Many privacy researchers and activists are up in arms about Google's policy on anonymity and its hot new social media service, Google+. The company has deleted entire Google accounts of people it says are using false names. Given the kinds of information people store in their Google cloud, people are seriously concerned and are taking their fight to the internet, hoping to convince the goliath to shift gears.
Wired.com's Spencer Ackerman has quite the scoop: it turns out the FBI was using questionably anti-Islam training materials as recently as 2009. A must read.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports that various Latin American countries have been engaged in extremely invasive political spying over the past five years.
In Sunday's Boston Globe, columnist Kevin Cullen finally, publicly asks some questions that Boston residents have been asking for years. What did Mr. Mueller know about the FBI's involvement with Whitey Bulger, and for how long did he know it? And perhaps more importantly, why is Mr. Mueller on his way to having his term as director of the FBI extended, given the agency's ugly history with long-term directors, and Mr.
Data centers are power hungry beasts of buildings. The federal government is looking to save some money, and so they are consolidating their information warehouses.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center is suing the NSA to find out what kind of technical standards the agency is developing for spying on internet traffic. A judge has allowed the NSA to say that it won't confirm or deny that it is working with Google to develop such a system.
After Bin Laden was assassinated, a Tacoma, Washington 7th grader, Timi Robertson, posted to his Facebook page. He suggested that President Obama should be careful and lookout for retaliation in the form of suicide bombings.
Then the Secret Service showed up at his middle school. He was pulled out of class and interrogated without his parents present.