Dan Goodin reports: Features in the four major browsers designed to cloak users’ browser history often don’t work as billed, according to a research paper that warns that users may get a false sense of security when using the built-in privacy settings. The private-browsing modes are supposed to allow users to visit a website without…
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Lawmakers Question Data Collection At Major Sites
Grant Gross reports: Two senior U.S. lawmakers say they’re “troubled” by the collection of personal data at many websites, and they want details on how much data 15 popular sites collect and what the sites do with the data. Representatives Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, and Joe Barton, a Texas Republican, sent a letter Thursday…
Blumenthal Finds Improper Use Of Bysiewicz Office Database; Probe Concludes With Report, Referral To Chief Prosecutor
Jon Lender reports: State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said Thursday that the office of Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz maintained “inappropriate” personal and political information in a taxpayer-funded office database – creating “the reasonable perception that the state database was developed as a useful tool for political campaign purposes.” Blumenthal made those findings in…
Cellphone Stalking
Using technology for stalking was back in the news this week. Earlier this week, I posted a link to an article about how Google Street View can be used to facilitate stalking when combined with a web site exploit that extracts the victim’s MAC address. Dan Solove also discusses stalking over on Concurring Opinions. He…