e-Claire

Flashbacks??? forwards ????

makin’ me dizzy

Google and an alliance of privacy groups have come to Yahoo’s aid by helping the Web portal fend off a broad request from the U.S. Department of Justice for e-mail messages

rly?  ∅-Bambi wants my email?  He isn’t surrounded by enough jokes already?!?

Yahoo has been quietly fighting prosecutors’ requests in front of a federal judge in Colorado, with many documents filed under seal. Tuesday’s brief from Google and the other groups aims to buttress Yahoo’s position by saying users who store their e-mail in the cloud enjoy a reasonable expectation of privacy that is protected by the U.S. Constitution.

“Society expects and relies on the privacy of e-mail messages just as it relies on the privacy of the telephone system,” the friend-of-the-court brief says.

The Constawhatnow?

1. Meanwhile, “All your tweets are belong to us”:

   Are Twitter’s messages valuable for research?
   “... Library of Congress’ kickoff of a project to archive all messages—or tweets, as they’re known—sent over the popular social-networking site.”

   Srsly.  U no?

   Posted by ZZMike  on  04/16/10  at  10:26 PM

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