Amber Sutherland and Bruce Golding report: Many of the city’s major clothing stores tried to defuse the “shop and frisk” scandal on Monday by agreeing to an anti-profiling policy demanded by civil-rights activists led by the Rev. Al Sharpton. Barneys, Macy’s, Bergdorf Goodman, Saks Fifth Avenue, Lord & Taylor and the Gap are among the…
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NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking
Ashkan Soltani, Andrea Peterson, and Barton Gellman report: The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers, using “cookies” and location data to pinpoint targets for government hacking and to bolster surveillance. The agency’s internal presentation slides, provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, show that when companies…
Apple, Google, Microsoft and more demand sweeping changes to US surveillance laws
Dan Roberts and Jemima Kiss report: The world’s leading technology companies have united to demand sweeping changes to US surveillance laws, urging an international ban on bulk collection of data to help preserve the public’s “trust in the internet”. In their most concerted response yet to disclosures by the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden,…
LinkedIn Seeks Dismissal of Users’ Lawsuit Over E-Mail Hacking
Linda Sandler reports: LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD:US), which runs a 259 million-member network for professionals, asked a federal judge in California to dismiss a lawsuit accusing it of hacking into users’ address books to lure people to the site. The suit is “meritless” because members consented to terms allowing LinkedIn to send invitations to their contacts,…