| Lawyers dig into FasTrak data
Neither the privacy policy nor the customer license agreement explains that court orders may include subpoenas in civil cases, which do not require a judge's approval unless they are contested. In one case, a judge agreed to quash a subpoena for FasTrak records. The case involves a 70-year-old San Francisco man who is suing a business that fired him after three decades. He claims he worked hard. The company sought to prove he didn't. Sonya Smallets, a San Francisco attorney, argued that releasing FasTrak data "would be an unwarranted, Orwellian invasion" of her client's privacy. "When people get a FasTrak account they're expecting to pay to go across the bridge," she said in an interview. "They're not expecting somebody's going to be tracking every single one of their movements and creating a record that would be available to the public." Earlier attempts to create an anonymous e-toll system, in which drivers could buy value cards to use with their transponders, went largely ignored by toll authorities, said Phil Agre, a UCLA information studies professor and author of "Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape." McMillan noted that people with concerns have another option: pay cash.
Martin Scorsese directs American Express campaign
MUMBAI: American Express in the US has united some of its high-profile card members for the next iteration of the Are you a card member? campaign to highlight the company's unique online initiative called The Members Project. The Members Project enables American Express Cardmembers to come together as a community to submit project ideas for making a positive impact in the world, rate and discuss their ideas and ultimately vote and choose one idea that American Express will help bring to life with up to $5 million. .
Crass Laughs
In the last few weeks, as I've stuck my head into Kansas City's burgeoning stand-up comedy scene, I've found myself pondering motherfucker. How did this word — this taboo of such universal power that it would make Caveman A clock Caveman B right in the caveman junk — replace the word um? Linguists tell us that its recorded usage came some 70 years ago. But what matters is that, as it caught on, it shifted from childish insult to boast of badassedness, from unutterable curse to the sole reason that Samuel L. Jackson doesn't have to act anymore. .
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