Internet

What will Twitter do with all that data?

Lauren Weinstein writes: Soon, Twitter will be collecting data on which Twitter... 

Can Privacy Sell Ping?

Riva Richmond reports: Apple moved quickly to allay potential concerns about information... 

Facebook CEO wants private life kept out of ownership challenge

This will tickle some readers’ irony bone. Jonathan Stempel reports: Facebook... 

India Threatens Ban On Google, Skype

Paul McDougall reports: Having given RIM a 60-day reprieve from a ban on Blackberry... 

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Surveillance

Snooping on a snoop: RCMP installed hidden cameras in Montreal detective’s HQ

RCMP investigators testified in court Thursday how they installed hidden cameras... 

FISA Court Proposes New Court Rules

Steven Aftergood writes: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has proposed... 

Israel Data Access Stopped After Irish Objection

Objections levied by Irish European officials have put a stop to Israel gaining recognition... 

US Withdrawal from Iraq Raises Questions about Future of Biometric Database

From EPIC.org: President Obama’s address on the end of the combat mission in... 

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FISA Court Proposes New Court Rules FISA Court Proposes New Court Rules

Steven Aftergood writes: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has proposed new rules to comply with the provisions of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008.  The Court reviews government applications for intelligence surveillance and physical search under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The proposed FISA Court rules (pdf) provide... [Read more of this story]

Can Privacy Sell Ping? Can Privacy Sell Ping?

Riva Richmond reports: Apple moved quickly to allay potential concerns about information privacy on Wednesday when it introduced Ping, its music-focused social-networking service for the 160 million users of its iTunes service. Speaking at an event in San Francisco, Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, promised the company would include straightforward... [Read more of this story]

Facebook CEO wants private life kept out of ownership challenge Facebook CEO wants private life kept out of ownership challenge

This will tickle some readers’ irony bone. Jonathan Stempel reports: Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg says a lawsuit by a man who claims to own a huge chunk of the popular social networking website is seeking to uncover needless details about his private life. Zuckerberg is fighting a civil lawsuit filed by Paul Ceglia, an upstate New... [Read more of this story]

Lower Merion must pay $260k to student’s lawyer in webcam case Lower Merion must pay $260k to student’s lawyer in webcam case

John P. Martin reports: A federal judge Monday ordered the Lower Merion School District to pay about $260,000 now – and potentially much more later – to the lawyer who brought the lawsuit over the district’s webcam monitoring. In a 14-page opinion, Senior U.S. District Judge Jan E. DuBois said Mark S. Haltzman deserved to be paid for... [Read more of this story]

India Threatens Ban On Google, Skype India Threatens Ban On Google, Skype

Paul McDougall reports: Having given RIM a 60-day reprieve from a ban on Blackberry messaging traffic, Indian authorities have now set their sites on Google and Skype. As they did with RIM, authorities in the country are demanding access to data that flows across Google’s and Skype’s servers. “The notices to these entities will be... [Read more of this story]

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