Obama Faces Major Online Privacy Test 72
CNET has a piece on the prospects for an initiative to revamp privacy law for the digital age being put forward by an unlikely coalition that includes Microsoft, Google, privacy advocates, and conservative and libertarian organizations. "When Barack Obama was campaigning for the presidency in 2008, he promised that as president, he would 'strengthen privacy protections for the digital age.' That pledge will be put to the test as the Obama administration considers whether to support a new privacy proposal released by a coalition including Google, eBay, Microsoft, AT&T, the ACLU, and Americans for Tax Reform... The [so-called] Digital Due Process coalition already has met with attorneys from the Justice Department's computer crime unit, White House attorneys, FBI representatives, and Commerce Department officials... the law enforcement meetings were 'respectful' and 'substantive.'"
Their priciples (Score:5, Informative)
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1. The government should obtain a search warrant based on probable cause before it can compel a service provider to disclose a user’s private communications or documents stored online.
2. The government should obtain a search warrant based on probable cause before it can track, prospectively or retrospectively, the location of a cell phone or other mobile communications device.
3.Before obtaining transactional data in real time about when and with whom an individual communicates using email, instant messaging, text messaging, the telephone or any other communications technology, the government should demonstrate to a court that such data is relevant to an authorized criminal investigation.
4.Before obtaining transactional data about multiple unidentified users of communications or other online services when trying to track down a suspect, the government should first demonstrate to a court that the data is needed for its criminal investigation.
What? (Score:1, Informative)
[quote]strengthen privacy protections for the digital age[/quote]
Yeah, maybe for government agencies and big business.
Re:Define rules (Score:2, Informative)
The EFF is a member [digitaldueprocess.org]. With that said, take a look at the URL. That giant code raises all kinds of red flags about tracking who posted the link.
Re:Double Speak (Score:2, Informative)
Re:A good step forward, but... (Score:4, Informative)
Dear Mr. Obama (Score:4, Informative)
Here are the answers for your Major Online Privacy Test:
1) A
2) D
3) B
4) F
5) B
6) C
7) D
8) A
9) B
10) A
11) D
12) E
13) B
14) A
15) C
Bad move - missing URLS (Score:5, Informative)
It was mine to begin with.
I just happened to hit "Reply" in the wrong thread and wanted to move where appropriate. I fucked up the copy-paste. And of course it does look the same in the preview pane, which didn't help.
Here are the missing links :
- Adium : http://adium.im/ [adium.im]
- Pidgin : http://pidgin.im/ [pidgin.im]
- OTR: http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/ [cypherpunks.ca]
- plugins downloads : http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/index.php#downloads [cypherpunks.ca] middle column. It offers a Windows installer. For Linux there's source code (I use it), but it should be much simpler to use the package provided by your distribution's repository (it's in OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Debian and Gentoo. Don't know about the others)
(Checking in preview pane : Yup this time I didn't fuck up the URLs ;-) )