David Kravets writes: Bowing to the Obama administration, a federal appeals court Monday gutted its own decision that had dramatically narrowed the government’s search-and-seizure powers in the digital age. The 9-2 ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals nullifies Miranda-style guidelines the court promulgated last year that were designed to protect Fourth Amendment…
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Is your browser being lied to? Survey says: “Maybe”
In a year when both Congress and the FTC have been making noise about regulating online advertising, you would think that the industry would be eager to show that such regulation is not needed. Yet a new study released last week by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s CyLab suggests that not only has the industry…
UK: More people recognizing the down side of surveilling students
It is encouraging to see so many people starting to challenge the extensive use of surveillance in schools. Gavin Atchison reports: Half of York’s secondary schools have been filming pupils on CCTV without telling parents, sparking condemnation from privacy campaigners. An investigation by The Press has found that while all ten secondaries in the city…
Rush to judgment: does Haystack live up to the media hype?
Evgeny Morozov has been raising awareness of the need for a careful security review of Haystack, software developed by Austin Heap that the author describes as: Haystack is not an ordinary proxy system. It employs a sophisticated mathematical formula to hide users’ real Internet traffic inside a continuous stream of innocuous-looking requests. In addition to…