Grant Gross reports: Three privacy groups have filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission about behavioral advertising practices, accusing Google, Yahoo and other advertising vendors of creating a “Wild West” atmosphere with few rules for protecting consumer privacy. The complaint, filed Thursday by the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), U.S. PIRG and the…
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Judge in Sarah Palin e-mail hacking case denies motion challenging computer search
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: FBI agents did not violate alleged hacker David Kernell’s Fourth Amendment rights when they searched through the entire contents of his computer in connection with their investigation, a federal magistrate judge ruled this week in the Sarah Palin e-mail hacking case. In a 41-page ruling this week, Judge Clifford Shirley in Knoxville…
European Body Moves on Privacy Front
James Kanter reports: The European Commission is seeking the right for its citizens to sue in American courts if they believe that airline passenger data transmitted to the United States has been misused — part of a new bid to make protecting privacy compatible with fighting terror. At a meeting Thursday and Friday in Madrid,…
What TSA is doing
Stewart Baker writes: The press has been spending a lot of time on TSA’s new policy. This New York Times story is representative (I’ve linked to it here because it has the first ever MSM reference to Skating on Stilts). Despite all the attention, though, there’s a surprising lack of certainty about exactly what TSA…