Devin Coldewey reports: Carnegie Mellon University issued a statement Wednesday describing as “inaccurate” reports that it received a $1 million payment from the FBI to hack Internet anonymity service Tor. The accusation arose from the Tor Project itself; Tor obfuscates its users’ Internet traffic by passing it along a network of carefully protected computers, and last year…
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The FCC’s DNT Decision: The Right Call, For Now
Here’s another perspective on last week’s statement by the FCC that they wouldn’t force giants like Google and Amazon to honor Do Not Track (DNT) requests in browsers. Jeremy Gillula writes: Everybody knows we here at EFF are big fans of Do Not Track (an HTTP header users can have their web browsers send to websites, indicating that…
Third Circuit Dings Google for Sneaky Cookies
I had held off on posting this in the hopes that Orin Kerr would be writing some commentary on the ruling, but I may as well post this now and update at some future point. Andrew Thompson reports: The Third Circuit ruled that Google may have violated California privacy law by tricking users’ computers into allowing blocked…
Court Docs Show University Helped FBI Bust Silk Road 2, Child Porn Suspects
Joseph Cox reports: An academic institution has been providing information to the FBI that led to the identification of criminal suspects on the dark web, according to court documents reviewed by Motherboard. Those suspects include a staff member of the non-defunct Silk Road 2.0 drug marketplace, and a man charged with possession of child pornography….