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EPIC: “Bloomberg News has reported that the Federal Trade Commission has expanded its antitrust investigation of Google to include Google’s social networking service, Google+. The report comes after Google announced that it would include personal data gathered from Google+ in the results of users’ searches, a move that led EPIC to urge the FTC to …
EPIC: In a letter to the Federal Trade Commission, EPIC has called for an investigation of recent changes by Google to Google Search, the dominant search algorithm on the Internet. EPIC cited Google’s decision to include personal data, such as photos, posts, and contact details, gathered from Google+ in Google Search results. Googles business practices …
“EPIC filed the opening brief in EPIC v. NSA, No. 11-5233, challenging the National Security Agencys response to EPIC’s Freedom of Information Act request. EPIC is seeking information about the widely publicized cybersecurity agreement between the NSA and Google that followed the January 2010 China hack. The NSA claimed it “could neither confirm nor deny” …
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission has approved a biennial report to Congress focusing on the use of the Do Not Call Registry by both consumers and businesses over the past two years, as well as the impact that new technologies have had on the Registry. As detailed in the report, the Do Not Call …
“EPIC has filed a Freedom of information Act lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security to force disclosure of the details of the agency’s social network monitoring program. In news reports and a Federal Register notice, the DHS has stated that it will routinely monitor the public postings of users on Twitter and Facebook. The …
Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border: A Guide for Travelers Carrying Digital Devices, by Seth Schoen, Marcia Hofmann and Rowan Reynolds, December 2011 “Despite the lack of legal protections against the search itself, however, those concerned about the security and privacy of the information on their devices at the border can use technological measures in …
News release: “The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner, Ireland 21 December 2011 published the outcome of its audit of Facebook Ireland(FB-I) which was conducted over the last three months including on-site in Facebook Irelands Headquarters in Dublin. The report is available in 2 parts: Report of the Audit, including recommendations and the Facebook Technical …
“Have you ever wondered why some online ads you see are targeted to your tastes and interests, or how websites remember your preferences from visit to visit? The answer may be in the cookies.” A cookie is information saved by your web browser, the software program you use to visit the web. Cookies can be …
CRS Governmental Tracking of Cell Phones and Vehicles: The Confluence of Privacy, Technology, and Law. Richard M. Thompson, Law Clerk. December 1, 2011 “Technology has advanced considerably since the framers established the constitutional parameters for searches and seizures in the Fourth Amendment. What were ink quills and parchment are now cell phones and the …
Reading Digits in Natural Images with Unsupervised Feature Learning, Yuval Netzer, Tao Wang, Adam Coates, Alessandro Bissacco, Bo Wu1, Andrew Y. Ng “Detecting and reading text from natural images is a hard computer vision task that is central to a variety of emerging applications. Related problems like document character recognition have been widely studied by …
News release: “The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) has today published new guidance making it clear that information concerning official business held in private email accounts is subject to the Freedom of Information Act. Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham said: It should not come as a surprise to public authorities to have the clarification that information held …
News release: “TRUSTe, the leading online privacy solutions provider, released its first privacy index as part of its new “Privacy Pulse” information series tracking changes and trends in online privacy. In the 2011 Website Edition of its Privacy Index, TRUSTe analyzed the privacy policies of the top 100 U.S. websites (as ranked by Alexa Sept. …
