Joe Couture reports: Saskatchewan’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, Gary Dickson, released Monday a report on an investigation that dismissed three of four complaints against Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) but found one of the complaints was well-founded. In the report, the commissioner deals with four complaints that were raised by an injured worker regarding WCB…
Google Books limited to “common legal heritage”
Matthew Sag writes: On November 13, 2009, the parties in the Google Book litigation filed an Amended Settlement Agreement and a motion for preliminary approval of the amended settlement with the District Court. The amended agreement is available here. Elinor Mills at CNET has a good summary of the revised agreement. The most significant change…
The “techie” side of “Getting It Right”
Jim Burrows writes: The following posting is intended as part of the background information for a forthcoming Get FISA Right chat on the technological issues in “getting FISA right” or more generally balancing needed foreign intelligence gathering with the rights reserved and protected in the Constitution. We eagerly seek your comments here and your participation…
Weaknesses in CALEA Wiretaps
Matt Blaze writes: This week in Chicago, Micah Sherr, Gaurav Shah, Eric Cronin, Sandy Clark, and I have a paper at the ACM Computer and Communications Security Conference (CCS) that’s getting a bit more attention than I expected. The paper, Can They Hear Me Now? A Security Analysis of Law Enforcement Wiretaps [pdf] examines the…