“Warrantless surveillance of American citizens, in defiance of FISA, is unlawful and unconstitutional.” President Barack Obama, December 20, 2007 “We owe the American people a reckoning.” Attorney General Eric Holder, June 13, 2008 And thus began the latest round in Al-Haramain v. Obama, a case seeking a ruling that the Terrorist Surveillance Program implemented during…
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NY AG suing Tagged.com
Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that he has served the social networking site Tagged.com (“Tagged”) with formal notice that his office intends to sue the company for deceptive email marketing practices and invasion of privacy. According to Cuomo’s notice of intent, Tagged devised an illegal plan to lure new members and artificially inflate…
Suicide linked to TJX probe
Jonathan James, a/k/a “c0mrade,” achieved fame as a teenager for hacking into NASA and the Pentagon and notoriety for becoming the first juvenile incarcerated for cybercrime in the United States. According to his family, James committed suicide in May 2008 at age 24, just weeks after Secret Service agents accused him of being part of…
Jewel v. NSA back in court next week
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Obama administration will be back in Judge Vaughn Walker’s court on July 15 when the court takes up the administration’s motion to dismiss a case involving warrantless surveillance of Americans. EFF brought the suit on behalf of Carolyn Jewel, a California database administrator who is an AT&T customer,…