William Dotinga reports that U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh seemed unwilling to toss out In re Google, Inc. – Gmail Litigation when Google sought dismissal of the case on Thursday: Google defended its various privacy polices and terms of service going back as far as 2007, which all warn users that information the company gets from the…
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Domestic Drone Regulation for Safety and Privacy
Ken Anderson writes: Today’s (Sunday, Sep 8, 2013) New York Times has a story by Anne Eisenberg, “Preflight Turbulence for Commercial Drones.” […] However, as the article discusses, the same technologies which make drones so useful for mapping and surveying make them useful for surveillance of people, whether by government agencies or, for that matter, private…
Google encrypts data amid backlash against NSA spying
Craig Timberg reports: Google is racing to encrypt the torrents of information that flow among its data centers around the world in a bid to thwart snooping by the NSA and the intelligence agencies of foreign governments, company officials said Friday. The move by Google is among the most concrete signs yet that recent revelations…
Yahoo’s first transparency report
Yahoo has issued its first transparency report. It covers the period January 1, 2013 through June 30, 2013. In its overview to the report, Yahoo’s counsel Ron Bell notes that requests for user data impact “comprised less than one one-hundredth of one percent (<.01%) of our worldwide user base.” Zach Miners of Computerworld recaps the report, but…