Tag: Privacy
Posted on Fri May 10, 2013 at 03:02:05 PM EST
Tags: privacy, cell phone data (all tags)
While the sand slipped through the opening
And their hands reached for the golden ring....
CNet reports Apple has been so swamped with law enforcement demands to decrypt iPhone data, it has created a waiting list.
For background on the decryption, see here and this earlier article. I've uploaded the two pages of the October, 2012 ATF search warrant discussing Apple's ability to bypass security codes and provide the information to law enforcement here. (Obtained from Pacer in the Kentucky case, it's a poor copy but readable.)[More...]
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Posted on Wed Mar 03, 2010 at 09:48:44 AM EST
Tags: surveillance, wiretapping, data mining, privacy (all tags)
Yesterday, there was a major victory for privacy. Unfortunately, it was not in the US. The German Constitutional Court threw out as unconstitutional a law which required storage of all flavors of electronic data on everyone. Further, they required that the databases which had been built to comply with that law be erased. Immediately.
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Posted on Thu Jan 11, 2007 at 11:43:23 AM EST
Tags: george w. bush, privacy, civil rights, war on terror (all tags)
Bush is fed up with hearing how his actions and policies violate our privacy rights. True to Bush's Orwellian worldview, his answer is to create a privacy board to ostensibly protect our rights. In reality, it is Mr. Decider who controls the privacy board so that his interpretation of laws will determine how and if our rights are actually protected by more than shallow words. It is the implementation of these interpretations which will chip away through the backdoor or repeal/amend our privacy rights under federal law. The chipping has already started.
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Posted on Thu Dec 07, 2006 at 09:59:37 PM EST
Tags: My Space, Privacy (all tags)
Hard to believe that a message board for the Texas District Attorneys' Association is public, but it is. It's also revealing in its revelation of tactics prosecutors use for minor offenses.
Via Grits for Breakfast, here's the thread. Grits says:
Be careful who you agree to let become one of your MySpace friends - what you blog can and will be used against you if they turn out to be a police investigator.
I'm going to reprint much of the thread below in case it's taken down.
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