Orin Kerr has a compelling op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about proposed amendments to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) that begins: Imagine that President Obama could order the arrest of anyone who broke a promise on the Internet. So you could be jailed for lying about your age or weight on an…
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Deutsche Telekom Wants ‘German Cloud’ to Shield Data From U.S.
Deutsche Telekom AG’s T-Systems information technology unit is pushing regulators to introduce a certificate for German or European cloud operators to help companies guard data from the U.S. government. T-Systems plans to lure customers by emphasizing the security of its servers, over which it delivers its Internet- accessed computing services, Reinhard Clemens, the division’s chief…
Your face — and the Web — can tell everything about you
Bob Sullivan has an absolutely chilling article on Red Tape that I wish were SciFi but isn’t: Imagine being able to sit down in a bar, snap a few photos of people and quickly learn who they are, who their friends are, where they live, what kind of music they like … even predict their…
They’re watching at the Mall of America
On the 10th anniversary of 9/11, it’s worth noting how much we’ve lost – not just measured in the human lives and families forever affected – but also in terms of our privacy and civil liberties. G.W. Schulz, Daniel Zwerdling, and Andrew Becker report: On May 1, 2008, at 4:59 p.m., Brad Kleinerman entered the…