Steve Henn reports: Writing a post about Facebook changing its privacy policies can feel like a fool’s errand. Nearly everyone who has a pulse — and lives part of his life online — most likely knows how Facebook makes its money and understands why this service, which connects 1.1 billion people, is free. But here…
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Twitter General Counsel Leaves as Company Prepares to Go Public
Somini Sengupta reports: Alex MacGillivray, Twitter’s chief lawyer and the Internet industry’s most prominent champion of free speech rights, announced on Friday that he would step down from his post, as the company expands its global footprint and prepares for a widely anticipated public offering sometime next year. The company announced the appointment of a…
DOJ Still Refuses To Let Tech Companies Reveal How Much Info They Get Via FISA Orders
Mike Masnick writes: So, last night Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said that the administration will start releasing some data on how many FISA records it seeks, and how many “targets” there are. In a first draft of that post, I had originally speculated that this hopefully meant the various tech companies could finally add FISA request…
How A Scammy Male Enhancement Company Set An Important Precedent For Online Privacy
The Business Insider has an excerpt from Nate Anderson’s new book, “The Internet Police: How Crime Went Online, and the Cops Followed by Nate Anderson.” The excerpt deals with an important case in online privacy law – the case of Steven Warshak. Read the excerpt on BusinessInsider.