Rejected From College Because Of Your Facebook Profile?: “We’ve all seen the stories about potential dates or employers scanning your social network profiles to decide what they think of you, but what about your potential…
Police drop BT-Phorm probe: “ ‘Move along please, nothing to see’ Exclusive City of London Police have decided not to formally investigate BT and Phorm for their allegedly illegal secret ISP-level adware trials, arguing that…
Data protection watchdogs to hold hearings with Google: “An influential group of European privacy experts said this week that it will lead hearings with Google over the search giant’s claim that EU data protection laws…
UK government responds on Phorm: “A controversial ad-serving system can be rolled out in the UK but only under strict guidelines, says the government.” (Via BBC News.)
Bill seeks guidelines for US laptop searches: “ Some rules for border agents, please US border agents can still snatch and search your laptop, mobile phone, or hard drive without reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing. But…
IPhone Takes Screenshots of Everything You Do Says Hacker: “In a webcast Thursday, iPhone hacker and data-forensics expert Jonathan Zdziarski explained that the iPhone stores a screenshot of everything you do — and that these…
BT’s secret Phorm trials: UK.gov responds: “ EU lawyers mull action Exclusive The European Commission is analysing the government’s explanation of why UK authorites have taken no action over BT and Phorm’s allegedly illegal broadband…
French storm the bastille over ‘Sarkozy’s Big Sister’ database: “ Je ne suis pas un nombre Imagine, if you will, an announcement by the UK Government that it is going to create a new database…
British Firm Phorm Trudges Through the Deep Packet Storm: “Deep packet inspection — the secret harvesting of granular details about individual internet activity so companies can make better guesses about what to sell you —…
Bits: Dealing With I.S.P. Snooping: “A law professor argues that Internet providers are probably violating wiretap laws if they monitor the surfing of their users for advertising, but he still proposes making the laws even…