A US district judge rules that the FBI's warrantless “backdoor” searches of FISA's Section 702 databases violate the Fourth Amendment
but nonetheless, today's decision that Section 702 data cannot be used to spy on US persons without a warrant was hard-fought and actually a pretty big deal. — www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... @eff.org :...
A look at the $12B location data industry, including how collectors, aggregators, and marketplaces monetize user data
Companies collect and aggregate location data from millions of people's phones. Tweets: Dani Homados / @homados : Most people I talk to don't realize they live in a surveillance economy. “There is vir...
A look at the $12B location data industry, including how collectors, aggregators, and marketplaces monetize user data
A huge but little-known industry has cropped up around monetizing people's movements — Companies that you likely have never heard of are hawking access to the location history on your mobile phone. ...
Apple's plan to find CSAM should have centered around scanning images on iCloud servers, not on users' devices, where there is a greater expectation of privacy
including a number of non-obvious but critical ones. It's also why hypos as a threat assessment tool will only get you so far. https://twitter.com/... Greg Howell / @g_howell : @matthew_d_green If @Ap...
Seventh Circuit rules 3-0 that energy-consumption data collected by smart meters is covered by the 4th Amendment
Jamie Williams / Electronic Frontier Foundation :
Law experts say US government is looking to loosen Constitutional protections against arbitrary governmental surveillance, such as bulk Yahoo email scanning
they're trying to expand it. http://www.reuters.com/... Edward Snowden / @snowden : REUTERS: “Part of a growing push by officials to loosen constitutional protections Americans have.” http://www.reute...