Re: [Dataloss] News: Court Says Posting PII Online is Cool -- First Amendment Cool

[Adam Shostack <adam () homeport org>]

I don't yet grok the brief, but EPIC is **in favor** of this.  their
reasons:
http://epic.org/privacy/ostergren/Ostergren_EPIC_Amicus_Brief.pdf 

Adam

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 09:44:29PM -0400, David Shettler wrote:
| http://datalossdb.org/incident_highlights/47-court-says-posting-pii-online-is-cool-first-amendment-cool
| 
| I'm going to have to apologize in advance for the extreme use of
| ellipses here. I'm frankly confused as can be over this blog post, and
| the result is aggressive punctuation.
| 
| In what seems to be one of the most ridiculous situations we've read
| about recently, the Richmond Times reports
| (http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/local/article/SSNS24_20100323-223006/332515/
| ) that a U.S. District Court judge has ruled that a woman posting
| Social Security numbers of government workers online was, well...
| *cough*... *pains me to type this*...protected by the First Amendment.
| Yes... posting PII online is protected by the First Amendment. The
| judge ordered the state of Virginia to halt prosecution against her
| for doing so. The state has appealed, and a three judge panel is
| reviewing the appeal.
| 
| This is only part of the ridiculousness. This Virginia woman...
| 
| [snip]
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