Tag: Privacy

Regardless of the outcome of the presidential election, Americans can expect less privacy. (AP Photos)

National Security

Regardless of the election, Americans can expect less privacy

Anthony Gregory · August 5, 2016 3:59 pm

Oliver Stone: Smartphones can ‘burn your life to the ground’

Rudy Takala · August 4, 2016 4:13 am

Scorecard finds that no police department fully met all eight criteria the group looks at. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

National Security

Civil rights group: Police fail to protect privacy with body camera programs

Kelly Cohen · August 2, 2016 7:59 pm

Ron Johnson faces a stiff re-election challenge in Wisconsin from former Sen. Russell Feingold (pictured), a Democrat who has opposed cyberlegislation on privacy grounds. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)

Senate cyberhawks face tough re-election battles

Charlie Mitchell · July 25, 2016 7:30 pm

Officials had been seeking records related to 21 accounts associated with 9 suspected perpetrators. (iStock photo)

National Security

Judge denies Internet surveillance order from feds

Rudy Takala · July 20, 2016 12:10 pm

Franken's letter grilled Niantic on why it is collecting user information and how it intends to use it. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

Franken concerned about ‘Pokemon Go’ data mining

Joshua Axelrod · July 12, 2016 10:34 pm

The proposal's own Democratic author was skeptical, saying the proposal had become "too complicated." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

FCC’s privacy plan draws scorn from thousands

Rudy Takala · July 6, 2016 5:46 pm

Regardless of Brexit, analysts quickly surmised that the U.K. and companies operating there will be bound by EU cybersecurity rules that U.S. industry groups see as overly prescriptive and punitive.

Brexit won’t affect U.S.-U.K. cyberalliance

Charlie Mitchell · July 5, 2016 4:01 am

—œIt has become increasingly clear that, for third-party box providers, the real value is not in producing or selling the box but in the data that the box will collect,—£ Harry Reid wrote. (AP Photo)

Reid criticizes FCC plan to let tech companies in on cable box market

Rudy Takala · June 21, 2016 5:55 pm

Many in the telecom sector and Republicans on Capitol Hill believe the FCC has reversed course with the privacy proposal, which is related to its highly controversial order on "open access" to the Internet. (AP Photo)

Critics decry FCC overreach on Internet service providers

Charlie Mitchell · June 20, 2016 4:01 am

It's all terribly easy for hackers to run a program and churn out passwords for thousands of people with just the tiniest bit of information in hand.

Can we move past password-based cybersecurity?

Charlie Mitchell · June 15, 2016 2:57 pm

"[W]ith great reluctance, I have requested that Chairman Grassley withdraw the ECPA Amendments Act from the markup agenda until such time as we can proceed without risking that this bill actually decrease the privacy of our citizens," said Sen. Mike Lee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP split delays email privacy bill in the Senate

Joel Gehrke · June 9, 2016 11:50 pm