Jennifer Lynch writes: This week, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and several other organizations released documentsfrom a FOIA lawsuit that expose the concerted efforts of the FBI and DHS to build a massive database of personal and biometric information. This database, called “Next Generation Identification” (NGI), has been in the works for several years now. However, the documents CCR posted show…
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Tracking the Trackers: Early Results
Jonathan Mayer writes: Over the past several months researchers at the Stanford Security Labhave been developing a platform for measuring dynamic web content. One of our chief applications is a system for automated enforcement of Do Not Track by detecting the myriad forms of third-party tracking, includingcookies, HTML5 storage, fingerprinting, and much more. While the software isn’t quite polished enough…
Unhappy meal: Data retention bill could lure sex predators into McDonalds, libraries
Chris Soghoian writes: On Tuesday, the Republican-controlled House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing in support of mandatory data retention legislation. The bill that they have proposed requires that Internet Service Providers, such as Comcast and Time Warner, save records of the IP addresses they assign to their customers for a period of 18 months. Data retention…
Judge rules use of GPS to track a cheating spouse is not an invasion of privacy
MaryAnn Spoto reports: Beware, all you cheating husbands and wives. The use of a GPS device to track your whereabouts is not an invasion of privacy in New Jersey, a state appellate court panel ruled today. Based on the battle of a divorcing Gloucester County couple, the decision helps clarify the rules governing a technology…