1. 25 Apr



    A measure that would require law enforcement to get a warrant to read citizens’ emails regardless of their age or whether they have been opened passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on a voice vote Thursday.
    — “Email Warrant Measure Gets Senate Judiciary Nod,” Mashable
     

  2. 12 Mar



    Google Fined $7 Million in Street View Privacy Settlement

    The terms of Google’s Street View settlement have finally been announced.

     

  3. 11 Mar



    Should the U.S. Adopt European-Style Data-Privacy Protections?

    Here’s a great, simple explanation of the US-EU privacy law debate. Your personal information is becoming increasingly commoditized, and wherever this debate goes will have significant consequences for your personal privacy both online and offline.

     

  4. 11 Dec



    Since its launch in 2004, Facebook has amassed a mountainous hoard of user data and has been scrutinized by lawmakers and federal regulators for how it uses that data and keeps it private.

    Egan’s job is to help explain the company’s privacy policies to its gigantic user base, which reached 1 billion monthly active users in October.

    — Facebook’s chief privacy officer works to keep 1 billion friends in the loop, Hillicon Valley
     

  5. 10 Dec



    The growth of the Internet, social networking and mobile technologies has transformed how Americans communicate and exchange information, but Congress has lagged in updating federal privacy laws to safeguard digital communications from inappropriate prying. Late last month, the Senate Judiciary Committee made some serious progress in the right direction.
    — A Step Toward E-Mail Privacy, New York Times
     

  6. 6 Dec



    If I’m not spying on private citizens through the security cam in the parking garage, I’m probably sifting through their garbage for discarded pages from their diaries or deploying billions of spambots to crack into their e-mail. Reading what others muse about my profession is the opposite of my middle-school experience: people with only superficial information about me make a bunch of assumptions to fill in what’s missing and decide that I’m an all-knowing super-genius.

    Sadly for me, this is a bunch of malarkey.

    — “I Am Not Big Brother,” op-ed by Obama for America data director Ethan Roeder.
     

  7. 6 Dec



    No warrant, no problem: How the government can still get your digital data

     

  8. 5 Dec



    Part of Facebook’s mobile strategy is competing with iMessages and WhatsApp to replace the decades-old SMS text message. The underlying privacy issue here: Do you trust Facebook with your most intimate of conversations? Because I sure don’t.

    More info here: Facebook Introduces Messenger For Non-Users

     

  9. 13 Nov


    Google: “Government surveillance is on the rise.”

    Google: “Government surveillance is on the rise.”

     

  10. 13 Jul



    Facebook Monitors Your Chats for Criminal Activity

    Facebook and other social platforms are watching users’ chats for criminal activity and notifying police if any suspicious behavior is detected, according to a report from Reuters.