From WikiLeaks.org: This file presents a draft law for internet and telephony spying from the Swedish department of justice. The document was mentioned, but not released, by Svenska Dagbladet on Dec 12, 2009 [1]. The legislation is aimed at giving Swedish police and domestic intelligence the power to automatically intercept internet traffic that passes through…
Google Faces a Different World in Italy
Eric Pfanner reports on the trial of four Google executives in Milan. They have been charged criminally in conjunction with a video that appeared on Google Video that showed a disabled student being set upon by four teens who actually taped and uploaded the video. Google executives have been charged with privacy invasion as well…
Government points finger at Internet, Internet points back
This has been a busy month for John Young of Cryptome.org. Not only did he post a slew of not-for-public-distribution compliance guides for law enforcement seeking subscriber or customer data, but he also posted an unredacted version of a Transportation Security Administration manual that had been inadequately redacted. To top things off, Cryptome published some…
Supreme Court may decide whether workers’ text messages are private
Workplace privacy issues seem to be back in the legal news this week. David. G. Savage of the Baltimore Sun reports on a case before the U.S. Supreme Court you may want to know about if you send text messages on employer-provided devices: Workplace rights advocates are closely following a California case now before the…