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• EFF’s e-book buyer’s guide to privacy

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 647
  Found via BoingBoing : the Electronic Frontier Foundation has posted the first draft of an e-book buyer’s guide to privacy . The guide seems to be fairly minimalist, as it only covers Google Books, Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes & Noble’s Nook, the Sony Reader, and FBReader. There is no mention of other e-book ...
  10 hours ago

• All The King’s Men

  
  Litopia Daily & Litopia After Dark — Authority: 124
  Here’s a quick quiz for you – who said this?  “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” If you guessed Humpty Dumpty, give ...
  4 days ago

• Privacy groups petition FTC to restore old Facebook privacy settings

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 158
  With a new set of default privacy settings rolled out this month, Facebook may or may not have meant to trick its users, as some have charged, into oversharing their personal information. But regardless of Facebook’s intent, the changes have continued to agitate many users.Today, a group of privacy advocates led by ...
  4 days ago

• Ron Wyden Reveals Senate Intelligence Committee Knew of DHS Spying on Law-Abiding Citizens

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 515
  This week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has obtained a series of government documents that demonstrate efforts by the Department of Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis over the past three years to draw up “terrorist watch list” reports on American political and religious groups based on ...
  5 days ago

• DHS and State Spying Nominees Hesitate to Allow Senate Oversight

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 515
  Federal News Radio seems to be the only journalistic enterprise in the nation to have picked up on this exchange, in which the nominees for the Department of Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis (Caryn A. Wagner) and the Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research (Philip Goldberg) ...
  5 days ago

• Intelligence Improperly Collected on U.S. Citizens

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 133
  In all three cases, after other Homeland Security Department officials raised concerns, copies of the reports were destroyed. The agency also held a workshop on intelligence-gathering "while ensuring the protection of civil rights and civil liberties..."More Articles
  5 days ago

• EFF Fights for Anonymity for Online Critic in Friday Hearing

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 436
  EFF Fights for Anonymity for Online Critic in Friday Hearing : Via EFF.org Updates . San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has asked a federal judge in San Francisco to quash a baseless subpoena aimed at outing an anonymous online critic of a Pennsylvania company called USA Technologies. A hearing ...
  6 days ago

• Undermining the American People’s Right to Privacy: The Secret State’s Surveillance Machine By Tom Burghardt

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 144
  Hoping to forestall public suspicions of how things actually work in Washington, the administration has declared that "it will continue to block the release of additional documents, including communications within the Executive Branch and records reflecting the identities of telecoms involved in lobbying for ...
  1 week ago

• Move to National ID Cards Delayed

  
  JustGetThere — Authority: 138
  By David Kravets Wired | The United States’ quest for a national identification database associated with driver’s licenses won’t be finished by year’s end. The deadline was Dec. 31 for the states to create what would be the largest identification database of its kind under the auspices of the Real ID ...
  1 week ago

• Big Brother Can Spy on Me If I Work for Him?

  
  GigaOM — Authority: 776
  Everybody’s up in arms about the lack of online privacy these days, but it seems like if you work for the U.S. government, you ought to be more worried than most. The Supreme Court said today that it’s considering a case involving monitored text messages from a government worker that could have big implications ...
  1 week ago

• Twitter Tapping - government agents tracking public information

  
  Seven Generational Ruminations — Authority: 440
  An NY TImes editorial Twitter Tapping discusses a Freedom of Information Act suit by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. There is widespread understanding that government agents are snooping around ...
  1 week ago

• ComMetrics weekly review: iPhone to EFF via World Bank

  
  ComMetrics: social media monitoring => best practice — Authority: 115
  Every week we tweet about a lot of fascinating stuff, highlighting  great content that is of  interest to social media folks and corporate bloggers . This weekly compilation provides you with our top tweets for the previous seven days. Our  top stories include  Facebook’s privacy policy changes and why EFF ...
  1 week ago

• Nope, keep the change, civil liberties edition

  
  Corrente — Authority: 628
  Twitter Tapping The government is increasingly monitoring Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites for tax delinquents, copyright infringers and political protesters. A public interest group has filed a lawsuit to learn more about this monitoring, in the hope of starting a national discussion and ...
  1 week ago

• i think this is worth posting

  
  ravings of a semi-sane madwoman — Authority: 446
  i dont know what happened. i wasnt there. i know sometimes (border) cops get the wrong end of the deal. i also know sometimes theyre trying to show you how big their dicks are i dont normally post WHOLE stories i link too. the link and a paragraph or two. if youre interested enough (obviously i was or i wouldnt ...
  1 week ago

• Getting what you pay for online — or not

  
  FinanceTechNews.com — Authority: 129
  Okay, so Facebook’s got new privacy features that actually make your profile info less private than it was in the past. And Rupert Murdoch’s whining that free content on the Internet’s gonna slurp up his billions made selling faux news on TV. Does anybody get what they want online anymore? Well, I must admit ...
  1 week ago

• Facebooks New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly | EFF

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 436
  Facebooks New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly : Via Electronic Frontier Foundation. 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 ...
  1 week ago

• Why should you care about Facebook privacy changes? Because Facebook won’t care on your behalf.

  
  who do you think you are? — Authority: 99
  It’s been a day since Facebook overhauled its privacy policy, and if you’re anything like me, your news feed is inundated with complaints, confusion, and furor.  I’ve read a lot of misinformation as to what Facebook is up to and what those concerned about their Facebook privacy should do, so here’s a quick ...
  1 week ago

• Facebooks Privacy Changes Roll Out

  
  NPR Blogs: Blog of the Nation — Authority: 431
  By Sarah Handel If youre a Facebook user, you may have, in the last day or two, received a notification when you logged in that privacy settings are changing. If youre anything like me, you clicked through, thinking youd read it later. Well I just went back in to see if I could find it, and couldnt, so heres the ...
  1 week ago

• Facebook Privacy Change Causes Uproar Among The Campaigners

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  By Meena KarDec 10, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Leading social networking website Facebook is facing heaps of criticism from civil liberties campaigners due to its newly introduced private settings policy. With its new private settings policy, the civil liberties campaigners fear that the technology can drastically increase the ...
  1 week ago

• Facebook faces criticism on privacy change – BBC News

  
  Memmis.com News Agency — Authority: 171
  Globe and Mail Facebook faces criticism on privacy change BBC News In a statement, the Electronic Frontier Foundation said: "These new privacy changes are clearly intended to push Facebook users to publicly share even ... Facebook Privacy Changes Go Live; Beware of "Everyone" PC ...
  1 week ago

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