Cryptome has posted a number of compliance guides for law enforcement agents seeking customer or subscriber information from Cox, Cricket, GTE, and Yahoo!, and other providers. While some of the files may be outdated by now, the Yahoo! guide is from December 2008, and Yahoo is trying to get it removed from Cryptome’s site. Yesterday,…
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Facebook changes privacy settings
The following is part of an open letter posted by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg yesterday: Facebook’s current privacy model revolves around “networks” — communities for your school, your company or your region. This worked well when Facebook was mostly used by students, since it made sense that a student might want to share content with…
EFF sues for info about social-networking surveillance
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), working with the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Samuelson Clinic), filed suit today against a half-dozen government agencies for refusing to disclose their policies for using social networking sites for investigations, data-collection, and surveillance. Recent news reports have publicized…
8 Million Reasons for Real Surveillance Oversight
Chris Soghoian blogs: Disclaimer: The information presented here has been gathered and analyzed in my capacity as a graduate student at Indiana University. This data was gathered and analyzed on my own time, without using federal government resources. This data, and the analysis I draw from it will be a major component of my PhD…