Jay Stanley of the ACLU has a commentary in the UK’s Guardian: The FBI recently announced that its Next Generation Identification System (NGIS) has “reached its initial operating capacity”. This vast new biometrics project, for which Lockheed Martin won a $1bn contract in 2008, encompasses not only fingerprints but also, possibly, such biometrics as iris…
Month: March 2011
Samsung keylogger finding a false-positive? (updated)
As a quick update to news stories yesterday reporting that keylogger software had been detected in new Samsung laptops: Ben Grubb of The Age reports: Late this afternoon, Samsung Australia said the allegations were “not true”. “Our findings indicate that the person mentioned in the article used a security program called VIPRE [antivirus software] that mistook…
Reader Privacy Act Introduced to Upgrade Book Privacy for the Digital Era
From EFF: California Senator Leland Yee has introduced the Reader Privacy Act of 2011 (SB 602), with backing from the California Affiliates of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The law would bring a much-needed upgrade to match Californians’ reading habits. Under SB 602 the government and other third…
AdChoices? Compliance with Online Behavioral Advertising Notice and Choice Requirements
A new research report from CMU’s CyLab: Online behavioral advertisers track users across websites, often without users’ knowledge. Over the last twelve years, the online behavioral advertising industry has responded to the resulting privacy concerns and pressure from the FTC by creating private self-regulatory bodies. These include the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) and an umbrella…