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Civil Liberties in the Digital Age: Weekly Highlights (2/3/2012)

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Caitlin O'Neill,
Criminal Justice and Drug Policy Associate,
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February 3, 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.

[ars technica]
鈥淏ut disclosure rules affecting publicly traded companies may force Facebook to reveal privacy-related investigations that it otherwise might have kept secret.鈥
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[EFF]
鈥淯nfortunately, while the policy might be easier to understand, Google did a less impressive job of publicly explaining what in the policy had actually been changed.鈥
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[Huffington Post]
鈥淧rosecutors have subpoenaed the Twitter records of an Occupy Wall Street protester who was arrested in October during a mass protest on the Brooklyn Bridge.鈥

[Information Week]
鈥淢icrosoft wasted little time launching an effort to cash in on concerns about Google's controversial new privacy policies, under which the search giant said it would monitor user activity across all of its major Web services 鈥 including YouTube, Gmail, and its namesake search engine.鈥

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