Daniel Weaver reports: In a decision posted yesterday, Kings County Family Court Judge, Jeanette Ruiz, refused to grant the Administration for Children’s services permission to enter the home of J. Smith. Children’s Services had applied for a pre-petition ex-parte court order as part of an ongoing investigation which began when someone anonymously called the State…
EFF Fights for Anonymity for Online Critic in Friday Hearing
From the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has asked a federal judge in San Francisco to quash a baseless subpoena aimed at outing an anonymous online critic of a Pennsylvania company called USA Technologies. A hearing in the case is set for Friday. Earlier this year, EFF’s client — Yahoo! user…
Presidential Task Force on Controlled Unclassified Information Releases Report and Recommendations
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder today announced two major steps in their efforts to implement reforms to enhance information sharing among federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies and safeguard sensitive information used by the government—designed to expand joint capabilities to protect the United States from…
Lost Laptop is no more
It looks like The Inquirer‘s coverage of Lost Laptop may have resulted in the site/business being removed. David Neal updates us all: LOST LAPTOP, the, er, entrepreneurial website that we took to our hearts, is no more. We couldn’t quite believe the site’s premise when it launched. People who found laptops could send the unit…