fifth amendment
Google fined by FCC over Street View
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Web giant to pay $25,000 for collecting personal information without permission and impeding investigationGoogle has been fined $25,000 for impeding a US investigation into its collection of wireless network data for its Street View project, which allows users to see street level images when they map a location.The Federal Communications...
Google, Wi-Fi snooping and the ever-shifting “creepy” line
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Google’s snooping of wireless networks via its Streetview cars — behavior that triggered an FCC investigation as well as multiple lawsuits — is back in the news, with a report on Tuesday from the New York Times that identifies the engineer behind the project. But while there has been...
Constitutional showdown voided: Feds decrypt laptop without defendant’s help
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Colorado federal authorities have decrypted a laptop seized from a bank-fraud defendant, mooting a judge’s order that the defendant unlock the hard drive so the government could use its contents as evidence against her. The development ends a contentious legal showdown over whether forcing a defendant to decrypt a...
Analysis: right to record cops extends to private settings
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In the past year, two different appeals courts have ruled that recording the actions of police officers in public places is protected by the First Amendment. A new legal analysis argues that the right to record the actions of law enforcement is also protected by the Constitution's due process clause....
WikiLeaks supporter David House lashes out against Julian Assange
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MIT computer scientist attacks founder in series of tweets that claim his actions 'put WikiLeaks supporters at risk'Julian Assange has lost another of his dwindling band of loyal supporters. David House, one of very few people to have met both Assange and the WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning, has denounced the...
Invocation
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DH: I invoke. PM: Is that because of the phalanx of attorneys present here today? Court Stenographer: I’m sorry, the what of attorneys? PM: Phalanx… the phalanx of attorneys. DH: As to the phalanx of attorneys, I invoke. –David House, invoking the fifth amendment for every question except his name...
Court upholds Fifth Amendment, prevents forced decryption of data
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When our forefathers were amending the constitution for the fifth time, they probably didn't have TrueCrypt-locked hard drives in mind. However, a ruling from the 11th Circuit Appeals Court has upheld the right of an anonymous testifier to not forcibly decrypt their data. The case relates to a Jon...
Verizon: net neutrality violates our free speech rights
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"Can you hear me now?" Aurich Lawson Verizon pressed its argument against the Federal Communications Commission's new network neutrality rules on Monday; filing a legal brief with the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. The company argued the FCC's rules not only exceeded the agency's regulatory...
Appeals court: Fifth Amendment protections can apply to encrypted hard drives
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Two rulings this week helped to clarify the circumstances under which a defendant can be compelled to reveal the contents of an encrypted hard drive. On Wednesday, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals let stand a judge's ruling in a Colorado case that the defendant in a mortgage fraud...
Yahoo warns Facebook over 16 more patents
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Facebook, in the run-up to its much-anticipated initial public offering, has amended its IPO filing four times to reflect new information from its ongoing legal battle with Yahoo. Now the social network has filed a fifth amendment, in which it releases a letter wherein Yahoo claims that Facebook risks violating...
FCC suggests mild $25,000 Google fine over Street View Wi-Fi
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The FCC late Friday put forward a proposal for a $25,000 fine for Google's refusal to hand over Street View Wi-Fi data. Officials accused Google of having "deliberately impeded and delayed" an investigation into what information its Street View cars had collected from Wi-Fi hotspots. Among the obstacles was a...
Court rejects appeal, rules defendant must decrypt laptop
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A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that a defendant must decrypt her laptop so that files on it could be used by the prosecution in a case of alleged mortgage fraud. The defendant's lawyer had appealed a ruling to decode the data, arguing that decrypting the data was tantamount...
Spying school took "thousands" of photos of students with covert webcam app, caught kids sleeping, half-dressed
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More details have come to light in the case of the Lower Merion School District spying on its students with covert laptop webcam software. The school district of the affluent Philadelphia suburb issued mandatory laptops to its students, each one loaded with software that could covertly activate the laptops' webcams,...
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