The race to turn everyday vehicles into vast, data-collecting repositories is becoming a great technological opportunity for legacy carmakers. But in order to earn the enthusiasm of consumers, automakers and startups must first earn their trust.
Category: Privacy, Surveillance, & Security
Home Computers Connected to the Internet Aren’t Private, Court Rules
A judge in Virginia rules that people should have no expectation of privacy on their home PCs because no connected computer “is immune from invasion.”
Other courts have found the opposite. The Ninth Circuit, for example, held in 2007 that just connecting a computer to the network does not undermine a user’s “subjective expectation of privacy and an objectively reasonable expectation of privacy in his personal computer.”
Source: Home Computers Connected to the Internet Aren’t Private, Court Rules
US Customs wants to collect social media account names at the border | The Verge
Yesterday, US Customs and Border Protection entered a new proposal into the federal register, suggesting a new field in which persons entering the country can declare their various social media accounts and screen names.
Source: US Customs wants to collect social media account names at the border | The Verge
Tech Companies Fight Back After Years of Being Deluged With Secret FBI Requests – The Intercept
Last year, the FBI issued nearly 13,000 national security letters. Only a handful, including the three redacted Yahoo letters, have been disclosed in any form to the public — because each letter comes with a gag order attached.
Source: Tech Companies Fight Back After Years of Being Deluged With Secret FBI Requests – The Intercept
Important infos about app.seafile.de and licensing purchases through our web shops – Seafile
PayPal has demanded that we monitor data traffic as well as all our customers’ files for illegal content. They have also asked us to provide them with detailed statistics about the files types of our customers sync and share on https://app.seafile.de
Since complying with this demand would violate German / European data protection laws (and also be morally wrong in our opinion) we have declined to comply with this demand.
Source: Important infos about app.seafile.de and licensing purchases through our web shops – Seafile