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New law lets teens delete digital skeletons

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/New-law-lets-teens-delete-digital-skeletons-4837309.php Remember that dance-party photo you regretted posting online? How about the time you over-shared your feelings about your ex or made that comment about Barack Obama? All forever etched in the annals of the Internet. Well, maybe not – at least if you’re under 18. Legislation signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday will require Web […]

Government Standards Agency “Strongly” Suggests Dropping its Own Encryption Standard – ProPublica

http://www.propublica.org/article/standards-agency-strongly-suggests-dropping-its-own-encryption-standard Government Standards Agency “Strongly” Suggests Dropping its Own Encryption Standard Following revelations about the NSA’s covert influence on computer security standards, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, announced earlier this week it is revisiting some of its encryption standards. But in a little-noticed footnote, NIST went a step further, saying it is “strongly” recommending […]

Everything We Know About What Data Brokers Know About You – ProPublica

http://www.propublica.org/article/everything-we-know-about-what-data-brokers-know-about-you Everything We Know About What Data Brokers Know About You Sept. 13: This story has been updated. It was originally published on March 7, 2013. We’re continuing to learn new details about how the American government is collecting bulk records of citizens’ communications — from demanding that a telephone company hand over the daily […]

The Border Is a Back Door for U.S. Device Searches

http://nyti.ms/1dWEDYS By SUSAN STELLIN Last Updated: 6:20 PM PDT Newly released documents reveal how the government uses border crossings to seize and examine travelers’ electronic devices instead of obtaining a search warrant to gain access to the data. The documents detail what until now has been a largely secretive process that enables the government to […]

Feds Asked Yahoo For Data 12,444 Times In First Half Of Year

by Mark Memmott NPR – September 6, 2013 29,470 requests from governments around the world for user data in the first six months of 2013. Of that total, 12,744 — 42 percent — came from the U.S. government, Yahoo says. In its “transparency report,” Yahoo adds that it: “[h]as joined no program to volunteer user […]

N.S.A. Foils Much Internet Encryption

The National Security Agency has secretly circumvented or cracked much of the digital scrambling that protects global commerce, e-mails, phone calls, medical records and Web searches. This undated photo released by the United States government shows the National Security Agency campus in Fort Meade, Md. ASSOCIATED PRESS By NICOLE PERLROTH, JEFF LARSON and SCOTT SHANE Last […]

F.T.C. Says Webcam’s Flaw Put Users’ Lives on Display

In a case that highlights the vulnerabilities of digitally connected devices like appliances and cars — the so-called Internet of Things — the F.T.C. censured a maker of video cameras. WASHINGTON — The so-called Internet of Things — digitally connected devices like appliances, cars and medical equipment — promises to make life easier for consumers. […]

Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s

By SCOTT SHANE and COLIN MOYNIHAN Last Updated: 6:31 PM PDT For at least six years, law enforcement officials working on a counternarcotics program have had routine access, using subpoenas, to an enormous AT&T database that contains the records of decades of Americans’ phone calls — parallel to but covering a far longer time than the National […]

New Leaked Document Outlines U.S. Spending on Intelligence Agencies

New Leaked Document Outlines U.S. Spending on Intelligence Agencies By SCOTT SHANE Last Updated: 5:35 PM PDT The most detailed public disclosure of American intelligence spending in history shows a surprisingly dominant role for the Central Intelligence Agency, a growing emphasis on both defensive and offensive cyberoperations, and significant gaps in knowledge about targeted countries […]

Tag Archives: privacy

New law lets teens delete digital skeletons

Government Standards Agency “Strongly” Suggests Dropping its Own Encryption Standard – ProPublica

Everything We Know About What Data Brokers Know About You – ProPublica

The Border Is a Back Door for U.S. Device Searches

S A R A H: A FOIA request service

Feds Asked Yahoo For Data 12,444 Times In First Half Of Year

N.S.A. Foils Much Internet Encryption

F.T.C. Says Webcam’s Flaw Put Users’ Lives on Display

Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s

New Leaked Document Outlines U.S. Spending on Intelligence Agencies

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