A press release from IAB: The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is issuing its full support for the Digital Advertising Alliance’s (DAA) position against machine-driven “do-not-track” (DNT) browser standards, because they restrict consumer control and freedom of choice. The announcement comes on the heels of a just-released DAA statement opposing the DNT settings automatically imposed on…
Category: U.S.
Big Brother invades our classrooms
Over on Salon, David Rosen has a lengthy article detailing the expansion of student surveillance in the U.S. A lot of it is what I’ve been blogging about for the past few years, but if you’re new to this blog, he provides a good recap of what’s going on in various states and why. Disappointingly…
Homeland Security Learns to Love Small Spy Drones
Spencer Ackerman writes: There was a time when the Department of Homeland Security wasn’t enthusiastic about its drone fleet. Unmanned flying surveillance ‘bots had the potential to freak out the public, top DHS science and technology officials worried. That time has evidently passed — particularly for smaller flying spies. In the coming months, Fort Sill,…
Article: Facebook and Interpersonal Privacy: Why the Third Party Doctrine Should Not Apply [DRAFT]
Monu Singh Bedi of DePaul University College of Law has uploaded a draft version of an upcoming issue of Boston College Law Review. Here’s the abstract: Do communications over social networking sites such as Facebook merit Fourth Amendment protection? The Supreme Court has not directly answered this question and lower courts are not in agreement….