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FTC Names Latanya Sweeney as Chief Technologist; Andrea Matwyshyn as Policy Advisor

Posted on November 18, 2013July 1, 2025 by Dissent

From the FTC: Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez announced the appointments of Latanya Sweeney as the agency’s Chief Technologist and Andrea Matwyshyn as a Senior Policy Advisor on privacy and data security issues. Dr. Sweeney is a professor of government and technology at Harvard University and the founder and director of Harvard’s data privacy…

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Staking out Twitter and Facebook, LexisNexis service lets police poke perps

Posted on November 16, 2013July 1, 2025 by Dissent

Sean Gallagher reports: Local law enforcement is getting the kind of technological boost that used to be limited to three-letter agencies, thanks to Web-based software services that mine social media for intelligence. At last month’s International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) conference in Philadelphia, LexisNexis showed off a new tool it will bundle with…

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Conspiracy? Saturday edition

Posted on November 16, 2013July 1, 2025 by Dissent

I’ve never viewed myself as a conspiracy nut (then again, how many conspiracy nuts have that level of self-awareness?), but I may have just joined the ranks. Jeremy Hammond, a member of Anonymous/LulzSec, was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in prison for hacking Stratfor and other entities.  Part of his defense was that former member…

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Victory: Government to Release More NSA Documents and FISA Court Opinions in Response to EFF Lawsuit

Posted on November 16, 2013July 1, 2025 by Dissent

Mark Rumold writes: On Monday, the US Department of Justice will release to the public hundreds of additional pages of government documents concerning its use of Section 215 of the Patriot Act, the provision of law the NSA relies on to collect the call records of millions of Americans. The disclosures will follow closely on the heels…

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