Wicked Local reports: The Massachusetts Senate passed a variety of pieces of legislation covering veterans, public education and social media privacy. […] S.2034: An Act Relative to Social Media Privacy Protection, prohibits any public or private institution providing elementary, secondary or higher education from requiring a student or applicant to disclose a username, password or…
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Carnegie Mellon Denies It Was Paid $1M by FBI to Hack Tor Anonymizing Service
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…
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…