Declan McCullagh reports: The nation’s largest wireless providers oppose a proposed California location privacy law that would require police to obtain search warrants to track a wireless customer’s whereabouts, CNET has learned. […] S.B. 1434 would also require wireless providers to divulge “the number of times location information has been disclosed,” and how many times…
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An Open Letter From Security Experts, Academics and Engineers to the U.S. Congress: Stop Bad Cybersecurity Bills
Via Dan Auerbach at EFF, this open letter to Congress: Dear Lawmakers, We are writing you today as professionals, academics, and policy experts who have researched, analyzed, and defended against security threats to the Internet and its infrastructure. We have devoted our careers to building security technologies, and to protecting networks, computers, and critical infrastructure…
From self-monitoring to auto-monitoring in just four quick decades
The CNET story by Liane Yvkoff on how your car will monitor your mood got some notice on Twitter. Some people raised the creepiness factor, and some raised concerns that the data would be turned over to insurance companies via “black box” recordings and then used against us in the event of an accident. Some of us…
Fitchburg State student suspended after tapes of nude roommate surface
George Barnes reports: A Fitchburg State University student has been suspended from school and is facing charges for secretly video recording his roommate in the nude. James Lucas, 23, of 288 Littleton Road, Chelmsford, was arraigned Thursday in Fitchburg District Court on charges of photographing an unsuspecting nude person and unlawful wiretapping. He was released…