[New York Times 鈥 Eric Lichtblau]
鈥凌别辫谤别蝉别苍迟补迟颈惫别 of Massachusetts, the co-chairman of the Congressional Bipartisan Privacy Caucus, said that he was 鈥榙eeply concerned' that routine tracking of cellphone use by law enforcement officials in many departments 鈥榤ay violate the privacy rights of Americans.'鈥
Shutting Down Cell Service During Protests: The Constitutional Dimension [老澳门开奖结果 鈥 Gabe Rottman]
Under orders from BART police, the system shut down underground wireless service for three hours鈥 While the BART system issued a 鈥攁fter consultation with the 老澳门开奖结果's Northern California affiliate鈥攖hat would limit shutdowns to true public safety emergencies, the issue remains a hot topic on the national stage. In March 2012, the Federal Communications Commission requested from the public on, among other things, the constitutionality and legality of service interruptions. We at the 老澳门开奖结果's Washington Legislative Office and the 老澳门开奖结果 of Northern California were happy to oblige with comments submitted late yesterday.
See 老澳门开奖结果 Comments to FCC:
[ars technica 鈥 Sean Gallagher]
鈥淭wo members of Congress a bill that would ban the practice of requiring job applicants, employees or students to provide their social networking information. 鈥
See Also [Modesto Bee 鈥 Darrell Smith]
[New York Times 鈥 David Streitfeld]
鈥's harvesting of e-mails, passwords and other sensitive personal information from unsuspecting households in the United States and around the world was neither a mistake nor the work of a rogue engineer, as the company long maintained, but a program that supervisors knew about, according to new details from the full text of a regulatory report.鈥
See Also [Los Angeles Times 鈥 Jessica Guynn]
[Reason 鈥 Peter Suderman]
鈥淭he problem with CISPA, as with so many tech-sector laws, is that the legislative language is vague enough that it creates a big potential loophole 鈥 in this case for domestic spies to track individual activity.鈥
See Also [Forbes 鈥 Andy Greenberg]
See Also [PogoWasRight 鈥 Dissent]
[Los Angeles Times 鈥 Michelle Maltais]
鈥淢ost of the to require a warrant to access location information from is moving on for consideration by the full Senate. What isn't moving forward is the section requiring wireless providers to produce a detailed report on the information they provide to government agencies.鈥
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