Archive for the ‘Privacy’ Category
Friday, February 15th, 2008
Danah boyd has a great post examining the dangers of losing our online identities at the whims of corporate decisionmakers.
If we get our GMail/FaceBook/Yahoo! account hijacked, what can we do when the company deletes it and all our related data? If we're connected, that's one thing, but what about those ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Bad news, as the Senate overwhelmingly voted to legalize President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program and also decided not to amend a bill that would prevent telecom companies from getting immunity for giving the government access to phone records of millions of people.A quote from an article from Wired that talks ...
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
The TSA blog, Evolution of Security, is an honest-to-goodness attempt to communicate with the public and (here's the shocker) listen to feedback.
The bloggers are employees who are free to write in a casual blogging style. One made a joke about heavy drinking in New Orleans on Fat Tuesday. Responses range ...
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
Read the story at CNet.
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
On Thursday, the US House passed a FISA reform bill without granting immunity to telecommunications companies accused of assisting illegal eavesdropping on US citizens.
As we noted last month, the White House and telecoms pressed for retroactive immunity. This pressure has not worked--at least not yet--despite Bush's threat of a veto.
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007
In light of publicity surrounding a series of incidents in the Boulder Valley School District, high school administrators in Colorado have been publicly defending their right to read students' text messages in search of incriminating evidence of breaches of school rules.
According to the Colorado ACLU letter to the Boulder Valley ...
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Here is a letter I just sent to Rep. Albio Sires (D-NJ), my elected representative, with added links:
Dear Rep. Sires,
I am a voter in your district, and I am writing in regards to H.R. 3773, the RESTORE Act. I urge you not to support this legislation unless it meets two ...
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
A number of European governments are considering measures to track cellular and online communication.
Proposals include requirements that cell providers keep records of your physical location during all calls (Netherlands) and prohibit the use of false information in registering for email accounts (Germany). These are being offered in the name of ...
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Thursday, February 8th, 2007
The lead-in paragraphs from 3 stories on CNet say a lot more when put together than they do separately:
WASHINGTON--Google CEO Eric Schmidt's nightmare scenario for a future Internet looks like this: As billions more people go online, those in power are so "freaked out" about the misuse of personal information ...
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Friday, January 26th, 2007
The state of Maine has passed a resolution refusing to implement the Real ID Act.
The federal law, passed in 2005, orders states to adopt Department of Homeland Security-approved ID cards. It also requires citizens to have one of these cards or other federally-approved ID, such as a passport, to fly, ...
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