Chris Soghoian called attention to this new blog entry on Yahoo! Policy Blog by Anne Toth, their “Chief Trust Officer.” After this notice, I wouldn’t trust them as far as I could throw ’em: Today, Yahoo! is making an announcement of our intention to change our log file data retention policy to meet the needs…
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The Law Enforcement Surveillance Reporting Gap
Christopher Soghoian’s article, “The Law Enforcement Surveillance Reporting Gap,” is available on SSRN. Here’s the Abstract: Third party facilitated surveillance has become a routine tool for law enforcement agencies. There are likely hundreds of thousands of such requests per year. Unfortunately there are few detailed statistics documenting the use of many modern surveillance methods. As…
FL Sup. Ct: Dog sniff of home violates Fourth Amendment
So no sooner than I post a link to an article of how courts have expanded dog sniffs (drugs) to the home, than John Wesley Hall of FourthAmendment.com points me to a decision overturning some previous rulings: The Florida Supreme Court held today that a dog sniff in the home violates the Fourth Amendment. The…
Researcher uncovers serious privacy and security concerns with Dropbox (updated)
Last week, I read some commentary about Dropbox by Derek Newton that left me thinking that what he was raising as a security issue was not necessarily a huge deal. So today, when I saw more references to Dropbox, I thought it was just continued discussion of his commentary. Thankfully, Chris Soghoian tweeted, “How Dropbox…