Justin Elliot has more on the issue of how easy it is — or isn’t — for law enforcement to obtain your GPS data. The issue grabbed a lot of attention last week after graduate student Chris Soghoian published some information suggesting that Sprint had gotten 8 million requests last year for customer data. Sprint…
Facebook’s New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Kevin Bankston writes: Five months after it first announced coming privacy changes this past summer, Facebook is finally rolling out a new set of revamped privacy settings for its 350 million users. The social networking site has rightly been criticized for its confusing privacy settings, most notably in a must-read report by the Canadian Privacy…
Computer of alleged Sarah Palin hacker had spyware
Robert McMillan reports: The 21-year-old college student charged with hacking former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account was using a compromised computer that was secretly logging and reporting information without his knowledge, his lawyers say. In court filings, attorneys for David Kernell say that the Acer notebooks that FBI agents seized from Kernell’s Knoxville,…
State Dept. Worker Sentenced for Passport Snooping
Grant Gross reports: An employee of the U.S. Department of State was sentenced Wednesday to 12 months of probation for illegally accessing more than 125 electronic passport application files, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Kevin M. Young, 42, of Temple Hills, Maryland, was also ordered by Judge Alan Kay, of the U.S. District Court…