Google has denied the need to modify its privacy policy to accommodate Glass, leaving a US government privacy panel frustrated and feeling the search giant left questions “not adequately answered” in its response. The Google letter, a four page document sent to the Congressional Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus on June 7, came after the committee demanded
PRISM whistleblower Edward Snowden has blasted the US government and President Obama for “deception” and trying to sabotage his right to asylum, as news breaks that the former NSA contractor has withdrawn his application for asylum in Russia. Snowden, who made headlines last month when he revealed confidential details on how the US security services
The Washington Post has unearthed more slides describing the US government’s PRISM surveillance program
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International tensions over the NSA’s PRISM monitoring program continue to grow, with federal prosecutors in Germany revealing they are ramping up for a potential investigation into whether the US government has broken German law. The preliminary inquiries are to “achieve a reliable factual basis” on the extent of PRISM and similar programs harvesting electronic data
After getting upset about the fact that Guardian has been breaking news and leaking classified documents about the many and varied spying programs of the NSA, the US Army has decided to block access to the news site among its employees.
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Privacy has been a hot-button topic of late, no more so than in the area of telecommunications. Perhaps as a response to these concerns, the FCC voted today for a Declaratory Ruling that all carriers must safeguard the private data in their customers’ mobile devices. This data is known as customer proprietary network information (CPNI) and consists of metadata like phone numbers, call duration, call locations and call logs. Providers are supposed to protect such data already, but until today that only applied to the network — now phones are covered under it as well. Carriers are still allowed to collect the information for network support purposes, but all precautions must be met so it’s not compromised. It appears that third-party apps and services aren’t covered under the ruling, and there aren’t any strict regulations on how the CPNI may be gathered or protected. Still, the FCC made it clear that if any of the data is compromised, the carriers would have some serious ‘splainin to do. To learn more about the ruling, check out the press release after the break.
Via: Fierce Wireless
Source: FCC
Last week, Facebook faced one of those difficult security problems that companies usually have to face once in a while. The social network reported that a security bug left approximately six million users’ information exposed, namely email addresses and phone numbers. However, it seems the problem goes much deeper than that. Security research firm Packet
The FBI has been sued by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for access to its biometrics database, arguing that the US agency has failed to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests and is gathering face-recognition data, among other things, with no external governance. The lawsuit, which follows grudging FBI confirmation that it is deploying
Do you ever get the feeling that there just isn’t enough stuff to watch on Netflix? You’re going through the catalog every night and the same movies keep popping up. That’s why we should all sign up for the fake NSA Flix. Official Comedy imagined a streaming service that holds all the information the NSA digs up on us.
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Skype‘s own hunt for stability, not clandestine aims for call tapping, forced the significant infrastructure changes that led to speculation Microsoft and the NSA were spying on VoIP, the company’s principle architect has insisted. Matthew Kaufman, now a Microsoft employee following the VoIP company’s acquisition, took to the IP mailing list to address concerns of
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