David Hench reports: A federal judge will rule Wednesday on whether the state may require two national organizations that are working to repeal Maine’s gay-marriage law to disclose their contributors. The National Organization for Marriage and American Principles in Action have challenged the state campaign finance laws that apply to ballot question committees, arguing that…
UK police forces challenged over files held on law-abiding protesters
Rob Evans and Paul Lewis report: Chief constables will be forced to justify the legality of recording thousands of law-abiding protesters on secret nationwide databases, the government’s privacy watchdog announced today. Christopher Graham, the information commissioner, said he had “genuine concerns about the ever increasing amount” of personal data held by police. Graham’s move came…
Socialite Charged with Hacking Voice Mail
Most of us carry a cell phone to stay in touch. But, as CBS News Science and Technology correspondent Daniel Sieberg reports, you might be surprised to learn just how easy it is to violate your privacy or even trick you. A high-profile publicist is accused of hacking into the voice mail of some other…
Identity theft a growing menace to social networkers
Gordon Smith reports: People posting apparently innocuous information on social networking sites could leave themselves open to identity theft, a computer security conference heard this week. Presenting a keynote address at the RSA conference in London, People Security’s chief security strategist Hugh Thompson said that while posting on social networks has grown, “there hasn’t been…