Natasha Lomas reports: A new report into U.S. consumers’ attitude to the collection of personal data has highlighted the disconnect between commercial claims that web users are happy to trade privacy in exchange for ‘benefits’ like discounts. On the contrary, it asserts that a large majority of web users are not at all happy, but rather feel powerless to stop their data…
Category: Online
You Can Be Prosecuted for Clearing Your Browser History
When Joe Cadillic sent me a link to this article, the headline sounded so far-fetched that I figured it was some wild conspiracy theory. But it turns out it’s not. Juliana DeVries reports that people are being prosecuted under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for destroying evidence – including browser history – even if they were unaware…
Political deleted-tweet archive shuttered by Twitter over “privacy expectation”
Sam Machkovech reports: The Politwoops website, which launched in 2012 to keep tabs on tweets deleted by known politicians, saw its feed dry up in the middle of May with no announcement. After Gawker reporter J.K. Trotter began investigating the story this week, he got the answer that Politwoops’ founders, the “government transparency” non-profit Sunlight Foundation, hadn’t: Twitter itself revoked the site’s…
EFF and ACLU Ask Appeals Court to Rule that Use of NSA’s Warrantless Surveillance in a Criminal Case Is Unconstitutional
Andrew Crocker writes: With the passage of the USA Freedom Act, we’ve gained important reforms of the intelligence community, but there’s still a lot to do, including reining in the NSA’s warrantless mass surveillance of Americans’ Internet communications under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act (FAA). That’s why EFF yesterday filed an amicus brief along with the…