The man in an ad a for prostate device wears a smile on his healthy- and happy-looking face. He isn’t smiling now. Ubaldo Dominguez Ramos, a 58-year-old model from Brooklyn Center, claims that Fridley-based Medtronic defamed him by illegally using his photograph in an ad touting its prostate device next to the words, “Now I…
Category: U.S.
ALERT Government Privacy Act
Online access to public records containing Social Security Numbers (SSNs) by anyone, anywhere and for any reason should be banned in every state because it facilitates the growing crime of identity theft. Senator Chuck Schumer introduced the ALERT Government Privacy Act or Avoiding Sleepy Local Government’s Online Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information. This bill comes…
Army spying on anti-war group could violate federal law
A Yale Law School faculty member and military law expert said he is disturbed by allegations that Fort Lewis employed a civilian who spied on an Olympia-based anti-war organization. Eugene R. Fidell, a former judge advocate for the Coast Guard and the president of the National Institute of Military Justice, said such a practice appeared…
P2P ban plan for govt gets mixed response
A proposal to introduce a bill seeking to formally ban the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing applications on government and contractor networks is evoking a mixed response. Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-NY) yesterday announced his intention to introduce such a bill, after he, and other members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee heard…