Category Archives: Privacy & You
BIGGER attacks on internet freedom
People have a right to privacy and also a right to develop our own minds and make thoughtful decisions. Every time major corporations and governments acquire one more way to track our activities and interests, compile statistics about what we … Continue reading
Who Has Your Back on The Web?
Internet privacy is a matter of online civil liberty. Friends, we have an ongoing need to educate ourselves about what privacy means in the Internet environment and take action to protect it. The Internet “space” we live in today is … Continue reading
Hide your list of email recipients
This morning I received a hoax email forward and was disgruntled, but not surprised, to discover that my friend, along with many previous senders, had made visible to each recipient the long list of other people to whom that email … Continue reading
No user privacy on iPhones & iPads
Did you know that data is collected by Apple applications running on iPhones and iPads, and is transmitted to the applications’ owners, without you knowing about this? Craig Michael Lie Njie of KismetWorldWide learned while creating an application for his … Continue reading
Family sues school for spying on student
In a tale that mirrors the crushing privacy violations and vitriolic penal environment of Delores Umbridge in Harry Potter’s world, high school administrators in the Lower Merion School District of Pennsylvania used school issued computers, and software supposedly installed to … Continue reading
Sold out for $8359.00. Are we worth more?
Congress last week reversed its March decision to not allow immunity to telecomunications providers who have allowed phone wiretapping without court orders and voted to approve S2248, the FISA Amendment Act 2008. The senate vote is expected as soon as … Continue reading
No Quechup Please – say “no” to invites
I was surprised to receive an invitation from a colleague to join the quechup.com network so we can continue our [non-existent] friendship there. I figured G had sent out a notice to everyone in her address book without first removing … Continue reading
Stop National ID bill!
The REAL ID provision was built into a must-pass appropriations bill in 2005 to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now a provision to make REAL ID permanent has been hidden in an immigration bill making its way through … Continue reading
Is Facebook funded by the CIA?
I just learned that the CIA has a venture capital branch. And guess what? One of the guys who runs it helped start Facebook. I particularly loved learning this little tidbit of information: when you become a Facebook member you … Continue reading
Princeton Professor emeritus & 25-year Marine on Terrorist Watch List
Mark Graber [Professor, U Maryland School of Law] posts on Balkinization