Matt Bartosik writes: When a financial services company read some recent comments on an Internet chat board, their reaction was far from “Yahoo!” Advance Equities, Inc. filed suit on Monday, claiming false defamatory statements were posted on Yahoo’s financial chat board on November 9, 2009. As is the nature of a chat board, the statements…
Ie: Lenihan broadcast could lead to privacy law rethink
Michael Foley, the head of journalism at DIT, wrote this analysis of TV3’s recent broadcast about Finance Minister Brian Lenihan’s health: The decision of TV3 to run a story concerning the health of Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan on St Stephen’s Day was based on rumour, with only one justification – to be first, and…
Homeland Security Blinks Over REAL ID Act
Travis Sanford reports: The Department of Homeland Security has indefinitely lifted its January 1 deadline to allow federal agencies to accept state driver’s licenses and ID cards before allowing people to board commercial airplanes or enter federal buildings and nuclear power plants. The decision to stay the controversial REAL ID Act of 2005 was in…
Debate Over Full-Body Scans vs. Invasion of Privacy Flares Anew After Incident
John Schwartz reports: The technology exists to reveal objects hidden under clothes at airport checkpoints, and many experts say it would have detected the explosive packet carried aboard the Detroit-bound flight last week. But it has been fought by privacy advocates who say it is too intrusive, leading to a newly intensified debate over the…