This seems eerily related to what Danielle Citron was writing about in another post on this blog this morning. Leo Kelion reports: A “smart” vending machine that analyses users’ age and gender has been launched in the US by Intel and Kraft Foods. The iSample is being used to offer customers trials of a new…
Category: U.S.
Twitter gets subpoena for account info related to OccupyBoston, notifies users (update2)
This is getting ridiculous. Really. Twitter received an administrative subpoena via fax on December 14 from the District Attorney of Suffolk County, Massachusetts. The subpoena indicates that pursuant to a criminal investigation by the Suffolk County D.A.’s office and the Boston Police Department, Twitter is to provide, within 14 days, All available subscriber information, for…
Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border: A Guide for Travelers Carrying Digital Devices
From EFF: Our lives are on our laptops – family photos, medical documents, banking information, details about what websites we visit, and so much more. Thanks to protections enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, the government generally can’t snoop through your laptop for no reason. But those privacy protections don’t safeguard travelers at the U.S. border,…
U.S. Holds On to Biometrics Database of 3 Million Iraqis
Spencer Ackerman reports: The troops have come home, the flag has been been lowered, and the Iraq War is officially in the past for the U.S. military. But the military is holding on to a major souvenir of the war: a massive database packed with retinal scans, thumb prints and other biometric data identifying millions…