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…
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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…
SJWs Build New Database to Shame People For “Insulting” Online Comments
Paul Joseph Watson writes: A group of social justice warriors are preparing to launch a new database that will encourage users to submit the real identities of people who make “insulting comments” online, making it easier for leftists to launch witch hunts against people who cause “offense”. Read more on Information Liberation. I realize that…