Georgia Garvey reports: Buffalo Grove Village Trustee Lisa Stone should be told the name of the man she accuses of making defamatory online comments about her 15-year-old son, a judge ruled Monday in a case being watched for its Internet privacy implications. Cook County Circuit Judge Jeffrey Lawrence ordered that the identity of a person…
From EFF’s Secret Files: Anatomy of a Bogus Subpoena
From the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): Can the U.S. government secretly subpoena the IP address of every visitor to a political website? No, but that didn’t stop it from trying. In a report released today, EFF Senior Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston tells the story of a bogus federal subpoena issued to independent news site Indymedia.us,…
News of the World cleared of hacking charges
John Leyden of The Register reports: The UK press self-regulation body has dismissed allegations that phone tapping of celebrities was endemic and ongoing at British tabloid the News of the World. The PCC investigation began in July after the Guardian reported how the NotW paid out more than £1m to settle privacy lawsuits from public…
Tagged.com tagged for $250k by Texas
Tagged.com also settled with the Texas Attorney General’s Office today: Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today resolved an enforcement action against Tagged, Inc., a social networking site operator that has an estimated two million Texas users. Under an agreed final judgment obtained by the state, Tagged must implement new privacy features and take additional measures…