Brett Barrouquere of the Associated Press reports: A Kentucky appeals court upheld a $6.1 million award to a former fast food worker who was forced to strip in a McDonald’s restaurant office after someone called posing as a police officer. The appellate court on Friday ruled that Illinois-based McDonald’s Corp., knew about a series of…
Editorial: Speech and privacy
The following editorial appeared in the Providence Journal: It may have been mere incompetence, but it is chilling that the Obama Justice Department sent a subpoena for an undeclared reason to an Internet news site, Indymedia.us, demanding records of all traffic to that site on June 25, 2008. Even more ominously, it demanded “all other…
Mussolini’s ‘brain and blood’ removed from eBay auction
Nick Pisa reports: Police were tonight investigating claims from the granddaughter of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini that part of his brains had been offered for sale on eBay. Alessandra Mussolini called police after being tipped off that three glass phials holding his brains and blood in a wooden box, and a photocopy of autopsy documents…
Congress Unlikely to Reform Privacy Act
Eric Chabrow reports: If Dan Chenok were a bookmaker, he’d make enactment of Privacy Act reform a long shot, at least for the foreseeable future. “The odds privacy legislation would be enacted next session are not high,” says Chenok, who backs Privacy Act reform as chairman of the government’s Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board,…