Data Privacy Day is tomorrow. Wouldn’t it be a good activity to take part in an experiment on how your online patterns can identify you? Peter Eckersley explains: What fingerprints does your browser leave behind as you surf the web? Traditionally, people assume they can prevent a website from identifying them by disabling cookies on…
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Judge Tosses NSA Spy Cases
David Kravets has more on Judge Walker’s decision in two cases involving domestic surveillance: A federal judge is dismissing lawsuits accusing the government of teaming with the nation’s telcos to funnel Americans’ electronic communications to the National Security Agency without warrants. U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision was a major blow to the two suits…
Obama continues morphing into Bush
Marisa Taylor of McClatchy Newspapers has an article on how Obama’s administration is following in the same secretive and civil liberties-busting footsteps of the Bush administration: Although the FBI has acknowledged it improperly obtained thousands of Americans’ phone records for years, the Obama administration continues to assert that the bureau can obtain them without any…
UK: CCTV in the sky: police plan to use military-style spy drones
Paul Lewis reports: Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the ”routine” monitoring of antisocial motorists, protesters, agricultural thieves and fly-tippers, in a significant expansion of covert state surveillance. The arms manufacturer BAE Systems, which produces a range of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for war zones,…