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Global Voices Online » Serbia: New Instructions and Law Regulations on Online Privacy

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:07:04 -0000

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Facebook photo makes him a jailbird - social networking sites being used in the court room

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:52:11 -0000

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Young women drink, party, post - CNN.com

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:43:26 -0000

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"You need to be able to laugh at yourself sometimes."

'That's who I am,'

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Court Ruling Will Expose Viewing Habits of YouTube Users | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:42:12 -0000

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U.S. Government Sought Customer Book Purchasing Records from Amazon.com

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:47:54 -0000

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TG Daily - Geek Squad lawsuit opens up with employee confession

Mon, 05 May 2008 20:17:38 -0000

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Bill would penalize companies for aiding Internet censorship

Sat, 03 May 2008 03:50:04 -0000

US-based companies could be held liable for helping officials in other countries censor the Internet, if a bill proposed by House Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) is approved. Smith recently announced his plans to push the Global Online Freedom Act (HR 275) to the House floor for voting after having lobbied human rights organization Reporters Without Borders for support. Among other things, the Global Online Freedom Act will bar US companies from disclosing personally-identifiable information about a user, except for "legitimate foreign law enforcement purposes."

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Yahoo was embarrassed by human rights group Dui Hua soon thereafter after the group published a translation of the Chinese government's request for one dissident's information that clearly stated the nature of the investigation. This infuriated members of Congress, as it appeared to show that Yahoo had lied about what it knew. Yahoo apologized for the "misunderstanding," but Congress remained unimpressed.

Among other things, the Act appears to be a direct response to the furor over Yahoo's involvement in outing a number of Chinese dissidents to the government, resulting in their arrest and imprisonment. At least two Chinese pro-Democracy advocates have filed lawsuits against Yahoo for turning over their e-mails to the government, but Yahoo has said repeatedly that it simply complied with the requests of local law enforcement and was not aware of the nature of the investigations.

The Global Online Freedom Act would not only prevent companies like Yahoo from giving up the goods to totalitarian regimes, but would also prohibit US-based Internet companies from blocking online content from US government or government-financed web sites in other countries. When it comes to non-government sites, the Act would require companies to disclose to the newly-created Office of Global Internet Freedom the terms that they do filter, and for the Office to continually monitor these filtered terms.

econdly, you guessed it—the bill has a convenient exit plan for anyone who tries to apply its rules to the United States. The President would have the authority to waive the provisions of the Act as long as "the important national interest of the United States requires the exercise of such waiver authority."

As TechDirt points out, the US has done its own share of requesting data for questionable purposes, such as when it subpoenaed Google for 1 million random web addresses and all search records from an unspecified one-week period. It wouldn't be surprising to see the US waive the Act in the name of national security at the drop of the hat, so it seems dubious that our government would be take on the responsibility of holding others to these standards.

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Israeli soldier jailed for Facebook photo - vnunet.com

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:42:39 -0000

A member of the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) has been jailed for 19 days after posting a picture of himself on Facebook without permission.

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Swift Kick Central: Teaching The Google Effect and Digital Identities

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:56:36 -0000

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Couple Suing Google Over Google Maps | Chatter Shmatter - Breaking News From Around The World

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:52:07 -0000

When Google launched its Google Maps, Pentagon said the images on the site could pose a threat to national security. Now, a couple from western Pennsylvania believes that the company’s “Street View” has violated their privacy.

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The couple stated that not only did the images from Google’s Street View caused their family distress, it also devalued their property.

In 2007, Google added the “Street View” feature to Google maps, allowing users to glimpse various views in cities throughout the United States from ground level. Although this feature is only being offered in the U.S., the company has plans to make this feature functional worldwide.

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The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:14:40 -0000

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apophenia: how youth find privacy in interstitial spaces

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:14:17 -0000

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Facebook CEO Apologizes, Lets Users Turn Off Beacon

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:45:22 -0000

Just one month after Facebook launched Beacon, a controversial advertising platform, the company has scaled back its plans and humbly apologized for stomping on its users' privacy.

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When Mom or Dad Asks To Be a Facebook 'Friend' - washingtonpost.com

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:02:41 -0000

When Matt Florian signed onto his Facebook account recently to check the status of his 400-plus friends, he had a friend request.

It was from his dad.

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BBC NEWS | Americas | Pentagon bans Google map-makers

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:30:04 -0000

The US defence department has banned the giant internet search engine Google from filming inside and making detailed studies of US military bases.

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Whistle-Blower: Feds Have a High-Speed Backdoor Into Wireless Carrier -- Update | Threat Level from Wired.com

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:34:36 -0000

A U.S. government office in Quantico, Virginia, has direct, high-speed access to a major wireless carrier's systems, exposing customers' voice calls, data packets and physical movements to uncontrolled surveillance, according to a computer security consultant who says he worked for the carrier in late 2003.

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Pasdar won't name the wireless carrier in question, but his claims are nearly identical to unsourced allegations made in a federal lawsuit filed in 2006 against four phone companies and the U.S. government for alleged privacy violations. That suit names Verizon Wireless as the culprit.

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The Future of Reputation: Gossip, rumor, and privacy on the Internet - Daniel J. Solove

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:16:06 -0000

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When Surveillance Cameras Talk - TIME

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:31:07 -0000

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Why does AT&T want to know what you're downloading? - By Tim Wu - Slate Magazine

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:35:51 -0000

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How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook -- Facebook -- InformationWeek

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:41:55 -0000

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