Jay Stanley of the ACLU writes: Today the ACLU won a significant victory in our battle to ensure that cell phones don’t become Big Brother tracking devices. Following a four-year fight, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to comply with our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)…
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Poll: OK to trade some freedoms to fight terrorism
Associated Press reports: Surveillance cameras in public places? Sure. Body scans at airports? Maybe. Snooping in personal email? Not so fast. The same Americans who are increasingly splashing their personal lives across Facebook and Twitter trace a meandering path when asked where the government should draw the line between protecting civil liberties and pursuing terrorism….
Iranians’ email targeted by breach involving hacked security certificates
Up to 300,000 Iranians may have had their Google email monitored using security certificates stolen from Dutch firm DigiNotar. The figure came from a report into the breach at DigiNotar which let attackers generate hundreds of fake certificates. The report suggests the certificates were used in Iran to eavesdrop on email accounts. The list has…
Online anonymity or pseudoanonymity is a threat – but only to businesses’ marketing plans
Two articles about online anonymity that you may wish to read: Efic Pfanner’s piece, “Naming Names on the Internet,” in the New York Times and Ben Grubb’s piece, “Death of anonymity online has net users fuming,” in The Age. As both articles suggest, there is a strong sense in some circles that arguments about accountability are…