Mary E. O’Leary reports: The large database compiled by Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz, which is the subject of a whistleblower complaint, appears to violate a statute that forbids disclosing the home addresses of public safety and court personnel. A review of the 36,000 names kept by her office includes more than 750 firefighters,…
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Unpaid Parking Tickets Linked To Police Officers
David Goldstein reports that some police officers are able to get away with not paying parking tickets because the privacy laws that protect their addresses from would-be criminals also makes it difficult for state agencies to track them down to send them notices that their parking tickets haven’t been paid: Officer William Grundy with the…
Woman loses privacy case over Bebo pictures published in magazine
A magazine did not intrude into a young woman’s privacy when it published photos that she had uploaded to social networking site Bebo when she was 15 because the images had already been widely circulated online. The woman complained to press self-regulatory body the Press Complaints Commission (PCC). She said that an article and photographs…
Joe Lieberman’s latest assault on American values
Slightly off-topic for PogoWasRight.org, but was anyone else as embarrassed as I was to see Joe Lieberman explaining how he would introduce legislation that would automatically strip Americans of their citizenship if they “affiliated with” known terrorist organizations? Not only does Lieberman stand due process on its head, but he seemed to display an amazing…