Robert Verkaik reports: Britain has established a privacy law by stealth which has made inroads into all parts of society, a leading human rights law review shows today. The use of legal arguments based on the claimant’s right to a private life were once almost exclusively restricted to cases brought by celebrities against newspaper groups,…
Jury’s $1.8 million verdict a call for privacy rights
Ameet Sachdev reports: In the summer of 2005 Kathy Lawlor’s dad showed her a white envelope he retrieved from his neighbor’s garbage can, deposited there by a man Lawlor suspected had been following her. “Probe” was typed in the return address field. Next to it was a picture of an eye that looked to Lawlor…
When 2+2 Equals a Privacy Question
Natasha Singer writes: Time to revisit the always compelling — and often disconcerting — debate over digital privacy. So, what might your movie picks and your medical records have in common? How about a potentially false sense of control over who can see your user history? While Netflix and some health care concerns say they…
Govt continues to delay release of telecom lobbying documents
Richard Esguerra of EFF updates us as to developments over the past 48 hours: This evening (October 15), the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice filed yet another emergency motion with the Ninth Circuit, asking for a stay of the deadline to release telecom immunity lobbying documents, less than 24 hours before…