Jennifer Lynch of EFF writes: EFF just received documents in response to a 2-year old FOIA request for information on the FBI’s “Going Dark” program, an initiative to increase the FBI’s authority in response to problems the FBI says it’s having implementing wiretap and pen register/trap and trace orders on new communications technologies. The documents…
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FBI to Announce New Internet-Wiretapping Push
Yesterday, I noted that there is a hearing in the House of Representatives this morning on surveillance. Declan McCullagh reports: The FBI is expected to reveal Thursday that because of the rise of Web-based e-mail and social networks, it’s “increasingly unable” to conduct certain types of surveillance that would be possible on cellular and traditional…
Court stays order to turn over juror’s Facebook postings
Rachel Costello reports that the California Supreme Court has granted a stay of Judge Kenny’s order to Arturo Ramirez (“Juror Number One”) to sign consent for Facebook to provide his postings to the court. A Sacramento trial court had upheld Judge Kenny’s order and Ramirez’s attorney had filed for both a review of the decision…
Facebook Data of 1.2 Million Users from 2005 Released: Limited Exposure, but Very Problematic
Michael Zimmer writes: Last week, a Facebook dataset was released by a group of researchers (Amanda L. Traud, Peter J. Mucha, Mason A. Porter) in connection with their paper studying the role of user attributes – gender, class year, major, high school, and residence – on social network formations at various colleges and universities. The dataset —…