Elinor Mills has a story on cnet that suggests that once again, when it’s not convenient for our government, the Fourth Amendment becomes merely advisory: A security researcher involved with the Wikileaks Web site was detained by U.S. agents at the border for three hours and questioned about the controversial whistleblower project as he entered…
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Sites Feed Personal Details To New Tracking Industry
Julia Angwin and Tom McGinty have a must-read story in the Wall Street Journal: The largest U.S. websites are installing new and intrusive consumer-tracking technologies on the computers of people visiting their sites—in some cases, more than 100 tracking tools at a time—a Wall Street Journal investigation has found. […] n an effort to quantify…
Breaking a Promise on Surveillance
From a New York Times editorial: It is just a technical matter, the Obama administration says: We just need to make a slight change in a law to make clear that we have the right to see the names of anyone’s e-mail correspondents and their Web browsing history without the messy complication of asking a…
Ca: Tax collector may have used confidential files for business leads
Chad Skelton reports: A tax collector in B.C. used the Canada Revenue Agency’s computers to look up the private tax files of hundreds of high-income individuals, apparently in the hopes of hitting them up for a business she ran on the side, according to internal government documents. The CRA’s internal investigation report, obtained by the…