DHS/CBP/PIA-058 Publicly Available Social Media Monitoring and Situational Awareness Initiative The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) takes steps to ensure the safety of its facilities and personnel from natural disasters, threats of violence, and other harmful events and activities. In support of these efforts, designated CBP personnel monitor…
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EFF Backs Redditor in Fight to Stay Anonymous
San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is representing an anonymous Reddit commenter who is facing an abusive copyright claim from the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, a group that publishes doctrines for Jehovah’s Witnesses. Today, EFF filed a motion to quash the attempt by Watchtower to unmask the online commenter. The commenter referred to as…
Man paid hacker to get nude photos from UCF student’s Snapchat account, police say
Cross-posted from DataBreaches.net because this is an important online privacy issue that parents and young people need to become more savvy about. I missed this one when it first appeared, but it’s worth posting so that parents can once again remind their kids about online safety. Read the full news story on this one as…
The paranoid person’s guide to online privacy
Michael Grothaus writes: This story is part of The Privacy Divide, a series that explores the fault lines and disparities–economic, cultural, philosophical–that have developed around digital privacy and its impact on society. Increasingly, the most important issue for everyday internet users is privacy—and rightly so. In today’s connected world, we’re being tracked and surveilled more…