The Brattleboro Reformer posted this editorial that appeared in The Kennebec Journal of Augusta (Maine) on Aug. 28: If the federal government can’t get states to sign on to the Real ID law, it has only itself to blame. All the darkest nightmares of privacy advocates who warned in the early 2000s of an Orwellian state in which…
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Code Club founder quits in Google privacy row
Nick Morrison reports: One of the founders of an after-school club that paved the way for the introduction of coding to the national curriculum has quit in a row over student privacy. Code Club was set up in 2012 to teach programming skills to primary pupils and its volunteers now work in more than 2,000…
Cosplayers Fight for Online Anonymity and Privacy During Dragon Con
From EFF: Atlanta – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), sci-fi blog io9, and a coalition of fan communities are launching “Project Secret Identity,” a cosplay photo campaign to raise awareness of the importance of anonymity and privacy during the annual pop culture convention Dragon Con in Atlanta, Georgia, Aug. 29 – Sept. 1. The campaign, online…
Online Course on Surveillance Law at Stanford
Learn how police and intelligence agencies can access your data, and how the law (might) protect you! Hackers, attorneys, and concerned citizens are all welcome. Jonathan Mayer of Stanford will be offering a free online course on surveillance law. Here’s the Syllabus: I. Introduction We will begin with a brief overview of how surveillance fits…