Andy Greenberg and Ryan Mac profile Alex Karp of Palantir, and delve into the privacy implications of the firm’s work. It’s an interesting read on Forbes.
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In Privacy Cases, Google Defends Email Snooping
Julia Love reports: As lawyers for Google Inc. fought to dismiss a spate of privacy claims, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh pressed them to explain how scanning messages sent through Gmail to target advertisements falls under the company’s “ordinary course of business” as an email provider. Google lawyers urged Koh on Thursday to dispense with…
WikiLeaks releases documents on global surveillance industry
Philip Dorling reports: WikiLeaks has stepped up its campaign to expose the global surveillance industry with the release of a new collection of sensitive documents from private intelligence and information technology companies. The transparency group has published 294 documents from 92 contractor firms providing surveillance and intelligence technology to governments around the world. WikiLeaks publisher…
Privacy Groups Ask F.T.C. to Block Facebook Policy Changes
Vindu Goel reports: A coalition of six major consumer privacy groups has asked the Federal Trade Commission to block coming changes to Facebook’s privacy policies that they say would make it easier for the social network to use personal data about its users, including children under 18, in advertising on the site. In a letter sent…