Lois Beckett has an interesting news report on President Obama’s re-election campaign database. If you’ve contacted the campaign or used that site, you might want to read her coverage in the Tucson Sentinel. Here’s a disturbing snippet: 3. Is there any way to erase yourself from the campaign’s database? As far as we can tell,…
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Twitter and Google reject UK calls for censorship
Warwick Ashford reports: Google and Twitter have rejected calls by a UK parliamentary committee to introduce measures to stop users breaking privacy injunctions, saying it would be impossible to censor content effectively. The cross-party select committee of MPs and peers said in a report that the government should consider introducing legislation that would force Google…
Supreme court limits damages under 1974 Privacy Act to actual damages
James Vicini reports on a somewhat disappointing but unsurprising verdict by the Supreme Court: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that a pilot from San Francisco, whose status as HIV-infected was disclosed by one federal agency to another one in violation of a privacy law, cannot sue for damages for mental and emotional distress….
Occupy Tracking
A disturbing analysis and report by Tim Libert: Major advertisers and corporations have been quietly tracking the online movements of those visiting “Occupy Wall Street” related sites for months. They have have used this data to create detailed portraits of the lives and interests of potential protestors. This data is then sold in unregulated markets…