Alyssa Newcomb reports: Samples of DNA were collected without parental consent from students at a Sacramento, Calif., middle school in connection with the murder of an 8 th grade student who was found stabbed, strangled and beaten to death near the dugout of a local park. The Sacramento Sheriff’s Department, which has been spearheading the…
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When the cops subpoena your Facebook information, here’s what Facebook sends the cops
Carly Carioli writes: …. One of the most fascinating documents we came across was the BPD’s subpoena of Philip Markoff’s Facebook information. It’s interesting for a number of reasons — for one thing, Facebook has been pretty tight-lipped about the subpoena process, even refusing to acknowledge how many subpoenas they’ve served. Social-networking data is a contested…
Japanese gov’t ran background checks on civil servants without permission
Everywhere you go, there’s the risk of unchecked government surveillance. From The Mainichi: National civil servants handling secret information have been subjected to background checks without their permission and with no legal foundation for at least the past three years, it has been discovered. More than 53,000 civil servants in almost every central government ministry…
Privacy concerns after Instagram’s acquisition by Facebook
Graham Cluley writes: It’s the big tech headline of the week: Facebook has announced it is buying the popular photo-sharing app Instagram for a cool billion dollars. But should Instagram’s 30 million users – who are reportedly uploading five million new photos to the service each day – have worries about the acquisition? Read more…