From EPIC.org: The 2012 Democratic National Platform supports the administration’s Internet Privacy Bill of Rights to protect consumer privacy. Separate provisions in the platform call for privacy protections for broadband deployment, intellectual property enforcement, and cybersecurity laws; the Democratic platform opposes voter identification laws. However, the platform is silent on the Fourth Amendment, and retreats from the 2008 Democratic platform that opposed surveillance of individuals that were…
Category: Misc
Researchers Expose Locations of Pirate Bay Uploaders
Ernesto writes: Academic researchers have published information on the individuals and groups who upload torrent files to The Pirate Bay. The data reveals that most torrent files are first seeded from U.S. connections, with Comcast and Road Runner being the top Internet providers. The researchers also reveal the top 100 uploaders to The Pirate Bay…
Privacy, Masks, and Religion
Omer Tene is blogging over on Concurring Opinions. He has an entry that caught my eye in light of a recent item about wearing pixellated masks in public to protect privacy. Omer writes, in part: Absent legal protection, individuals may embrace privacy enhancing technologies (PETs). One such (admittedly low-tech) PET is a mask. In a…
Researchers Hack Brainwaves to Reveal PIN Numbers, Other Personal Data
Geeta Dayal reports: Don’t you dare even think about your banking account password when you slap on those fancy new brainwave headsets. Or at least that seems to be the lesson of a new study which found that sensitive personal information, such as PIN numbers and credit card data, can be gleaned from the brainwave…