Homeland Security is taking a closer look at Blogger. Senator for Connecticut, party-independent politician, and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee – wrote a letter addressed to Google CEO Larry Page.
Consumer Watchdog Believes Google 'WiSpy' Potentially Logged Homeland Security Data Seems auditing Google's privacy policies and actions is becoming a popular demand these days, only months after the FTC required Google to submit to bi annual...
Last week, when the Department of Homeland Security leaned on Mozilla to remove a Firefox add-on making it simple to bypass domain name seizures, we wondered at the request. Last year there was COICA, this year there is PROTECT IP, legislation in...
Consumer Watchdog Believes Google 'WiSpy' Potentially Logged Homeland Security Data France has fined Google a record €100,000 (about $142,000 U.S. This is the first fine leveled against Google after it was discovered last year that Google had...
Homeland Security Wants Internet Kill Switch by Frank Watson Susan Collins, the Republican ranking member on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, told Wired magazine that there was a need for "kill switch" legislation that...
Susan Collins, the Republican ranking member on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, told Wired magazine that there was a need for "kill switch" legislation that "would provide a mechanism for the government to work with the...
CyberMonday saw Homeland Security seize about 80 websites selling counterfeit products and providing access to pirated movies. White House intellectual property czar Victoria Espinel told a conference Monday that there will be more domain seizures...
Homeland Security Seized Torrent Domain That Gave Same Results Google Still Does by Frank Watson Homeland Security with help from ICANN has seized the domain of a torrent search site and posted a notice stating: "This domain name has been seized by...
Homeland Security with help from ICANN has seized the domain of a torrent search site and posted a notice stating: "This domain name has been seized by ICE Homeland Security Investigations, pursuant to a seizure warrant issued by a United States...
The case took a new twist a couple of weeks ago as Consumer Watchdog revealed that Google had also potentially picked up data from the home networks of members of Congress and Homeland Security officials.
Then, there's the potential impact of all the negative press on Google this quarter: for instance AdMob being blocked by Apple just as Google's buy of AdMob was cleared by regulators; its acknowledged failure in collecting payload data; the...
Jane Harman, D-CA, chair of the Intelligence Subcommittee of the Homeland Security. Wi-Fi) from the home network of a member of the Department of Homeland Security as well as from houses of members of Congress.
Well, at least until the marketing data gets stolen by identity thieves, purchased by unprincipled third-party marketing fiends, or subpoenaed by Homeland Security so they can correlate potential criminal and/or terrorist activity to little...
Get this: According to today's Wall Street Journal Washington Wire column, the inspector general's office at the Homeland Security dept.can't widely distribute new watchdog reports electronically. OK, let me get this straight, some spam slimeball...
Department of Homeland Security Chooses Atomz Search to Power its Terrorism Readiness Web Sites Notable news and announcements from the web search world during the past month. Announcements without links to online versions were received via email.
Vivmsimo Awarded National Science Foundation SBIR Grants to Develop New Capabilities for Homeland Security "With this grant we will enhance and modify our on-the-fly document clustering products to help intelligence analysts easily recognize...
Homeland Security taps privacy official. In it, I wrote of third-party tests that had been commissioned in the past to get at this. Now, the first such third-part test like this in ages has been done.
More information will presumably disappear when some government agencies cease to exist as their functions are folded into the new Department of Homeland Security. Where former Freedom of Information Act policy put the burden on the federal...
