Ryan Abbott reports on EPIC’s most recent attempt to shed the light on our government’s domestic surveillance: The Central Intelligence Agency admitted it spied on Muslims in the New York City metro area, but denied that that was “domestic spying,” a civil liberties watchdog says in a federal FOIA complaint. The Electronic Privacy Information Center…
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Revealed: NSA targeting domestic computer systems in secret test
Declan McCullagh reports: Newly released files show a secret National Security Agency program is targeting the computerized systems that control utilities to discover security vulnerabilities, which can be used to defend the United States or disrupt the infrastructure of other nations. The NSA’s so-called Perfect Citizen program conducts “vulnerability exploration and research” against the computerized…
Article: Can a Computer Intercept Your Email?
Bruce E. Boyden has an article in Cardozo Law Review (Vol. 34, No. 2). Here’s the abstract: In recent years, it has become feasible for computers to rapidly scan the contents of large amounts of communications traffic to identify certain characteristics of those messages: that they are spam, contain malware, discuss various products or services, are…
Facebook’s Proposed Amended Sponsored Settlement and Instagram’s TOS Revs
Venkat Balasubramani and Eric Goldman have blogged about the proposed settlement in Fraley v. Facebook and its potential influence on the recent changes – and then clarification – of Instagram’s terms of service (TOS). As always, they provide an interesting discussion and some questions to consider. You can read the post on Technology & Marketing…