Because I haven’t really blogged about Cablegate, let me make a few points — knowing that I will almost certainly irritate the hell out of some people I truly respect by the time I’m done: WikiLeaks Didn’t Steal the Documents I find it somewhat mind-boggling how many governmental and non-governmental folks seem to equate the…
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Some Data-Miners Ready to Reveal What They Know
Emily Steel reports: Seeking to head off escalating scrutiny over Internet privacy, a group of online tracking rivals is building a service that lets consumers see what information those companies know about them. The project is the first of its kind in the fast-growing business of tracking Internet users and selling personal details about their…
Location matters up in the cloud – but so does integrity and politics
Michael Geist writes: … After Amazon pulled the plug, Wikileaks quickly shifted to a European host, demonstrating how easily sites can shift from one cloud provider to another. Although it seems counter-intuitive to consider the physical location of cloud computing equipment when discussing services that by their very definition operate across borders in the “cloud”,…
DOJ’s “hotwatch” real-time surveillance of credit card transactions
Chris Soghoian writes: A 10 page Powerpoint presentation (pdf) that I recently obtained through a Freedom of Information Act Request to the Department of Justice, reveals that law enforcement agencies routinely seek and obtain real-time surveillance of credit card transaction. The government’s guidelines reveal that this surveillance often occurs with a simple subpoena, thus sidestepping any…