Now what did Candidate Obama pledge about transparency? Adam Klasfeld reports: The FBI can shield its terrorism-investigation data from the prying eyes of New York Times investigative journalist Charlie Savage, a federal judge ruled. Savage repeatedly sought FBI data through the Freedom of Information Act for a series of articles exposing how federal authorities vigorously…
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Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Software Developer Settles FTC Charges
Frostwire LLC, a peer-to-peer file-sharing application developer, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its software likely would cause consumers to unwittingly expose sensitive personal files stored on their mobile devices, and that it misled consumers about which downloaded files from their desktop and laptop computers would be shared with a file-sharing network….
Justice Department ramps up WikiLeaks e-mail probe
Declan McCullagh reports: The U.S. Department of Justice has expanded its investigation of WikiLeaks-related accounts to encompass Google and Internet provider Sonic.net. Both companies received secret court orders directing them to turn over information from the e-mail account of Jacob Appelbaum, a hacker and human rights activist who has been affiliated with WikiLeaks, the Wall…
Government Email Delivery Tracks Recipients
Seen on Cryptome.org: DoJ and DHS — which should know better but may pretend innocence — use govdelivery.com, probably others. We have complained to the service before without response. To see the tracking code look at the HTML code underlying the links. Clicking a link will produce a 404. This was discovered by use of…