Tim Cushing writes: Amazon isn’t just handing out cheap/free doorbell surveillance cameras to cops. It’s tying them into contracts that require government agency recipients return the favor by publicizing Amazon’s Ring doorbells and running their PR responses through the online retailer. That’s according to documents obtained by Caroline Haskins of Vice, who secured copies of…
Category: Govt
The Trump administration wants to be able to break into your encrypted data. Here’s what you need to know.
Tim Maurer and Garrett Hinck write: In a speech last week, Attorney-General William Barr began again to push for a law that would oblige U.S. businesses to decrypt people’s data if the government told them to. This is far from the first time that U.S. law enforcement officials have demanded such a law. What’s different…
Facebook’s Libra Could Aid Law Enforcement
Paul Vigna reports: Lawmakers were up in arms this month about whether Libra, Facebook Inc.’s proposed new cryptocurrency, would be a haven for money launderers and other criminal activities. Facebook, though, says Libra could be a valuable tool for law enforcement, partly because of the vast amounts of information that will be generated about its…
EPIC Challenges FTC-Facebook Settlement, Asks Court to Hear from Privacy Groups
From EPIC.org: EPIC has filed a Motion to Intervene in United States v. Facebook to protect the interests of Facebook users. The case concerns a proposed settlement between the FTC and Facebook. EPIC said the settlement “is not adequate, reasonable, or appropriate.” EPIC also explained that the settlement would extinguish more than 26,000 consumer complaints…