- Mainstream media whitewashes the facts behind TrapWire scandal
- Trapwire surveillance system exposed in document leak--"Papers released by WikiLeaks show US department of homeland security paid $832,000 to deploy system in two cities."
- Cubic Exec Lies to Anonymous on Trapwire
- The Program--"The filmmaker Laura Poitras profiles William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the National Security Agency who helped design a top-secret program he says is broadly collecting Americans' personal data." NYT
- Giving In to the Surveillance State--"The National Security Agency is mining our data like never before. It needs more oversight." NYT
- Pushing back the surveillance state: we must get behind these two bills
- The new totalitarianism of surveillance technology--"If you think that 24/7 tracking of citizens by biometric recognition systems is paranoid fantasy, just read the industry newsletters."
- FBI To Give Facial Recognition Software to Law-Enforcement Agencies
- Lansing Surveillance Cameras Are Costly, Ineffective and Invasive, ACLU Report Warns
- U.K. Govt. Employee Arrested for Downloading Surveillance Footage of Couple Having Sex
- California state legislature approves Location Privacy Act
- How Privacy in America Went Virtually Extinct in Just a Decade
- Don't Build a Database of Ruin--"Many businesses today find themselves locked in an arms race with competitors to see who can convert customer secrets into the most pennies. To try to win, they are building perfect digital dossiers, to use a phrase coined by Daniel Solove, massive data stores containing hundreds, if not thousands or tens of thousands, of facts about every member of our society." The "Database of Ruin" comes when these companies "combine their data stores, which will give rise to a single, massive database."
- Your car, tracked: the rapid rise of license plate readers
- Detailed Parking Tickets Breach Personal Privacy, Appeals Court Says
- New Documents Show That Feds Share License Plate Scanning Data With Insurance Firms
- Twitter Fights Back to Protect 'Occupy Wall Street' Protester
- SKorean judges block law requiring real names online, ruling it restricts freedom of speech
- Keeping Your Site Alive--"Denial of service (DoS) and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are increasingly common phenomena, used by a variety of actors—from activists to governments—to temporarily or indefinitely prevent a site from functioning efficiently."
- Big Brother on a budget: How Internet surveillance got so cheap--"Deep packet inspection, petabyte-scale analytics create a 'CCTV for networks.'"
- In a Blow to Hulu, Judge Rules Video Privacy Law Applies Online
- Web Sites Accused of Collecting Data on Children--"The sites cited by the advocacy groups include McDonald's HappyMeal.com; Nick.com, the Nickelodeon site owned by Viacom; General Mills' ReesesPuffs.com; SubwayKids.com; another General Mills site, TrixWorld.com; and Turner's CartoonNetwork.com." NYT
- The Very Real Perils Of Rich Kids On Social Networks
- Google Building Privacy Red Team
- Google Analytics Could Be Banned In Norway
- Australia: Authorities gain power to collect Australians' internet records--However, there is "opposition o the Government's 'unjustified' and 'incoherent' proposals to increase cyber-surveillance of citizens."
- How Facebook design tricks people into trading away privacy
- In the Facebook Era, Students Tell You Everything
- Three years later, deleting your photos on Facebook now actually works
- Judge rejects Facebook's 'Sponsored Stories' settlement
- Facebook threatened by German consumer group over App Center privacy info
- Abuse of Youtube's copyright infringement claim process for doxxing purposes
- Heavy dose of hyperlinks gets defamation lawsuit against Gizmodo tossed
- UK 'too heavy-handed' with Twitter and online trolls
- India blocks more than 250 Web sites for inciting hate, panic
- Jordanian Online News Portals and Websites to Blackout in Protest of New Press Law
- Pakistan shelves 'obscene' SMS ban--The Pakistan Telecom Authority wanted to ban dirty texting.
- Obscenity Trial Suspended After Judge Posts Sex Images Online
- Couple gets prison time for Internet obscenity
