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• Obama administration spied on Fox News reporter’s e-mails and phone calls

  
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  Twitchy has everything linked here. Here’s a quick snapshot of what happened from radically left-wing UK Guardian , of all places: (links removed) Fox News chief Washington correspondent James Rosen had his emails read by the Obama DOJ, which accused him of being a co-conspirator in a criminal leak case. It ...
  2 days ago

• A Bidding War For Waze, The Crowdsourced Mapping Service

  
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  Vindu Goel,  Facebook Is Said to Be in Talks to Buy Waze Waze, which has more than 40 million users globally, is unusual in that it relies primarily on GPS data and real-time information from its users, who contribute updates on traffic, routes and even where to buy cheap gasoline. Users of the service also ...
  1 week ago

• If You Aspire to be a Fascist, You Might as Well BE One

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 148
  Oh, isnt THIS lovely ? The proposed law would force social networks and other communications companies to provide government access or face fines that, according to the Washington Post, would multiply exponentially and threaten companies with bankruptcy. While keeping silent on the unconstitutional nature of the ...
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• Obama Supports Expansion of Wiretap Laws

  
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  U.S. Government to fine companies that do not comply with wiretap orders that violate users privacy. Activist Post Spying without a warrant in America is a crime, a violation of privacy rights protected by the U.S. Constitution. Yet, the government is asking technology companies to commit this crime or ...
  1 week ago

• Tech at Night: Getting proven right on CISPA, again, as Obama proves to be anti-privacy.

  
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  Im on antihistamines and hoping Im not getting too sick, so this is going to be less... focused than it usually will be. Hang on. Lets recap the CISPA situation. Anonymous is proving why we need it (though BGR is delusional for thinking Anonymous was "attacking North Korea" when it hacked Twitter accounts, though ...
  2 weeks ago

• Whitehouse and FBI Fine Tuning Internet Wiretap Policy

  
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  The Federal Bureau of Investigation plan for a sweeping overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people who communicate using the Internet rather than by traditional phone services, according to officials familiar with the deliberations. Christopher Gregory/The New York Times Robert ...
  2 weeks ago

• Op-ed: Dont needlessly expand local police wiretapping authority

  
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  The Houston Chronicle today published an op ed I wrote in opposition to legislation expanding authority of large Texas police departments to perform wiretapping. Grits readers have seen most of the arguments before, but for those interested, see it here . The column concluded: This bill amounts to a solution ...
  2 weeks ago

• Daily Must Reads, May 8, 2013

  
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  1. Internet goes down in Syria (Huffington Post) 2. Obama may back plan to wiretap web users (NYT) 3. Yahoo’s Mayer met with Hulu execs to explore premium video unit (AllThingsD) 4. Twitter’s legal director selected as White House’s first chief privacy officer (CNET) 5. Planet Money and Kickstarter: Is web-based ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wasteful police spending, Big Brother, and prison stories

  
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  Here are a few brief items that caught Grits attention but didnt make it into independent posts: Eliminate waste rather than throw money at new police hires The Austin PD is requesting nearly 100 more uniformed officers in the next city budget. As Grits has argued many times , instead of hiring ever-more ...
  2 weeks ago

• POLICE STATE: FBI agent states all telephone calls recorded [or at least transcribed] and accessible to the US government

  
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  POLICE STATE: FBI agent states all telephone calls recorded [or at least transcribed] and accessible to the US government Stasi? KGB? Nah, just ‘Murica. As for the various debates about if there is space to hold it all…. Of course there is, but also: Convert it to text and there’s no more space issues. ...
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• Former FBI Agent Tim Clemente: Government Is Recording All Phone Calls

  
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  Via Glenn Greenwald: On Wednesday night, CNN’s Erin Burnett interviewed Tim Clemente , a former FBI counterterrorism agent, about whether the FBI would be able to discover the contents of past telephone conversations between Katherine Russell, the 24-year-old American widow of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and her husband. ...
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• The Inevitable Death of the Free Internet

  
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  An interesting topic came up in a discussion on Reddit today in an AskReddit thread entitled, " What is something we should enjoy while its still legal? " The top response, by user Dont_Trust_Ducks, with over 424 points stated, quite simply: "The unrestricted internet. Sopa. Cispa. F***, it aint gonna last forever." ...
  2 weeks ago

• What If the FBI Wiretapped Your Facebook Account?

  
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  Both current and former U.S. officials are proposing legislation that could put pressure on Google, Facebook and other tech companies to make it possible for law enforcement to "eavesdrop" on online communication as they occ
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• Electronic privacy roundup: Hating on the drone bill and other downers

  
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  Here are a few electronic privacy issues that caught my eye: Cell phone triangulation now as accurate as GPS So much for the idea that cell-phone location data is less accurate than GPS, see " Cell phone network upgrades make location tracking almost as precise as GPS ." Said an expert quoted in the story, "It is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Written testimony against expanding local PD wiretap authority

  
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  Read written testimony your correspondent submitted on his own behalf to the Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee asking them to reject HB 530 by Fletcher and its senate companion SB 188 by Huffman expanding the authority of the largest police departments to perform wiretapping without Department of Public ...
  3 weeks ago

• Local police want to bypass DPS on wiretapping but rarely use labor-intensive tactic

  
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  Earlier, Grits complained at length about a bill passed out of the Texas Senate, SB 188 , by Sen. Joan Huffman, expanding wiretapping authority and on Monday its House companion HB 530 , by Rep. Allen Fletcher, will be heard by the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee. The legislation would let the six largest ...
  3 weeks ago

• New claims fly in Bulgarias Watergate scandal

  
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  Bulgarias former agriculture minister is accusing the ex-interior minister of illegally wiretapping everyone in the previous Cabinet. Miroslav Naydenovs allegations have further fueled a surveillance scandal that has shaken the country ahead of next months general elections. Some media here call it ...
  3 weeks ago

• Will Recent Supreme Court Decision “Clap Off” the Lights on Data Breach Class Actions?

  
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  Data breach cases are popular targets for class actions these days because a single incident of hacking or theft can expose the sensitive personal or financial information of millions of people at a time.  However, a key hurdle in these cases has been proof of harm sufficient to satisfy the Article ...
  4 weeks ago

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