Celeste Bott reports: State lawmakers are confronting what has become a common problem in the digital age: How to provide law enforcement with the tools to investigate online threats and cybercrimes while also making sure privacy and free speech are safeguarded. Lawmakers are considering a series of new bills aimed at giving police more power…
Category: Online
New Michigan law lets some access Facebook, email of the dead
AP reports: A new Michigan law offers ways for certain people to access the online storehouse of memories in Facebook and Google accounts after the owner dies, but the bill sponsor says it wasn’t easy to get tech companies and lawyers to agree on the rules. […] The Michigan law is based largely off of…
PogoWasRight.org files complaint with FTC concerning children’s privacy online
Earlier this week, I posed some questions to readers about tracking/monitoring your children, and the privacy of children who communicate with your child when they don’t know that you’re monitoring/seeing every private message or image. I asked you all to think about this question: So it’s okay with you if some other child’s parents are…
Seattle police raid home of privacy activists who maintain Tor anonymity network node
Mary-Ann Russon reports: Police in the US are continuing to raid the homes of people who operate exit nodes for the Tor anonymity network, most recently searching the condo belonging to a pair of outspoken privacy activists in Seattle. On 30 March, Seattle Privacy Coalition cofounders Jan Bultmann and David Robinson were woken up at…