Category

Privacy

• 08.21.07
  E-Voting Raises Privacy Issues
  Privacy, Politics, Law (0)

  If you're curious who voted for which candidate, now you have a way to look that data up - at least in Ohio. According to CNet,  e-voting machines made by Election Systems and Software time stamp their paper trails. Those paper trails along with voter sign-in records are publically available to ...
  
  
• 08.20.07
  How Technology Allows Us To Spy on Big Brother
  Privacy, Politics, Computers (0)

  Tech President has a great commentary on William Gibson's NPR talk where he mentioned that technology not only allows Big Brother to watch us, but we also have the tools to watch Big Brother. Micah Sifry then points out some of the ways technology is working to help us out ...
  
  
• 08.16.07
  Appeals Court to Decide Fate of NSA Surveillance Lawsuits
  Privacy, Politics, Law (0)

  Ryan Singel and David Kravets live blogged the US 9th Circuit hearing on the NSA's spying and AT&T's alleged role in it. The back story is that the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) accused AT&T of collaborating with the NSA to illegally track domestic and foreign communications. The Justice Dept wants ...
  
  
• 08.14.07
  Do You Know Who Your Online ‘Friends’ Are?
  Internet, Privacy, Online Marketing (1)

  Who do you 'friend' on social networks? IT security firm Sophos found that after creating a fake profile and sending out friend requests randomly to 200 Facebook members, 82 gave 'Freddi' access to their personal information like email addresses, birthday, address and school or work info. Personally, I'm more willing to ...
  
  

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