccessNow: Today, Access Now, Immigrant Defense Project, Just Futures Law, and over 35 human rights organizations sent a letter to Amazon Web Services calling on the company to end its agreement to host the United States Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) database. The letter was sent in coordination with a protest…
Twitter to pay $150 million penalty for allegedly breaking its privacy promises – again
By Lesley Fair It’s FTC 101. Companies can’t tell consumers they will use their personal information for one purpose and then use it for another. But according to the FTC, that’s the kind of digital bait-and-switch Twitter pulled on unsuspecting consumers. Twitter asked users for personal information for the express purpose of securing their accounts, but…