They sometimes call national security the third rail of politics. Touch it and, politically, you’re dead. The cliché doesn’t seem far off the mark after reading Mark Klein’s new book, “Wiring up the Big Brother Machine … and Fighting It.” It’s an account of his experiences as the whistleblower who exposed a secret room at…
Google not liable for defamatory search results
Google is not the publisher of defamatory words that appear in its search results, the High Court ruled yesterday. Even when Google had been told that its results contained libellous words, it was not liable as a publisher, said Mr Justice Eady. The search giant’s US and UK operations were sued in England by a…
Report: DMV clerk improperly accessed data
A former state Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) employee was referred for prosecution after she accessed an adversary’s vehicle data during a private dispute, according to a report released Friday by state Inspector General Joseph Fisch. Debbie Mitchell, 38, of Albany, used her state computer to obtain information, in violation of the Federal Drivers Privacy…
Belgium fines Yahoo for protecting user privacy
from the this-is-bad… dept For many years, we’ve discussed the many challenges faced by countries in trying to recognize that “jurisdiction” on the internet isn’t what they probably think it is. Many countries want to interpret internet jurisdiction as “if it’s accessible here via the internet, it’s covered by our laws.” But it doesn’t take…