On March 28, 2017, the United States Congress voted to repeal regulations issued by the FCC which would have required Internet Service Providers to obtain the consent of their customers before they could sell their information. Currently, if you visit a website like Facebook, Twitter, or Google, the website collects the fact that you have visited,…
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Julian Assange has offered to help make your product more secure. Julian Assange has offered to make you a felon. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has released information about the CIA’s “Vault 7” Swiss Army knife toolkit for rooting and hacking into computers, phones, routers, networks, and IoT devices. These include a wealth of theoretical, known, and “zero…
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The New York Times recently reported that ride sharing service Uber used a tactic – approved by their lawyers – called “greyballing” – to thwart efforts by law and code enforcement agencies from catching Uber drivers and the company operating in prohibited areas. Without commenting on the legality of the particular service itself, the case raises the question…
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Once again the United States Supreme Court steps into the thicket of how and when the States may regulate the content and actions of users of social media. In oral arguments on February 27, the Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of a North Carolina law that prohibited the use of Facebook or other social media sites…
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It has been reported that Presidential spokesperson Sean Spicer called an emergency meeting of his staff to hunt for leaks. At that meeting, reportedly approved by and supervised by White House counsel, Spicer demanded that the staffers produce their cell phones (government and personal) for examination to determine whether or not they were the leakers,…
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Earlier, I wrote about the efforts by the Bentonville, Arkansas police department to compel Amazon to produce – by search warrant issued by an Arkansas judge – the contents of conversations that either the perpetrator or victim of a murder might have had in the presence of an Amazon Echo. I’ve also written generally about…
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