Megan DeMarco reports on a case that has been closely watched here: Former Rutgers University student Dharun Ravi was found guilty today on most counts in connection with using a webcam to spy on his roommate’s liaison with another man, in a high profile case that sparked awareness of cyber-bullying and harassment of gay teenagers….
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Senators Demand DOJ Release Secret Spy Court Rulings (updated)
Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall are not giving up in their efforts to inform the public about what has been called a “secret interpretation” of Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act. David Kravets reports: Two Democratic senators urged the Obama administration Thursday to declassify secret court rulings that give the government far wider domestic…
Hacktivists <3 Data Brokers
Privacy advocates have often complained about data brokers and how information is too readily available without our consent or even the right to opt-out. Now it’s becoming increasingly clear that our headache may be a hacktivist’s wet dream. One of the popular tactics of hacktivists is to “d0x” public or private figures whose conduct they…
The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)
James Bamford writes: Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the…