Ryan Singel reports: The online analytics firm KISSmetrics quietly overhauled its web tracking methods over the weekend, and is now permitting users to block its surveillance, in a hurried response to a report slamming the company for using sneaky techniques to track web users who visit some of the biggest sites on the net. The 17-person Bay…
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UK: Law-abiding Northamptonshire residents have ‘Nothing to fear’ from new surveillance unit
Law-abiding residents of Northamptonshire have been assured they have nothing to fear from a new police surveillance group which has been set up by forces across the East Midlands. The Guardian newspaper yesterday reported that police forces in Northamptonshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire had set up a ‘regional surveillance unit with the power to…
Will the government get serious on cloud security, data privacy?
Derrick Harris writes: When the federal government finally does undertake the task of legislating around cloud computing, it seems very likely that security measures and data privacy will drive the ship. On Tuesday the TechAmerica Foundation’s CLOUD2 commission announced a data- and security-heavy set of recommendations to guide the federal government’s efforts in regulating, adopting and promoting…
U.S. Appeals Court: OK to check DNA of those arrested
Rich Lord reports: A closely divided 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has found that the collection of DNA samples from people arrested — but not yet convicted — of crimes is constitutional, in an opinion released today. In a precedent-setting ruling, the appeals court rejected U.S. District Judge David S. Cercone’s 2009 order finding…