Online surveillance bill would have unlocked personal secrets: privacy watchdog
By Jim Bronskill | The Province The Harper government’s recent bid to give police more information about Internet users would have unlocked numerous revealing personal details — from web-surfing habits to names of friends, says a new study by the federal privacy watchdog. The online surveillance bill was effectively a digital key to determining someone’s [...]
Read More →“Big Brother” is big business?
CBS The odds are you are not just a face in the crowd any longer. Even if your picture isn’t plastered all over social networking and photo-sharing sites, facial recognition technology in public places is making it harder if not impossible to remain anonymous. Lesley Stahl reports on the new ways this technology is being [...]
Read More →Skype with care – Microsoft is reading everything you write
The H Security Anyone who uses Skype has consented to the company reading everything they write. The H‘s associates in Germany at heise Security have now discovered that the Microsoft subsidiary does in fact make use of this privilege in practice. Shortly after sending HTTPS URLs over the instant messaging service, those URLs receive an unannounced visit from [...]
Read More →FBI Shrugs Off Law Requiring Email Warrants
By Matt Bewig | AllGov Despite a federal appeals court ruling that government snooping on emails requires a search warrant, the FBI and other federal law enforcers regularly ignore this constitutional mandate, according to documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union under the Freedom of Information Act. At the same time that it acts as if it has [...]
Read More →Use These Secret NSA Google Search Tips to Become Your Own Spy Agency
By Kim Zetter | Wired There’s so much data available on the internet that even government cyberspies need a little help now and then to sift through it all. So to assist them, the National Security Agency produced a book to help its spies uncover intelligence hiding on the web. The 643-page tome, called Untangling the Web: [...]
Read More →U.S. gives big, secret push to Internet surveillance
By Declan McCullagh | C|net Justice Department agreed to issue “2511 letters” immunizing AT&T and other companies participating in a cybersecurity program from criminal prosecution under the Wiretap Act, according to new documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Senior Obama administration officials have secretly authorized the interception of communications carried on portions of [...]
Read More →UK.Gov passes Instagram Act: All your pics belong to everyone now
By Andrew Orlowski | The Register Have you ever uploaded a photo to Facebook, Instagram or Flickr? If so, you’ll probably want to read this, because the rules on who can exploit your work have now changed radically, overnight. Amateur and professional illustrators and photographers alike will find themselves ensnared by the changes, the result [...]
Read More →German police hope to use new spyware
By Wolfgang Dick | DW German investigators are hoping to gain greater access to telecommunications data in order to combat terrorism. But there is controversy over the spyware they want to use to keep tabs on private computers. The application can search a hard drive and download its contents in a matter of minutes. Pages viewed [...]
Read More →Senate Majority Leader Reid Fast Tracks the Internet Sales Tax Vote
By Bob Adelmann | New American Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid decided last week to push through Wyoming Senator Mike Enzi’s bill, the Marketplace Fairness Act, so that it bypasses any committee debates and thus can be brought to the floor for a vote immediately. A vote on Enzi’s bill, S. 743, is expected this week. The [...]
Read More →House ‘wouldn’t even allow debate’ on CISPA amendment requiring warrant before database search
By Madison Ruppert | End the Lie The U.S. House of Representatives passed CISPA today with the majority of the major problems intact. When Rep. Alan Grayson proposed an amendment that would require the National Security Agency, FBI, Department of Homeland Security and others to obtain a warrant before searching a database, it was shot [...]
Read More →U.S. House of Representatives Shamefully Passes CISPA; Internet Freedom Advocates Prepare for a Battle in the Senate
By Dave Maass and Mark M. Jaycox | EFF Today, Internet freedom advocates everywhere turned their eyes to the U.S. House of Representatives as that legislative body considered the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. For the second year in a row, the House voted to approve CISPA, a bill that would allow companies to [...]
Read More →IRS Promises To Abandon Warrantless Email Spying After Public Outcry
By Gregory Ferenstein | Tech Crunch The IRS chief has promised to abandon a controversial policy of snooping emails without a warrant. During congressional testimony, the IRS’s acting commissioner, Steven Miller, said “we intend to do that” after Sen. Ron Wyden (CrunchGov Grade: A) asked whether the agency would ditch its warrantless spying policy. The IRS spying policy [...]
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