Cindy Cohn writes: EFF filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit’s en banc review of Mohamed v. Jeppesen, a case brought by the ACLU challenging the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program. A panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals had rejected the government’s argument that the case had to be dismissed at the outset…
Facebook users prone to ID theft
James E-Smith reports: IT security and data protection firm, Sophos, conducted an online study whereby they created two fictitious users: 21 year-old “Daisy Felettin” who was represented by a picture of a toy rubber duck and 56 year-old “Dinette Stonily” with a profile picture of two cats lying on a rug. Each sent out 100…
Red Flags rule doesn’t wave for non-financial entities
Bret Cohen writes: On December 1, Judge Reggie Walton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a memorandum opinion in a lawsuit by the American Bar Association against the Federal Trade Commission, explaining his October 29 ruling from the bench that the FTC’s Red Flags Rule does not apply to lawyers. Holding…
Seattle man sentenced to two years in prison for 35 years of ID theft
Clark Mower, 58, of Seattle, Washington was sentenced on Friday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to two years in prison and one year of supervised release for Aggravated Identity Theft. Mower had used the personally identifying information of a family acquaintance for more than 30 years to avoid prosecution for drug and alcohol charges….