Robert McMillan reports: Adobe has released an important update to its Flash Player software that fixes critical security flaws and gives users a better way of controlling whether they are being tracked on the Web. The Flash Player 10.3 update, released Thursday, lets users manage Flash cookies using their browser’s privacy settings or through a…
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FBI fights to protect ISPs that snoop on their customers
Dan Goodin reports: The FBI has finally come clean on the real reason it doesn’t want to name phone and internet service providers that participate in a sweeping surveillance program that taps international communications without a warrant: Customers would get mad and dump or sue the providers. This rare piece of honesty came in a…
AU: Location and Tracking of Individuals through their Mobile Devices
From the Australian Privacy Foundation: Means for computing the location of a computing device have matured rapidly recently, and include GPS, Wifi, and triangulation within mobile phone cells. These techniques have enabled Location-Based Services (LBS) to be created. Many LBS are proving attractive to users of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Researchers and…
EPIC Sues Federal Trade Commission for Details on Spy-Fi Investigation
From EPIC: EPIC filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Federal Trade Commission over the agency’s failure to disclose to EPIC information about the FTC’s decision to end the Google Spy-Fi investigation. EPIC is specifically seeking documents that the FTC widely circulated to members of Congress and their staff that provide the basis for the…