In a clear victory for transparency, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White today ordered the government to release more records about the lobbying campaign to provide immunity to the telecommunications firms that participated in the National Security Agency (NSA)’s warrantless surveillance program. The government has been ordered to provide the records to the Electronic Frontier…
DHS issues annual privacy report to Congress
The Department of Homeland Security Privacy Office has released its privacy report [pdf] for the period July 2008 – June 2009. As summarized in the report, the DHS Privacy Office: is the first statutorily mandated privacy office in the federal government. Its mission is to minimize the impact on an individual’s privacy, particularly an individual’s…
UK press regulator hints at less privacy protection for publicity-seeking celebs
The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) will take into account how much of a celebrity’s private life they have chosen to expose in the past when ruling on new allegations of invasion of privacy, it has said. The PCC, which is a voluntary industry self-regulatory body, has published changes to its voluntary Code of Conduct which…
Acorn sues filmmakers, cites privacy law
Ben Nuckols of Associated Press reports: Acorn and two former employees of its Baltimore office filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit Wednesday against the makers of a hidden-camera video that showed the employees giving tax advice to a man posing as a pimp and a woman posing as a prostitute. […] The lawsuit names James O’Keefe III…