Two of the premier non-profits dealing with online civil rights sent out newsletters recently.
EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) Alert Volume 13.16:
"[1] Key Congressman Doubts DHS Privacy Officer's Qualifications
[2] Non Commercial Users Urge Privacy for WHOIS before IGF
[3] $50 Million Verdict for Violating Drivers' Privacy in FL
[4] GAO: Current Laws Don't Protect Info Held by Data Brokers
[5] RFID Passport Hacked"
(Story 3 especially interesting - Fidelity Federal Bank & Trust of West Palm Beach bought the names and addresses of 565,600 motorists for $5,656; by statute, they could've been responsible for paying $1.4 billion in fines).

EFFector Vol. 19, No. 29:
"AOL's Data Valdez Violates Users' Privacy
Surveillance, DRM Bills Held In Check, For Now
Senate Sneaks Through Cybercrime Treaty
Voting Security Attacked In Court Again"
About the Data Valdez: Consumerist lists web interfaces for searching the search records of the 650,000 users that AOL exposed on the Net. AOL claimed the records were sufficiently anonymized for sale, of course, but the New York Times managed to find one of the searchers based on the supposedly anonymous records.