Grace Dobush writes: …. With the advent of global surveillance, “Our world is becoming better behaved, but perhaps less human,” said Tijmen Schep, creative director of the Dutch arts collective SETUP, which for the past two years has worked on building a national database of Dutch citizens based solely on open source data. The initial point of the project –…
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House unanimously passes email privacy bill
Mario Trujillo reports: The House on Wednesday unanimously passed an email privacy bill that the technology industry and advocates pushed for years. The Email Privacy Act had the most public backers of any bill in Congress and it passed 419-0. Attention now turns to the Senate. The bill closes off a loophole in the 1986 Electronic Communications…
Michigan state police using online surveillance to track talk on Flint water crisis
Gary Ridley reports: State police officials are using online surveillance to monitor social media comments made about the Flint water crisis, according to emails released by Gov. Rick Snyder’s office. The emails show that officials attempted on at least one occasion to initiate criminal proceedings against a Copper City man over allegedly threatening comments he…
Ad-blocker blocking websites face legal peril at hands of privacy bods
Iain Thomson reports: Websites that detect ad-blockers to stop their users from reading webpages could be illegal under European law. Alexander Hanff, a privacy campaigner and programmer, says he has received a letter from the European Commission confirming that browser-side web scripts that pick out advert blockers access people’s personal data (ie: the plugin stored…