Peru’s Online Crime Bill Harms Innovation and Privacy
The Peruvian National Anthem proudly proclaims: “We are free! May we always be so!” Yet the Peruvian Congress is considering a sweeping new computer crime bill that threatens the privacy and online free expression of law-abiding Peruvians. Peruvians should stand against this ill-conceived bill that will place limits on...
The Guy Adams Case Demonstrates Twitter's Need for an Appeals Process
UPDATE: Twitter has issued an apology to Guy Adams and clarified that they did "mess up" by notifying NBC about the tweet. They do, however, continue to claim that the tweet in question violated their Rules despite a sentence that states: "If information was previously posted or displayed elsewhere...
No Digital Big Brother: Keep the Military Out of Your Email
This is it: after months of pitched battles, the Senate is set to vote on cybersecurity this week. Hundreds of thousands of Internet users have spoken out, and Senators listened. The Cybersecurity Act of 2012 has privacy safeguards that don’t exist in any other cybersecurity bill.
But everything could change in the next 5 days.
Why The NSA Can’t Be Trusted to Run U.S. Cybersecurity Programs
This week, the Senate will be voting on a slew of amendments to the newest version of the Senate’s cybersecurity bill. Senators John McCain and Kay Bailey Hutchison have proposed several amendments that would hand the reins of our nation’s cybersecurity systems to the National Security Agency (NSA). All...
Press Freedom Under Attack In Sri Lanka: Website Office Raids and Online Content Regulation
Press freedom in Sri Lanka has come under further attack over the course of the past month. On June 29, the Criminal Investigation Department’s Colombo Crime Division raided the office shared by news websites Sri Lanka Mirror and Sri Lanka X News. The latter website is widely known as...
Judge Grants Internet Archive's Motion and Blocks Enforcement of New Washington Statute
Seattle - Today, a federal district court judge granted a motion by the Internet Archive to block enforcement of an overbroad Washington state anti-sex trafficking statute that could make online service providers criminally liable for providing access to third parties' offensive materials.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is representing...
Israel’s Biometric Database Deemed “Harmful” by High Court Justices
In Israel, a heated debate is underway about whether Israel’s Interior Ministry will move ahead with the creation of a governmental biometric database containing digital fingerprints and facial photographs, which would be linked to “smart” national ID cards containing microchips. At the heart of the issue is a major...
Red Flag On Biometrics: Iris Scanners Can Be Tricked
At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas this week, Javier Galbally revealed that it’s possible to spoof a biometric iris scanning system using synthetic images derived from real irises. The Madrid-based security researcher’s talk is timely, coming on the heels of a July 23 Israeli...
Rep. Hank Johnson's AppRights Seeks Feedback on Mobile Privacy
It's always heartening to see Congressmen make efforts to stand up for privacy rights. Yesterday, Rep. Hank Johnson launched AppRights.us, a website dedicated to promoting privacy, security, and transparency around mobile apps. Operating under the motto that "our apps should serve us—not spy on us," Johnson's website asks for...
