From EFF: Our lives are on our laptops – family photos, medical documents, banking information, details about what websites we visit, and so much more. Thanks to protections enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, the government generally can’t snoop through your laptop for no reason. But those privacy protections don’t safeguard travelers at the U.S. border,…
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U.S. Holds On to Biometrics Database of 3 Million Iraqis
Spencer Ackerman reports: The troops have come home, the flag has been been lowered, and the Iraq War is officially in the past for the U.S. military. But the military is holding on to a major souvenir of the war: a massive database packed with retinal scans, thumb prints and other biometric data identifying millions…
Ireland’s Facebook audit gives it privacy green light, but with conditions
John Kennedy reports: Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner has concluded its massive audit of Facebook – the biggest investigation in the agency’s history – and has cleared it of most charges. However, Facebook has agreed to a wide range of ‘best practice’ improvements. Arising from the audit, Facebook has agreed to ‘best practice’ improvements to be implemented…
German Data Protection authorities broaden application of German Data Protection Law to foreign social networks and attack the use of social plugins and fanpages
Dr Fabian Niemann, Lennart Schüßler, and Ruth Boardman write: The Düsseldorfer Kreis (“Düsseldorf Circle”), an informal body of all German Data Protection Authorities (“DPAs”), has published a decision concerning the application of German data protection rules to social networks. The decision reflects the common view of all German DPAs and comments (i) on the (very…