Privacy group sues Army over surveillance of soldiers' blogs, Web sites
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a lawsuit seeking more information about a U.S. Army unit that scours the Web looking for sensitive military information posted on blogs and Web sites by military personnel.
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A California Army National Guard soldier sued the military in federal court Tuesday over a program that could keep up to 20,000 Army personnel beyond their time of service.
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Civil liberties groups made common cause today with the Justice Department, a traditional target of their lawsuits, by filing court papers supporting the government&#39;s appeal of a court ruling that said internet service providers are allowed to snoop on
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Lt. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, who became the face of the American military effort in Iraq in 2006 and 2007, begs the armed services to let troops blog and post to YouTube. But Army rules squeeze military bloggers hard and military nets ban the video site.
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Eight US soldiers serving in Iraq launched a legal challenge yesterday to stop their tours of duty from being extended. The lawsuit is the first of its kind by a group of American soldiers on active service in the country.
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A report by the Army's inspector general concludes that a controversial data-mining project involving airline passenger records did not violate federal privacy law. Critics say the report misinterprets the law. By Ryan Singel.
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Twelve homosexuals expelled from the  U.S. military sued the government on Monday, demanding to be  reinstated based on last year's Supreme Court ruling that  overturned state laws making gay sex a crime.
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Plaintiffs in privacy case against government allege members of Bush administration have  confirmed existence of spy program and want the ability to pursue civil suit.
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The group that owns the Barney brand is being sued for allegations of relentless harassment of Web site owners who parody the Barney character.
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Six Navy SEALs and the wives of two of them sued The Associated Press and a reporter on Tuesday for publishing photos taken from a Web site that appeared to show the troops abusing prisoners in Iraq.
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Two civil liberties groups have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, complaining that the agency&#39;s Customs and Border Protection (CBP) division has routinely searched many U.S. citizens&#39; laptops and other electronic devices and questioned them about their religious practices and political beliefs.
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An animal-rights group has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the U.S. Department of Agriculture of improperly withholding information gathered during its investigation into the near-fatal tiger attack on illusionist Roy Horn.
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Two civil liberties groups have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, complaining that the agency&#39;s Customs and Border Protection (CBP) division has routinely searched many U.S. citizens&#39; laptops and other electronic devices and questioned them about their religious practices and political beliefs.The lawsuit, filed on&#160;Thursday by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Asian Law Caucus, asks a federal judge to force CBP to comply with an information request, filed by the two groups on Oct. 31. The two groups filed a Freedom of Information Act request asking CBP to detail its policies for searching laptops, MP3 players, mobile phones, digital cameras, and other electronic devices. The two groups also sought information about CBP&#39;s policy on questioning travelers about political views, religious practices, and other activities &quot;potentially covered by the First Amendment&quot; to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees freedom of religion and speech.The two groups also wanted the CBP to explain its policy for responding to a traveler who refused to answer questions and its policy for allowing a detained traveler to contact a lawyer.Many residents of Northern California have reported that &quot;CBP officials have subjected them to lengthy and intrusive questioning upon their return to the United States,&quot; the complaint says. &quot;Individuals who protest such questioning or searches have been told that they have no choice but to cooperate as they are at an international border.&quot;In one case, Nabila Mango, a U.S. citizen coming home from the Middle East, was asked by customs agents at San Francisco International Airport to name every person she had met and every place she had slept during her trip, according to a news release from the civil liberties groups. Agents searched her Arabic music books, business cards, and mobile phone, the groups said.Another U.S. citizen, IT consultant Amir Khan, has been stopped multiple times when returning to the United States, the groups said. He&#39;s been questioned for hours, and customs agents have searched his laptop, personal notebooks, and mobile phone, the groups said.CBP officials have asked U.S.-based travelers about their families, volunteer activities, and educational backgrounds, the complaint says. In addition, they&#39;ve demanded to see files on laptops, browser histories, mobile phone directories, personal photographs, business cards, and other personal materials, according to the complaint.U.S. residents have a right to know the government&#39;s standards for border searches, said Marcia Hofmann, an EFF staff attorney. &quot;Laptops, phones, and other gadgets include vast amounts of personal information,&quot; she said in a statement. &quot;When will agents read your e-mail? When do they copy data, where is it stored, and for how long? How will this information follow you throughout your life?&quot;A CBP spokeswoman didn&#39;t immediately respond to a request for a comment on the lawsuit.
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Facing a copyright lawsuit from MPAA, company is trying to avoid disclosing user information.
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Retailer Sears, Roebuck & Co has been  hit with a lawsuit seeking class-action status that alleges a  company Web site compromises customers' private information.
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Privacy breach suit launched A trio of AOL subscribers are suing the media giant over the public release of search engine queries.â¦
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Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group. The group is seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users.