With all the negative press social media sites receive about privacy, it’s nice to see one stand up for its users’ privacy. Overnight, Twitter has become something of a hero for fighting a sealed court order to turn over users’ account information to the Department of Justice without notifying its users to give them a…
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Woman awaits landmark ruling on sperm-donor identities
Petti Fong reports: For all of her life, Olivia Pratten has known only the barest details about her biological father. Born in 1981 after her mother visited a fertility specialist in Vancouver, she has been told only that her father is Caucasian and was a medical student at the time of donation. Genetically, all she…
Internet Freedom Alert: Obama Admin Pushing Ahead Today with Dangerous “Internet Trusted Identity” Scheme
Lauren Weinstein sounds the alert: Greetings. At this moment — as I type this — the Obama administration is pushing forward with its horrendous DHS-linked “Trusted Internet Identity” scheme (formally – “NSTIC”: “National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace”) via a meeting and announcements today at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. As I’ve discussed…
EVENT TODAY: The Stripping of Freedom: A Careful Scan of TSA Security Procedures
A panel of distinguished speakers will talk about the TSA scanning procedures at the Carnegie Institute for Science in Washington D.C. Details of the event, which starts at 9:00 am, are on EPIC.org. The event will be streamed so you can watch if you can’t attend in person. For those using social media, the event’s Twitter…