Over the weekend, the City of Cambridge released a draft surveillance oversight ordinance. Today at 2pm the Public Safety Committee of the City Council will hold a hearing on the draft, and take comments from the public and interested organizations. The ACLU...
Communities across the nation are fighting for control over police surveillance, and now’s the time to act in Cambridge to pass a strong local law requiring it. Facial recognition, drones, license plate readers, biometric finger print readers, surveillance cameras, social media monitoring...
Unfortunately, Congress has begun scratching an old, FBI-inspired itch again. Staffers on the Senate Judiciary Committee, with the support of chair Senator Chuck Grassley and ranking democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein, are reportedly in talks with technology companies about legislation that would most...
In the digital 21st century, large tech companies shape the decisions we make and the information we consume, in ways that are impossible for the ordinary user to see or understand. The algorithms that determine which information will be shown to which...
States across the country, including Massachusetts, are considering legislation to ban internet service providers (ISPs) from collecting or selling their customers’ sensitive information—like browsing histories—without opt-in user consent. (Take action to support the Massachusetts bill!) But according to Cloudflare, you don’t have to...
Today the Massachusetts Special Senate Committee on Net Neutrality and Consumer Protection meets to discuss critical law reform regarding internet service providers’ (ISPs) use of consumer data. ISPs have access to mountains of personal information including our browsing history, personal and professional...
The Cambridge Analytica and Facebook scandal has woken the United States up to the seedy underbelly of online advertising markets. Unless we take action soon, this problem will only get worse. Thankfully, states like Massachusetts are considering legislation that would protect consumers...
Legislation recently proposed in the senate would give US and foreign governments unprecedented access to our real-time communications and sensitive personal information stored on the servers of private companies like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. On February 6th, Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Chris...
CFPB SCALES BACK EQUIFAX INVESTIGATION AND WARREN SLAMS BACK From Vox: Elizabeth Warren warns Equifax could “wiggle off the hook” for users’ credit data getting hacked On Wednesday, Senator Elizabeth Warren released a report condemning Equifax for a lackluster response to its...
AFTERMATH OF THE NUNES MEMO: SCHUMER HITS BACK From Politico: House Intel members: Release the FISA application After the controversial release of the Nunes Memo on Friday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer urged Trump to allow the House Democrats to release a...
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Cambridge Surveillance Oversight Ordinance, Draft and ACLU Comments
Over the weekend, the City of Cambridge released a draft surveillance oversight ordinance. Today at 2pm the Public Safety Committee of the City Council will hold a hearing on the draft, and take comments from the public and interested organizations. The ACLU...
Add your voice, Cambridge: Demand community control over police surveillance!
Communities across the nation are fighting for control over police surveillance, and now’s the time to act in Cambridge to pass a strong local law requiring it. Facial recognition, drones, license plate readers, biometric finger print readers, surveillance cameras, social media monitoring...
FBI cannot access all sorts of information, and that’s totally ok
Unfortunately, Congress has begun scratching an old, FBI-inspired itch again. Staffers on the Senate Judiciary Committee, with the support of chair Senator Chuck Grassley and ranking democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein, are reportedly in talks with technology companies about legislation that would most...
We just got one step closer to understanding black box algorithms
In the digital 21st century, large tech companies shape the decisions we make and the information we consume, in ways that are impossible for the ordinary user to see or understand. The algorithms that determine which information will be shown to which...
Cloudflare says its new DNS will make it harder for ISPs to snoop on your data
States across the country, including Massachusetts, are considering legislation to ban internet service providers (ISPs) from collecting or selling their customers’ sensitive information—like browsing histories—without opt-in user consent. (Take action to support the Massachusetts bill!) But according to Cloudflare, you don’t have to...
Massachusetts should become the first state to mandate consumer internet privacy
Today the Massachusetts Special Senate Committee on Net Neutrality and Consumer Protection meets to discuss critical law reform regarding internet service providers’ (ISPs) use of consumer data. ISPs have access to mountains of personal information including our browsing history, personal and professional...
Think Cambridge Analytica is bad? Wait until ISPs start selling our dossiers to shady political actors.
The Cambridge Analytica and Facebook scandal has woken the United States up to the seedy underbelly of online advertising markets. Unless we take action soon, this problem will only get worse. Thankfully, states like Massachusetts are considering legislation that would protect consumers...
Bipartisan legislation before congress threatens privacy and human rights worldwide, and we must stop it
Legislation recently proposed in the senate would give US and foreign governments unprecedented access to our real-time communications and sensitive personal information stored on the servers of private companies like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. On February 6th, Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Chris...
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CFPB SCALES BACK EQUIFAX INVESTIGATION AND WARREN SLAMS BACK From Vox: Elizabeth Warren warns Equifax could “wiggle off the hook” for users’ credit data getting hacked On Wednesday, Senator Elizabeth Warren released a report condemning Equifax for a lackluster response to its...
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AFTERMATH OF THE NUNES MEMO: SCHUMER HITS BACK From Politico: House Intel members: Release the FISA application After the controversial release of the Nunes Memo on Friday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer urged Trump to allow the House Democrats to release a...