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DOJ Wants to Know Who’s Rejecting Your Friend Requests | Electronic Frontier Foundation
In the latest turn in our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for records related to the government’s use of social networking websites , the Department of Justice finally agreed to release almost 100 pages of new records. These include draft search warrants and affidavits for Facebook and MySpace and several PowerPoint presentations and articles on how to use social networking sites for investigations.This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first. Always. | Privacy Inc. - CNET News
Nick Merrill, who challenged a demand from the FBI for user data, wants to create the world's first Internet provider designed to be surveillance-resistant.
Google: privacy
Carrier IQ: Researcher Trevor Eckhart Outs Creepy, Hidden App Installed On Smartphones (VIDEO)
A security researcher has posted a video detailing hidden software installed on smart phones that logs numerous details about users' activities. In a 17-minute video posted Monday on YouTube, Trevor Eckhart shows how the software – known as Carrier IQ – logs every text message, Google search and phone number typed on a wide variety of smart phones - including HTC, Blackberry, Nokia and others - and reports them to the mobile phone carrier.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — An embattled phone-monitoring software maker said Friday that its wares, secretly installed on some 150 million phones, have the capacity to log web usage, and to chronicle where and when and to what numbers calls and text messages were sent and received. The Carrier IQ executives, speaking at their nondescript headquarters in a residential neighborhood in the heart of Silicon Valley, told Wired that the data they vacuum to their servers from handsets is vast — as the software also monitors app deployment, battery life, phone CPU output and data and cell-site connectivity, among other things. But, they said, they are not logging every keystroke as a prominent critic suggested.
Carrier IQ Admits Holding ‘Treasure Trove’ of Consumer Data, But No Keystrokes | Threat Level | Wired.com
Since the beginning of the media frenzy over CarrierIQ, I have repeatedly stated that based on my knowledge of the software, claims that keystrokes, SMS bodies, email bodies, and other data of this nature are being collected are erroneous. I have also stated that to satisfy users, it’s important that there be increased visibility into what data is actually being collected on these devices. This post represents my findings on how CarrierIQ works, and what data it is capable of collecting.
Security Research by Dan Rosenberg
(logcat) There has been some confusion and multiple conflicting statements about the CarrierIQ issues that were highlighted in Trevor Ekharts’s initial video some weeks ago.
Overlogging (CarrierIQ)
There is no such thing as anonymous online tracking | Stanford Center for Internet and Society
A 1993 New Yorker cartoon famously proclaimed, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."
NOTE: This post has been updated to include clarifications that were made to the original study. A study released Tuesday shows that 45% of the top 185 U.S. websites transmit identifying details about their visitors to at least four outside websites.
Privacy Study: Top U.S. Websites Share Visitor Personal Data - Digits - WSJ
Security, Censorship, & Internet
La Quadrature du Net | Internet & Libertés
Philippe Aigrain, co-founder of La Quadrature du Net, in collaboration with Suzanne Aigrain, describes in his new book Sharing the creative contribution, a financial model designed to sustain an expanding creative economy in a context where sharing is recognized as a right.
(is a place of relationship and contact among people who have been dispersed by today's deep changes in society, among individuals who won't give in to the current ideological uniformity and marginality, among subjects wishing to create a real movement, capable of changing today's state of things - italia)
A/I :: radical tech collectives - www.autistici.org
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Freedom on the Net 2011
to whom it may concern I took the red pill I took it when I joined some IR - Pastebin.com
I took it when I joined some IRC servers and started to help people all over the world. I took the red pill and now I have to deal with it. What has beens seen can not be made unseen, what has been experienced can not be made unexperienced.Brad Stone at the New York Times reports on an industry group working on a new platform for portable digital movie downloads: The [ Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem or DECE] is setting out to create a common digital standard that would let consumers buy or rent a digital video once and then play it on any device... Under the proposed system, proof of digital purchases would be stored online in a so-called rights locker, and consumers would be permitted to play the movies they bought or rented on any DECE-compatible device.
slight paranoia: Who is Neustar?
UltraViolet shines light on locker in the cloud
The UltraViolet licensing programme for media, technology and service providers has now opened.information access & communication
cyber war/security
social networking: privacy/security
oim & tracking
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