- ACLU: CISPA Is Dead (For Now)—"The Senate will not take up the controversial cybersecurity bill, is drafting separate legislation."
- CISPA's Immunity Provision Would Allow Corporate Hacking—"A perceived threat could be anything–whatever act a business finds threatening."
- ThinkSquad on CISPA
- Spyware used by governments poses as Firefox, and Mozilla is angry—"Mozilla sends cease and desist letter to maker of FinFisher software."
- Judge Rejects FBI Attempt to Use Spyware to Infiltrate Unknown Suspect's Computer
- Feds want to expand wiretap law from ISPs to Google, Facebook—"FBI wants Web companies to make digital 'back doors,' or pay fines."
- DoJ Secretly Granted Immunity to Companies that Participated in Monitoring Program
- Privacy is 'off the table' in a 'post-9/11 world,' says New York City police chief—"Authorities using terror in the wake of the Boston bombings to justify expansion of public surveillance."
- Judge Allows Evidence Gathered From FBI’s Spoofed Cell Tower
- Lady Liberty's Watching You—"I wanted to write about face-recognition software considered for use at the statue. Here's what happened."
- DOJ: We don't need warrants for e-mail, Facebook chats
- Secretive Spy Court Approved Nearly 2,000 Surveillance Requests in 2012
- Prepare for Oz privacy reforms now: Attorney-general, privacy commissioner
- Dutch police may get right to hack in cyber crime fight
- When Did Google Become the Internet Police?
- Here's a Good Reason to Encrypt Your Data—"There's many reasons to password-protect -- or encrypt -- one's digital data. Foremost among them is to protect it during a security breach. Another top reason to encrypt is to keep the government out of your hard drive."
- Who Has Your Back? 2013: Which companies help protect your data from the government?—Surprisingly, "EFF ranks Apple worse than Facebook when it comes to protecting your data."
- Apple can decrypt iPhones for cops; Google can remotely "reset password" for Android devices
- Senate committee passes ECPA bill to increase email privacy, full floor vote next
- Florida court clamps down on cops searching through cellphones
- 'Deleted' Snapchat photos saved in phone data, can be examined as evidence
- Cyanide & Happiness: History
- Who is tracking you across the Web? Even the ad industry doesn't know
- The Man Who Turned Off Cookies In Firefox Doesn't Care If It Hurts Advertisers
- Ex-Google ad engineer fights back against advertisers with anti-tracking software
- Web users, tracked by corporations, try to turn tables
- With UDID gone, the mobile-ad floodgates will open – straight to Apple iOS
- Users complain Path sending spam messages to contacts, company says it's a feature not a bug
- Facebook Blocks Path's "Find Friends" Access Following Spam Controversy
- Path Social Networking App Settles FTC Charges it Deceived Consumers and Improperly Collected Personal Information from Users' Mobile Address Books
- Google Glass Picks Up Early Signal: Keep Out—"The wearable computer is prompting questions of whether it will distract drivers, upend relationships and strip people of what little privacy they still have in public." NYT
- Google Glass: Obnoxious and invasive at any price
- Google Glass privacy: It's actually the world's worst surveillance device
- The Real Privacy Implications of Google Glass
- Google Glass censors swearing, no way to turn filter off
- Facial Recognition Comes to Google Glass
- Judge smash: Prenda's porn-trolling days are over—"Prenda lawyers take the Fifth. And a federal judge will assume the worst."
- Things go from bad to worse for the beleaguered Prenda Law
- Judge Asks IRS, Feds to Investigate Copyright-Trolling Attorneys—Still time for a litle more popcorn.
