Michael Arrington of TechCrunch discusses the dilemma they grappled with when they received a zip file from “Hacker Croll” containing hundreds of confidential corporate and personal documents of Twitter and Twitter employees. There is clearly an ethical line here that we don’t want to cross, and the vast majority of these documents aren’t going to…
Today’s the day, Jewel v. NSA
At 10:30 a.m. today, PT, in a federal courtroomin San Francisco, Judge Vaughn Walker will hear oral arguments in the government’s motion to dismiss Jewel v. NSA, a case involving the warrantless surveillance of millions of Americans. Kevin Bankston of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will be representing the plaintiffs. As it has done in…
Woman threatens suit against Tigo over info leak
Millicom Ghana, operators of Tigo could soon be in the dock for allegedly releasing confidential information about a subscriber. A married woman, name withheld, accused the network operator of providing her ‘jealous’ husband with details of her call records. […] She was however surprised when the husband produced a detailed account of all calls she…
Employee sacked for smutty emails is reinstated
A worker sacked for sending dozens of grubby emails has got his job back after successfully arguing that the correspondence was part of a wider work culture. Philip Walker said a culture of sending emails “where the content was not likely to offend and was banter between colleagues” existed at his Safe Air workplace in…