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Symposium – No Strings Attached: US Internet Governance in an Increasingly Global World

JScott February 22, 2012 12:58 pm 0Comments

February 24, 2012, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South The New York University Journal of Legislation & Public Policy and Journal of Law & Liberty…

Researcher’s Video Shows Secret Software on Millions of Phones Logging Everything

JScott November 30, 2011 2:50 pm 0Comments

"The Android developer who raised the ire of a mobile-phone monitoring company last week is on the attack again, producing a video of how the Carrier IQ software secretly installed…

FTC Finally Goes After Flash Cookies

JScott November 8, 2011 1:26 pm 0Comments

The FTC and ScanScout came to a settlement over ScanScout's deceptive use of Flash cookies.  ScanScout used Flash cookies to track users, but its privacy policy merely stated a user…

Homeland Security moves forward with ‘pre-crime’ detection

JScott October 8, 2011 7:17 pm 0Comments

Documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center through a Freedom of Information Act request show that the Department of Homeland Security is moving forward with a program called Future…

iPhone and iPad Store Location Data of Everywhere You Go

JScott April 20, 2011 12:20 pm 0Comments

Researchers Pete Warden and Alasdair Allan have discovered a file on the iPhone and 3G-enabled iPads that contain the "latitude and longitude of the phone's recorded coordinates along with a…

Supreme Court Backs Government Transparency Over Corporate Privacy Claims

JScott March 3, 2011 3:50 pm 0Comments

In FCC v. AT&T, AT&T argued it was a "corporate citizen" entitled to "personal privacy" and thus, entitled to the FOIA exemption that protects an individual's private data.  AT&T was…

Social Network Monitoring

JScott November 8, 2010 8:57 am 0Comments

From article: "New software released by Cisco Systems Inc. on Wednesday makes it much easier for banks, retailers, and other businesses -- including your employer -- to monitor the mountain…

HTML5 and Mobile Tracking

JScott October 21, 2010 12:03 am 0Comments

From Ars Technica Article: "A New York-based mobile-web advertising company was hit Wednesday with a proposed class action lawsuit over its use of an HTML5 trick to track iPhone and…

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