Nancy Gohring reports: A leading privacy researcher is urging companies to say no to government requests for data, arguing that it’s good for business. “Or rather, saying yes can be really bad for business,” said Chris Soghoian, an Indiana University PhD candidate and security and privacy researcher. Speaking on Monday at a Law Seminars International…
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Would You Buy a Used Car Identity Theft Protection Service from This Man?
Ray Sterns of Phoenix New Times has really been digging into LifeLock’s assurances that their service will protect you from ID theft. Back in 2007, the paper had exposed that the company’s co-founder, Robert J. Maynard Jr., had a somewhat less than stellar past and the company’s claims that he had been an ID theft…
Civil liberties groups file suit against Arizona’s new immigration law
Jamie Ross of Courthouse News reports on the anticipated challenge to Arizona’s new “papers, please” law: Arizona’s controversial immigration law “will cause widespread racial profiling and will subject many persons of color … to unlawful interrogations, searches, seizures and arrests,” according to a federal class action filed by the ACLU, the NAACP and other national…
Web Browsers Leave ‘Fingerprints’ Behind as You Surf the Net
From a new press release from EFF: New research by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has found that an overwhelming majority of web browsers have unique signatures — creating identifiable “fingerprints” that could be used to track you as you surf the Internet. The findings were the result of an experiment EFF conducted with volunteers…