The FTC’s report (pdf), Internet of Things: Privacy & Security in a Connected World, summarizes the workshop it held on November 19, 2013 and provides staff’s recommendations in this area. Of note, also read the Separate Statement of Commissioner Maureen K. Ohlhausen (pdf) and the Dissenting Statement of Commissioner Joshua D. Wright (pdf). Not for the first time, Commissioner Wright appears to…
Category: Govt
Dish ‘Do Not Call’ flubs: Dish Network call you up? You and 57 million others
Linsey Bald reports: Dish Network violated the federal “Do Not Call” registry with an overwhelming mass of telemarketing outcalls – the satellite TV provider was found guilty of making over 57 million unsolicited calls to phone numbers that were registered with the Federal Trade Commission’s Telemarketing Sales Rule, known as the Do Not Call list. The…
How the CIA made Google and Why Google made the NSA
Nafeez Ahmed writes: INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a new crowd-funded investigative journalism project, breaks the exclusive story of how the United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as part of a drive to dominate the world through control of information. Seed-funded by the NSA and CIA, Google was merely the first among a plethora of…
DOJ to pay $134K over fake Facebook profile
David McCabe reports: The Justice Department will pay $134,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a woman who was impersonated online by a Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) officer without her knowledge. The settlement was revealed in a court filing made available on Tuesday. It was first reported by the Associated Press. The woman, Sondra Arquiett,…