This is in spite of the fact that there are still a lot of un-answered questions about how they’re going to comply with privacy laws and what this is going to do to fourth amendment rights. It’s very possible that use of this kind of surveillance will be in violation of forth amendment protections if used beyond a certain magnification.
Is it any surprise that Google has confirmed that they are indeed using DoubleClick tracking cookies to keep track of people’s web surfing habits and putting that information to use in refining their advertising?
I got a comment on my recent post “Is Hushmail Safe?” where someone expressed the idea that a privacy service located in Canada wouldn’t be able to provide you with any real protection because of it’s proximity to the US and MLAT treaties between the two.
There’s been a fair amount of talk lately about Hushmail and whether it’s still “safe” to use. This has apparently originated with a post on cyptome that cast some doubt on the .jar file for the applet that they use. This was later corrected, apparently somebody compared the wrong files.
That’s the question that more and more people are asking after Comcast and then others have been caught interfering with customers net connections by sending false reset packets to both sides of a bittorrent transfer.
The Congress finally manage to pass the recent FISA Amendments Act in spite of serious opposition from the EFF and a lot of other concerned citizens and organizations all across the country. Fortunately, even though it’s been passed, the fight to get the telecoms held accountable for participating in illegal, warrantless domestic spying is continuing.
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!When I first read this story I thought it just HAD to be a joke or something but it’s actually real. The EU is testing a new prototype system of cameras mounted in strategic places planes to monitor the [...]
Powered by Max Banner Ads There’s an article on PC World that’s worth reading if you think that your ISP might be interfering with your ability to use BitTorrent applications.
They refer to a couple of tools, one called Glasnost and another from EFF called pcapdiff that they developed to allow people to identify potentially forged, dropped, [...]
Powered by Max Banner Ads Here’s something that looks like it fell right out of a James Bond movie. It’s a “Secret Agent Pen Camcorder”. That’s right. A pen that contains a video and an audio pickup. It records Mpeg4 video and sound in an .avi container on 1GB of flash memory [...]
Powered by Max Banner Ads In today’s age of all too frequently justified paranoia there’s an issue that is coming up more and more often. There are a lot more publicly accessible computers these days. They’re in Internet Cafe’s and all I’ve even seen one in a hospital lobby that allowed people to surf [...]
