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Yahoos Lawful Spying Guide - PDF
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Downloadable Yahoo pdf describes their procedures for supplying law enforcement with information gleaned from their customers. Currently fourth entry on Crytomes index. Internet privacy? Not guaranteed by Yahoo. Advertisement Your ad here!22 hours ago -
Law Enforcement Access to Geolocation Information from Telephone Companies
Slaw —
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Here’s a recent statistic from an American study: “Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with its customers’ (GPS) location information over 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009. This massive disclosure of sensitive customer information was made possible due to the roll-out by ...1 day ago -
Maricopa County Officer Refuses to Apologize
Law is Cool —
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By now, regular readers are very familiar with this ongoing saga out of Maricopa County, Arizona: it all began back in October when, during a sentencing hearing, Maricopa County Sheriff’s Officer Adam Stoddard stepped up behind defence attorney Joanne Cuccia, searched through her file, and retrieved a document – ...2 days ago -
GPS and Privacy Rights / Editorial- NYTimes.com
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GPS and Privacy Rights : Via Editorial - NYTimes.com . A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., heard arguments last week about whether police should have to get a warrant before putting a GPS device on a suspect’s car. It is a cutting-edge civil liberties question that has divided the courts that have ...3 days ago -
Smart Grid Privacy: Possible Privacy Standards To Address Concerns
Realtime Community | IT Compliance —
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Sorry to be so tardy in getting a blog post out. As many of you know Ive been working with the NIST Smart Grid Privacy Subgroup since late June. The work done for this group is through time volunteered by all involved. As a quick recap, I led the privacy impact assessment (PIA) for the consumer-to-utility portion ...5 days ago -
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Do CRU emails show FOIA wrong-doing?
Law is Cool —
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There’s been a lot of hype in the past few days about a batch of emails that were either hacked or leaked from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) . In the view of some opponents to climate change legislation, these emails depict collusion and conspiracy among leading climate change ...1 week ago -
Court Kills ‘Round-The-Clock’ Surveillance Case
Privacy Digest —
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Court Kills ‘Round-The-Clock’ Surveillance Case : Via Threat Level . Welcome to the tinfoil hat club. That’s what a federal appeals court is telling Scott Tooley of Kentucky in dismissing his civil rights lawsuit. Tooley believes the government put him under blanket surveillance after he said the word ...1 week ago -
Lawsuit: Use of rival’s name as keyword invades privacy
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Dinesh Ramde of Associated Press reports on a lawsuit in Wisconsin that makes an intriguing legal argument. The law firm of Habush, Habush, & Rottier is suing rival law firm Cannon & Dunphy for buying the words “Habush” and “Rottier” from Google for keywords. Habush argues that by purchasing the ...2 weeks ago -
201 CMR 17: What is it? And why are we hearing so much about it now?
CA on Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) —
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First off, the formalities: 201 CMR 17.00, it’s a lovely name, but what does it mean? 201 is the code for the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, CMR stands for Code of Massachusetts Regulation and finally 17 is their 17th published Commonwealth regulation. Most of us in the United ...2 weeks ago -
Court officer ordered to apologize
Law is Cool —
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In the latest developments of this bizarre case in Maricopa County, Arizona, Judge Gary Donohue has ruled that detention officer Adam Stoddard acted inappropriately when he removed and photocopied a document from the file defence attorney Joanne Cuccia. Judge Donohue has ordered Stoddard to apologize, however ...2 weeks ago -
Hasan and the Obligation to Intervene
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November 16, 2009, 6:00 a.m. Major Hasan: A Case Study in Responsibility (brought to you by FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com*) As everyone in the world with access to the media has been informed, "[Army] Major [Nidal Malik] Hasan, 39, an Army psychiatrist . . ., is accused of opening fire with a pistol on Nov. 5 at a ...2 weeks ago -
Reasons Not To Spy On Spouse
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Do you feel that your spouse is begin dishonest and could possibly be cheating on you? Well before you go out and begin trying to spy on them; let me give you some reasons not to spy on your spouse. When people feel that their spouse is cheating one of the first things they [...]2 weeks ago -
TSA nominee questioned over FBI censure
Privacy Digest —
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TSA nominee questioned over FBI censure : Via washingtonpost.com . Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) questioned President Obamas nominee to lead the nations airport security agency Tuesday about a censure he received from the FBI in 1988. Erroll Southers, who was serving as an FBI special agent at the time of the ...2 weeks ago -
Author Melanie Bueckert discusses employee monitoring law
Slaw —
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I’ve never pre-ordered a textbook until Melanie Bueckert’s “The Law of Employee Monitoring in Canada.” This is no slight to Melanie’s fantastic background, but I didn’t expect much. Though there are exceptions, many privacy texts tend to be thin on substance, perhaps because the domain is evolving so ...3 weeks ago -
Rhode Island Governor Vetoes E-ZPass Privacy Bill
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Rhode Island Governor Vetoes E-ZPass Privacy BillBill protecting drivers from warrantless tracking through toll transponders vetoed in Rhode Island. Rhode Island Governor Donald Carcieri (R) on Monday vetoed legislation that would have imposed privacy restrictions on the use of E-ZPass toll transponder data. The ...3 weeks ago -
Update on UK Council Surveilling Family Suspected of Living in Wrong School Zone
Privacy Digest —
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Update on UK Council Surveilling Family Suspected of Living in Wrong School Zone : Via Privacy Lives . Last year, the Poole Borough Council in the UK targeted for surveillance a family suspected of living in the wrong school zone. The council used powers it had under the 2000 Regulation of Investigatory Powers ...3 weeks ago -
15 Smart Grid Privacy Concerns + Other Smart Grid Thoughts
Realtime Community | IT Compliance —
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Ive had about half a dozen folks ask me how things are going with the work Im doing with the NIST Smart Grid privacy group , and if I could provide an update since my last couple of posts on the topic here and here .The time is going by much too quickly, and I am getting a bit nervous as we get closer to when we ...3 weeks ago -
Protecting internet anonymity: the case for providing notice to anonymous defendants in defamation cases
Law is Cool —
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An open issue in Canadian internet defamation law is whether courts should require that anonymous defendants be given notice of, and an opportunity to oppose, applications to compel the disclosure of their identities by third parties such as websites and internet service providers (“ISPs”). Because applications ...3 weeks ago -
Wanted: A Synopsis of Canadian Cybersecurity Laws
Slaw —
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I have been asked (by an American colleague) if I know of any synopsis of “Canadian cybersecurity laws”. I am told that this expression means some mix analogous to the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, covering as well wiretaps, crimes, specific requirements for securing data. Core is private sector rather than ...4 weeks ago
