Salon: Did the FBI cook up a fake bomb plot?
Justin Elliot explains how the recent Washington Metro bomb plot case involved questionable use of a paid FBI informant. Story here.
Unmasking an Internet User, Piece by Piece
An impressive and impressively terrifying walk-through of the process of discovering all there is to discover about an internet user, starting with only their IP and email address.
Firesheep Evolved
Shorter but not necessarily sweeter: Idiocy
Facebook Privacy: Gay Users Outed to Advertisers
Article via Ars Technica in which researchers discovered that Facebook may inadvertently be outing gay users to its advertisers. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/10/more-privacy-headaches-for-facebook-gay-users-outed-to-advertisers.ars
Chief Justice John Roberts doesn’t read EULAs either
In a recent appearance at Canisius College, Chief Justice John Roberts addressed two interesting questions from the floor. One concerned the issue of televised oral arguments. Roberts expressed concern about…
There’s One in Every Crowd
Right on time for Halloween, a spooky post reminding us that creepy people offline + creepy people online = creepy people across domains. It never hurts to remember to always…
More on Street View
So, there has been a fair amount of talk about Google's Street View faux pas. Apparently, the data breach was more significant than some had anticipated. Apparently, among the bits…
Facebook’s Lobbying
Probably a good idea to keep an eye on lobbying efforts. Not that we don't all do this anyway, but it's the kind of thing that can fall under the…
HTML5 and Mobile Tracking
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…
Smart grid technology and privacy
Smart grid technology offers major improvements and efficiencies for our power system, creating a dynamically responsive grid that can do things like manage peak load energy consumption, optimize transmission routes,…