Bill Budington, Jeremy Gillula, and Kate Tummarello of EFF write: Within days of Congress repealing online privacy protections, Verizon has announced new plans to install software on customers’ devices to track what apps customers have downloaded. With this spyware, Verizon will be able to sell ads to you across the Internet based on things like…
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Feel like being a tad oppositional? Me, too.
So Congress passed a law allowing ISPs to sell our browsing histories and the President will sign it into law, thereby undoing some of the privacy progress that had been made under the prior administration. And then I saw this on Github, via the Infowarrior mail list: Internet Noise On March 29th congress passed a…
The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections
It’s a dark day for Internet privacy, and this is a battle we lost. It’s all over except for the President signing it. Brian Fung reports: House Republicans voted overwhelmingly Tuesday, by a margin of 215-205, to repeal a set of landmark privacy protections for Web users, issuing a sweeping rebuke of Internet policies enacted under the Obama administration. It…
MD: Frederick murder case considers whether Facebook messages are protected from search and seizure
Kelsi Loos reports: A man charged with killing a Frederick County resident in an alleged MS-13 gang hit contended that police violated his rights when they seized his Facebook account and searched his apartment. This month, Raul Ernesto Landaverde Giron joined co-defendants, other accused gang members. They asked the U.S. District Court of Maryland to…