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Facebook Has Been Accused of Intercepting Private Messages of Its Users to Provide Data
Jan 5, 2014Facebook has been accused of intercepting private messages of its users to provide data to marketers, according to a class-action lawsuit filed in a federal court in California. The social networking company scanned plaintiffs' private ...
Tags: Computer Products, Facebook
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The State Legislature,by a Vote of 113-28,Passed The Bill Last Week
Jun 3, 2013Maine is one step closer to becoming the first state in the nation with a law that would require police to obtain a court-issued search warrant in order to obtain a person's cell-phone location data. The State Legislature, by a vote of ...
Tags: Cell-Phone Tracking, Warrant, Maine
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Texas Is Poised to Become The First State in The U.S. to Require Law Enforcement Officers
May 30, 2013Texas is poised to become the first state in the U.S. to require law enforcement officers to get a search warrant based on probable cause before they access any electronic communications and customer data stored by a third-party service ...
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IRS Has Taken The Position It Does Not Need a Search Warrant to Gather Email
Apr 16, 2013CSO - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has taken the position it does not need a search warrant to gather email in criminal investigations, despite opposition from lawmakers and privacy advocates and a ruling by a federal appellate court. ...
Tags: Email Search, IRS
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Three U.S. Lawmakers Have Introduced a Bill to Provide More Protection
Mar 11, 2013Three U.S. lawmakers have introduced a bill to provide more protection from government surveillance for people who store data in the cloud. The Online Communications and Geolocation Protection Act would require U.S. law enforcement ...
Tags: cloud, data storage, Electronic Surveillance
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Google Users Have Been Subject to FBI Security Information Requests Since 2009
Mar 7, 2013Some thousand-plus Google users have been subject to FBI security information requests since 2009, the company said Tuesday. The data build on Google's already existing tally of government data requests. The new figures look at the number ...
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Google Plans to Implement Three Initiatives to Better Protect Consumers
Jan 29, 2013In light of data privacy day, the search giant promises to increase its efforts in protecting user online information. The new initiatives aim to create a stricter process for handling data request from government agencies. "If it's ...
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Analysis of Google's Transparency Reports
Jan 29, 2013Google’s Transparency Reports, which are released every six months, are interesting not just for what they reveal about government requests for Internet user data, but also for what they fail to reveal. Transparency reports are ...
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Governments Continue to Ask Google for More Data About Its Users
Jan 28, 2013Governments continue to ask Google for more data about its users, with more than two-thirds of requests in the U.S. made through a subpoena, which usually doesn't require asking a judge for a search warrant. User data requests of all ...
Tags: Google, subpoena, search warrant
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Google Is Interesting Not Just for The Reveal About Government Requests
Jan 25, 2013Google's Transparency Reports, released every six months, are interesting not just for what they reveal about government requests for Internet user data, but also for what they do not reveal. Transparency reports are basically a biannual ...
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Cloud Computing Services Are Trying to Exploit Perceived Weaknesses in Privacy Laws
Jan 4, 2013Cloud computing services from outside the U.S. are trying to exploit perceived weaknesses in privacy laws to drive business away from U.S. providers, according to some representatives of the tech industry. Deutsche Telekom and other ...
Tags: Foreign cloud, marketing, privacy, Computer Products
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Few People Heard of ECPA,But a Article About How Certain Provisions of Law Are Implemented
Dec 18, 2012A federal judge is concerned with the lack of oversight Electronic Communications Privacy Act search requests receive. Few people have ever heard of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) of 1986, but a recent New York Times ...
Tags: Electronic Communications Privacy Act, law, act, enforcement
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The Chairman of The U.S.Senate Judiciary Committee Not Reversed Course on Email Privacy
Nov 20, 2012The chairman of the U.S.Senate Judiciary Committee has not reversed course on email privacy and has not proposed to give U.S.agencies access to email and other electronic communications without search warrants,despite a news report to the ...
Tags: Sen.Leahy, U.S.Senate Judiciary Committee, video service providers
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Election Leaves Obama in The White House and Maintains The Balance of Power in Congress
Nov 7, 2012Tuesday's election leaves President Barack Obama in the White House and maintains the balance of power in Congress.In many longstanding technology debates,policy experts see little movement forward,although lawmakers may look for ...
Tags: high-skill immigration, U.S.election, large tech companies