Both John Travolta and David Letterman have been the targets of extortion attempts, and both men have gone public and testified against the alleged extortionists. In Travolta’s case, Liz McNeil and Siobhan Morrissey of PEOPLE magazine explain that the plot began with the tragedy of Travolta’s son’s death in their Bahaman home. Tarino Lightbourn, an…
Category: Misc
DOJ: Proposed Settlement Reached in State Secrets Suit
Mike Scarcella of The Blog of Legal Times reports: A tentative settlement has been reached in a long-running suit that alleges a former intelligence agent and a State Department official unlawfully eavesdropped on a DEA agent, potentially bringing the state secrets case to an abrupt close and sparing the Justice Department a loss on appeal….
Rotenberg: What’s Privacy in the Age of Facebook?
Marc Rotenberg, the Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), has a piece over on Huffington Post: Modern privacy begins with the understanding that personal information will be widely accessible. That’s as true for web 2.0 as it was for the early Internet, and for the telephone. It’s a paradox to be sure….
DHS issues annual privacy report to Congress
The Department of Homeland Security Privacy Office has released its privacy report [pdf] for the period July 2008 – June 2009. As summarized in the report, the DHS Privacy Office: is the first statutorily mandated privacy office in the federal government. Its mission is to minimize the impact on an individual’s privacy, particularly an individual’s…