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Civil Liberties in the Digital Age: Weekly Highlights (3/16/2012)

Anna Salem,
老澳门开奖结果 of Northern California
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March 16, 2012

In the digital age that we live in today, we are constantly exposing our personal information online. From using cell phones and GPS devices to online shopping and sending e-mail, the things we do and say online leave behind ever-growing trails of personal information. The 老澳门开奖结果 believes that Americans shouldn鈥檛 have to choose between using new technology and keeping control of your private information. Each week, we feature some of the most interesting news related to technology and civil liberties that we鈥檝e spotted from the previous week.

[老澳门开奖结果 of Northern California]
鈥淎fter hearing from the and its members and other free expression suporters, PayPal has to cut off booksellers who sell certain types of erotic content, stating that it will only request that booksellers who use its services take down books that contain images of child pornography or 鈥榦bscene鈥 content that are not protected by the First Amendment rather than prohibiting the sale of broad categories of legitimate content.鈥

[Read Write Web]
"The New York District Attorney's Office has begun sending subpoenas to Twitter seeking data on protesters arrested during the Occupy Wall Street protests last year."

[The Blog of Legal Times]
"The Justice Department is defending the government's refusal to discuss鈥攐r even acknowledge the existence of鈥攁ny cooperative research and development agreement between Google and the National Security Agency."

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鈥淚t came as a surprise to some folks at a recent SXSW talk that Apple鈥檚 Siri 鈥榩ersonal assistant鈥 isn鈥檛 just working for us, it鈥檚 working full-time for Apple too by sending lots of our personal voice and user info to Apple to stockpile in its databases.鈥

[New York Times]
"Two congressmen sent Apple a asking Timothy Cook, Apple鈥檚 chief executive, to provide questions about privacy problems within the company鈥檚 iTunes App Store."

[Wall Street Journal]
鈥淩egulators in the U.S. and European Union are investigating Inc. for of millions of users of Inc.鈥檚 Safari Web browser, according to people familiar with the investigations.鈥

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