Jaikumar Vijayan has a great follow-up piece about Los Angeles’ plan to move some of the city’s records and services to the cloud. As reported previously, the city’s police department and privacy advocates have raised concerns about the proposal… Google Inc. this week came swinging at critics who have cited privacy and security concerns in…
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NY High School To Provide Pregnancy, STD Testing
Is it providing high school students a needed service or shutting parents out of their teen’s lives? A recent decision by the Port Chester Board of Education has some thinking it’s too much intrusion. As Port Chester High School gets ready for the new school year, officials have signed off on a new service that…
Hobby or harassment? Blogger Strom jailed for cop site
Elisha Strom has been sitting in Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail for two weeks. Her alleged crime? Publishing the address of an officer on the Jefferson Area Drug Enforcement, JADE, task force. […] The Code of Virginia forbids publication of law-enforcement officers’ addresses or photographs with the “intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass” in §18.2-186.4. Most recently…
Major national security leak via P2P
Details about a U.S. Secret Service safe house for the First Family — to be used in a national emergency — were found to have leaked on a LimeWire file-sharing network recently, members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee were told this morning. Also unearthed on LimeWire networks in recent days were presidential…