The Associated Press reports: A Chicago-area man accused of taping surreptitious nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews in a hotel room was arrested at Chicago’s O’Hare airport Friday night, the FBI said. Michael David Barrett faces federal charges of interstate stalking for taking the videos, trying to sell them to celebrity Web site TMZ…
Category: U.S.
Tip of the Hat, Wag of the Finger: PATRIOT Edition
Kevin Bankston of EFF writes: Yesterday’s Senate Judiciary mark-up of legislation to renew expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act was extremely disheartening–in particular because of many committee Democrats’ failure to support new civil liberties reforms to PATRIOT(see our summary here). Those Senators who failed to stand foursquare behind Americans’ right to privacy against government…
Bill to make P2P file sharing safer passes House Committee
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: The House Energy and Commerce Committee this week passed passed the Informed P2P User Act, which is designed to make it safer for consumers to use peer-to-peer, or P2P, file-sharing software. The bill, which was introduced by Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-Calif.) in March, now goes to the full House for approval….
D.A. won’t negotiate plea in Tesoro computer hacking case
Scott Martindale reports: Former Tesoro High School student Omar Khan is likely to face a jury trial in an elaborate school burglary and computer hacking case, unless he accepts the plea deal that was offered to him last year, the leading prosecutor on the case said today. Orange County Deputy District Attorney Charles Lawhorn said…