Leaked memos reveal GCHQ efforts to keep mass surveillance secret | UK news. The UK intelligence agency GCHQ has repeatedly warned it fears a "damaging public debate" on the scale of its activities because it could lead to legal challenges against its mass-surveillance programmes, classified internal documents reveal. Memos contained in the cache disclosed by the US whistleblower Edward Snowden detail the agency's long fight against making intercept evidence admissible as evidence in criminal trials – a policy supported by all three major political parties, but ultimately defeated by the UK's intelligence community.
Foremost among the reasons was a desire to minimise the potential for challenges against the agency's large-scale interception programmes, rather than any intrinsic threat to security, the documents show. The papers also reveal that: • GCHQ feared a legal challenge under the right to privacy in the Human Rights Act if evidence of its surveillance methods became admissible in court. What to Do if a Company Asks for Your Facebook Password in a Job Interview. Imagine you’ve been on the job market for about six months. You are paying your mortgage on your credit cards at this point. Your unemployment benefits are about to run out and your job prospects remain dismal, no matter what you seem to do. Finally, you land a killer opportunity, pass the phone screen and show up to an interview with a hiring manager.
Just as you think you’re about to close the deal, she spins her computer screen around and asks you to login to your Facebook account. What do you do? This is common enough that it now has a name: Shoulder Surfing. Facebook’s official statement is that shoulder surfing "undermines the privacy expectations and the security of both the user and the user's friends" and "potentially exposes the employer who seeks this access to unanticipated legal liability. " The ruling, made by the FTC in May, 2011, was that companies can use social media information as part of a background check, but this information must be available from public databases. Microsoft Reports: What ‘the Law’ Is Asking of Internet Companies | Blog. Dunstan Allison Hope, Managing Director, Advisory Services, BSR Yesterday, Microsoft published its first Law Enforcement Requests Report, disclosing the number and nature of requests law-enforcement agencies globally have asked Microsoft regarding its online and cloud services—and how the company responded to those requests.
The relationship between companies and law-enforcement agencies is a complex one, especially since the activities of law-enforcement agencies can both protect human rights (such as by clamping down on human trafficking) or violate them (such as by using personal data to suppress political speech). It can be tricky for business to navigate this relationship, so I warmly welcome Microsoft’s transparency as a powerful tool in helping society better understand how the company makes decisions about when to reveal information and which information to share. I would like to see four things: How Facebook could get you arrested | Technology | The Observer. Know How: BY 2025 WE COULD HAVE 20 MILLION JOBS WITHOUT ENOUGH COLLEGE GRADUATES TO FILL THEM* As history has clearly demonstrated, there is a need for skilled professionals to maintain the safety of sensitive information and to counteract security breaches.
And in today’s world, that need is greater than ever. Cyber security jobs are growing at one of the fastest rates in the country.[22] Perhaps the positive job outlook will help change the course of history in the years to come. Become a cyber-crusader. If preventing online information security breaches is a career path that interests you, contact DeVry University to learn about degree programs that can help you get there. How to camouflage yourself from facial recognition technology. The day when you’ll be able to hold up your phone and identify a stranger through a viewfinder is getting closer. Google’s Goggles, a mobile app for visual search, has a facial recognition version unreleased to the public, while Israeli startup Face.com’s technology can tag people’s faces in Facebook photos. Facebook even released a basic version of face detection last night, although it doesn’t have recognition. So in a world where technology chips away at our ability to remain anonymous, how does one reclaim some semblance of control?
It turns out there’s actually a pretty simple way around the facial recognition technology available in the market today, according to Adam Harvey, a graduate student at NYU’s ITP (the same program that produced Foursquare chief executive Dennis Crowley and that Twitter’s location guru Raffi Krikorian taught at). “It breaks apart the gestalt of the face,” he said. Harvey says there a couple of projects that could stem from idea.