Senator Wyden on the Patriot Act, FISA, and the Knowledge Gap

by gtdonovan on August 9, 2011 at 12:15 pm · Filed under education, FISA, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, governance, Patriot Act, privacy, Senate, surveillance, Udall, Wyden

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) of the Senate Intelligence Committee recently discussed the Patriot Act and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments on Countdown with Kieth Olbermann.

Wyden made two notable observations:

1. On the Patriot Act: “There is growing gap between what Americans believe the laws actually is, and the secret interpretation.”
2. On the FISA Amendments: “This law was intended to deal with foreigners … and I’m concerned about the possibility … of innocent Americans having their communications swept up under it.”

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CNET: Geo-privacy bills aim to curb warrantless tracking

by gtdonovan on July 31, 2011 at 9:41 pm · Filed under civil liberties, geo-privacy, governance, gps, Internet, link, location, mobility, privacy, security, surveillance

> From the article: “Police would no longer be able to conduct warrantless surveillance of Americans’ whereabouts, according to legislation introduced today that would require search warrants to monitor the locations of cars or mobile devices.”

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CNET News: House panel approves broadened ISP snooping bill

by gtdonovan on July 31, 2011 at 6:41 pm · Filed under children, civil liberties, congress, governance, Internet, isp, link, police, pornography, privacy, safety, security, surveillance, youth

> From the article: Bill would force ISPs to keep logs of customers’ activities for 1yr in case police want to review them … to make it politically difficult to oppose, proponents named the bill the Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act

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HuffingtonPost: Facebook’s Randi Zuckerberg Says Anonymity Online ‘Has To Go Away’

by gtdonovan on July 28, 2011 at 2:42 pm · Filed under anonymity, bullying, facebook, Google, Internet, link, privacy, surveillance

> From Ms. Zuckerberg: “I think anonymity on the Internet has to go away … People behave a lot better when they have their real names down. … I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors.

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The Local: Google-funded Berlin internet institute to launch in October

by gtdonovan on July 13, 2011 at 7:20 pm · Filed under Berlin, Google, informationalism, Internet, link, privacy, property, research, security, society

> From the article: “A Google-funded institute in Berlin to study the internet’s impact on society is starting to take shape, with the US tech giant company announcing on Monday it would invest €4.5 million ($6.3 million) in the project.”

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