Two federal appeals judges are explaining why they voted to deny an en banc rehearing of a decision requiring police to get a warrant before searching cellphones incident to arrest.
An Indiana jury awarded $1.44 million Friday to a customer whose prescription records were provided by a Walgreen’s pharmacist to the customer’s ex-boyfriend.
Brian Zulberti apparently hoped to stand out among the horde of recent law graduates seeking legal work by including a nontraditional photo of himself in a mass email to potential…
A wide swath of interest groups, ranging from Greenpeace to gun rights advocates, have joined the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a coalition of 19 organizations in filing a legal challenge…
Japanese bureaucrats and journalists admittedly failed to set privacy guards when using Google Groups to chat and share documents online, inadvertently revealing confidential information to anyone who accidentally happened upon…
As Facebook rolls out a new “Graph Search” feature that will make it easier for users to collect data, now is the time for users to check their privacy settings.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center is filing an emergency petition with the U.S. Supreme Court asking for a halt to the National Security Agency’s collection of Americans’ phone records.
A special surveillance court of 11 judges appointed by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has issued a series of secret rulings that give the National Security Agency authority to…
A Georgia school district administrator plucked a senior’s bikini photo from Facebook to illustrate the risks of posting pictures on the Internet, according to a $2 million privacy lawsuit filed…
It isn’t just when using the Internet and making cellphone calls that Americans should assume what used to be considered private information may be known by corporate and/or government entities.
The lawyer for a Florida man accused in a series of bank robbery attempts says phone records collected by the National Security Agency could prove his client wasn’t at one…
An actress who starred in a local law firm commercial spoofing plaintiffs who exaggerate their injuries has sued the producer, claiming it licensed the spot to other law firms without…