CBS reports: Los Angeles is considering sending “Dear John” letters to the homes of men who solicit prostitutes hoping the mail will be opened by mothers, girlfriends or wives. Privacy advocates are slamming the idea. The plan would use automated license plate readers to generate the letters, which would be aimed at shaming “Johns,” the…
Category: Govt
Proposed Regulations for Drones Are Released
Cecilia Kang reports that the FAA has released a list recommendations related to recreational use of drones. Under the proposal, most drone owners would have to register the machines with the federal government, which would place the information in a national database, the first such requirements. […] In addition to entering the machines into a…
Carnegie Mellon Denies It Was Paid $1M by FBI to Hack Tor Anonymizing Service
Devin Coldewey reports: Carnegie Mellon University issued a statement Wednesday describing as “inaccurate” reports that it received a $1 million payment from the FBI to hack Internet anonymity service Tor. The accusation arose from the Tor Project itself; Tor obfuscates its users’ Internet traffic by passing it along a network of carefully protected computers, and last year…
The FCC’s DNT Decision: The Right Call, For Now
Here’s another perspective on last week’s statement by the FCC that they wouldn’t force giants like Google and Amazon to honor Do Not Track (DNT) requests in browsers. Jeremy Gillula writes: Everybody knows we here at EFF are big fans of Do Not Track (an HTTP header users can have their web browsers send to websites, indicating that…