The BBC reports that Twitter is speaking with lawyers after over 300 documents were hacked and then published on the web. As reported yesterday, TechCrunch has published some of the documents that did not contain personal information. But the hacked documents being published are not the only security problem Twitter is dealing with this week….
ID theft law enacted in CT
Criminals who target senior citizens while committing identity theft will face tougher penalties this year under a law that passed with bipartisan support. The law also empowers the state to seize cash and property obtained through identity theft and use it to reimburse victims. […] The new bill bars businesses from printing their customers’ Social…
EU ‘Big Brother’
The European Union’s wide-ranging Stockholm Programme risks further damaging citizens’ hard earned privacy rights, argues Pirate Party member and long-time libertarian blogger Henrik Alexandersson. EU ministers are gathering in Stockholm this week to advance their work on the Stockholm Programme, a five-year plan they claim is designed to make it easier to catch criminals and…
Sotomayor on “right to privacy”
During Senator Orrin Hatch’s questioning of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, the nominee discussed the “right of privacy:” She said the “right to privacy” is actually a misnomer. “I’ve not viewed what the court has been doing as creating a right that doesn’t exist in the words of the Constitution. What I understand the court…