Dan Goodin reports: A federal judge has declined to dismiss a lawsuit filed against social-media application developer RockYou for exposing the personally identifiable information of 32 million of its users, which the site stored unencrypted when it suffered a major security breach 16 months ago. Judge Phyllis Hamilton of the US District Court in the…
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Government publishes cookie law plans and says browser settings cannot give consent
Browser settings alone cannot be used by web users to give consent to their behaviour being tracked under a new EU law, the UK Government has said. The Government said that it will implement the EU law by a 25 May deadline. The Government has confirmed it will go ahead with a previously-announced plan to…
Yahoo! announces it will screw users and hopes they find it enjoyable
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…
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…