I am no longer shocked that others are shocked when they first learn that their state has been selling their personal information. In today’s installment of “I didn’t know THAT,” Bridget Clerkin reports: The vast amount of knowledge that can be gleaned from our computers may have led experts to nickname this time in history…
Category: Govt
Microsoft to drop lawsuit after U.S. government revises data request rules
This is big news. Respect to Microsoft for fighting this battle for their customers. Reuters reports: Microsoft Corp said it will drop a lawsuit against the U.S. government after the Department of Justice (DOJ) changed data request rules on alerting internet users about agencies accessing their information. The new policy limits the use of secrecy…
Just because you CAN, it doesn’t mean you SHOULD…
How many posts have I posted by now about government over-reach on surveillance and the need to vigorously defend our right to privacy? A lot, right? And I realize that I am really only pseudoanonymous, but I think I’ve made it perfectly clear to most parties that I do not cheerfully tolerate people invading my…
Government Drops Its Demand For Data On 6,000 Facebook Users
Tim Cushing reports: It’s amazing what effect a little public scrutiny has on government overreach. In the wake of inauguration day protests, the DOJ started fishing for information from internet service providers. First, it wanted info on all 1.2 million visitors of a protest website hosted by DreamHost. After a few months of bad publicity…