Aoife White of the Associated Press reports: The European Parliament on Thursday strongly rejected a deal that would have allowed U.S. authorities access to European bank transfers, allegedly to track funds supporting terror groups. EU lawmakers in Strasbourg, France voted 378-196 against the deal with 31 abstentions. The parliament’s president, Jerzy Buzek, said the assembly…
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WARNING: Google Buzz Has A Huge Privacy Flaw
Nicholas Carlson writes: There is a huge privacy flaw in Google’s new Twitter/Facebook competitor, Google Buzz. When you first go into Google Buzz, it automatically sets you up with followers and people to follow. A Google spokesperson tells us these people are chosen based on whom the users emails and chats with most using Gmail….
Facebook Hit With More Privacy Lawsuits In The Wake Of Changing Users’ Settings
Wendy Davis writes: Facebook has been hit with two new potential class-action lawsuits stemming from recent revisions to its privacy settings. The cases, filed in federal district court in San Jose, Calif. on behalf of nine Facebook users, allege that the new settings decreased users’ privacy and “resulted in wider access to personal information that…
Appeals Court Backs EFF Push for Telecom Lobbying Documents Disclosure
The Electronic Frontier Foundation provides this press release following yesterday’s ruling by the Ninth Circuit: Today a federal appeals court rejected a government claim of “lobbyist privacy” to hide the identities of individuals who pressured Congress to grant immunity to telecommunications companies that participated in the government’s warrantless electronic surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans….