EFF has gotten involved in a case that has been covered previously on this site. Their press release: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Media Freedom and Information Access Practicum (MFIA) at Yale Law School filed a friend-of-the-court brief today urging the Illinois Court of Appeals to block the unmasking of an anonymous online…
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Google ‘99% certain’ to shut China engine
Richard Waters in San Francisco and Kathrin Hille in Beijing report: Google has drawn up detailed plans for the closure of its Chinese search engine and is now “99.9 per cent” certain to go ahead as talks over censorship with the Chinese authorities have reached an apparent impasse, according to a person familiar with the…
The Biometric Center of Excellence
From the FBI: You’re seen it before in spy movies—someone gains access to a secret room through a thumbprint or eye scan. It’s not just fiction anymore. Systems like this now exist in both the private and public sectors. They’re based on what’s called “biometrics”—measurable behavioral and biological (anatomical as well as physiological) characteristics that…
Privacy’s Trajectory
Tanya Forsheit writes: As many of our readers know, the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) will celebrate 10 years this Tuesday, March 16. In connection with that anniversary, the IAPP is releasing a whitepaper, “A Call For Agility: The Next-Generation Privacy Professional,” tomorrow, March 15. Monday morning you can find the whitepaper here. I am…