Andy Greenberg reports: Earlier this summer, Berlin-based artist and coder Julian Oliver released Glasshole.sh, a simple and free piece of software designed to detect Google Glass and boot it from any local Wi-Fi network. That DIY idea, says Oliver, was so popular among Glass’s critics that he’s now offering his cyborg-foiling hack to the masses in…
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Brennan Center Urges Series of Reforms to Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
From the Brennan Center for Justice: The Brennan Center for Justice submitted comments on the mid-term and long-term agenda of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), recommending that the Board focus on four issues: 1) the FBI’s authorities under the Attorney General’s Guidelines, 2) fusion centers and Suspicious Activity Reporting, 3) the NSA’s…
The Potemkinism of Privacy Pragmatism
Chris Hoofnagle writes: A revolution is afoot in privacy regulation. In an assortment of white papers and articles, business leaders—including Microsoft—and scholars argue that instead of regulating privacy through limiting the collection of data, we should focus on how the information is used. It’s called “use regulation,” and this seemingly obscure issue has tremendous implications…
National identity card a threat to our privacy
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…