Rob Price reports: Facebook harvested the email contacts of 1.5 million users without their knowledge or consent when they opened their accounts. Since May 2016, the social-networking company has collected the contact lists of 1.5 million users new to the social network, Business Insider can reveal. The Silicon Valley company [Read More…]
Mike Faher reports: On the surface, the question is relatively simple: How should Vermonters decide whether their medical records are visible to practitioners in a statewide database? But that question has spurred an ongoing debate that’s made its way to the Statehouse. Advocates say the state needs to switch from [Read More…]
Wabash, IN—At 10 a.m. on Thursday, April 18, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will argue to the Indiana Supreme Court that police cannot force a criminal suspect to turn over a passcode or otherwise decrypt her cell phone. The case is Katelin Seo v. State of Indiana. The Fifth Amendment [Read More…]
Joe Cadillic writes: For years, law enforcement has been claiming that drones will only be used for natural disasters, crime scene investigations, car accidents and rescue operations. That is the bill of goods, being sold to the public but it is all a lie. A perfect example of how law [Read More…]