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by jdp23 11y ago
Actually I think G+'s timing was just fine. Sure, earlier would have been better, but in 2011 a lot of people were very ready for an alternative to Facebook. Google did an excellent job of targeting influencers and creating a wonderfu
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by jdp23 11y ago
EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn lists Bernstein ("code is speech"), Grokster (a partial win), and then three surveillance state-related cases: Hepting vs. AT&T, and the still-active Jewel and National Security Letters cases.
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Ethiopian LGBT Activist Banned by Facebook Under Real Name Policy(time.com)
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The Ello Bill of Rights for Social Network Users(bill-of-rights.ello.co)
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They used clickthrough rates as a proxy for how useful the result was.
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Why I Walked Out of Facial Recognition Negotiations(slate.com)
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Yeah whatever happened to all of those?
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EFF and Eight Other Privacy Orgs Back Out of NTIA Face Recognition Talks(eff.org)
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Union Believes Data Breach Was Worse Than Disclosed(wsj.com)
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The list is at http://fbinfer.com/docs/infer-bug-types.html For Java, it's Resource leaks and Null dereferences For C and Objective C, the list is Resource leak Memory leak Null dereference Paramet
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by jdp23 11y ago
If we outlaw tautologies, then only the outlaws will have tautologies!
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NSA's use of 'back-door searches' against hackers is reformers' next target(theguardian.com)
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That's kind of what happened last year. Here's EFF's discussion from May 2014. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/eff-dismayed-houses-gu... This year, the House Intelligence Committee work
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by jdp23 11y ago
And, here's EFF's statement: Technology users everywhere should celebrate, knowing that the NSA will be a little more hampered in its surveillance overreach, and both the NSA and the FISA court will be more transparent and account
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Great questions. USA Freedom has some reforms, and shifts the collection to the telcos rather than the NSA. Then again it largely keeps the current regime in place (which makes it a win for the NSA), and it misses out on a lot of potentia
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The Senate rejected all the amendments, and passed the same version of USA Freedom that the House did, so this round of legislative battles is over. Barring anything unexpected, the next fight is 2017 over FISA renewal. [All the amendments
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Patriot Act powers to lapse at midnight as Senate fails to agree on NSA reform(theguardian.com)
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I changed the original headline to be more accurate. Paul's saying he'll block votes on USA Freedom or any extension to the current laws, which means that several clauses in the Patriot Act will sunset (section 215 including the
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Rand Paul: 'I will force the expiration' of portions of Patriot Act(politico.com)
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So, as I write this comment, this has 9 points and was posted 49 minutes ago. It doesn't appear on the front page. Or second page. Meanwhile, on the front page is "Dune Quotes", with 8 points posted an hour ago; and "T
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by jdp23 11y ago
I agree about FISA; and Marcy Wheeler has some great stuff to say about Richard Burr's alternate bill and internet collection. [1] However I wouldn't say that 215 is a red herring -- it'll be a significant victory if it sun
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Actually, EFF (and ACLU) pulled their support from USA Freedom after the Second Circuit court ruling [1]: "In light of the Second Circuit’s decision, EFF asks Congress to strengthen its proposed reform of Section 215, the USA Freedom A
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NSA bulk phone records collection to end despite USA Freedom Act failure(theguardian.com)
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There's a video of the whole session at http://www.c-span.org/video/?326202-3/us-senate-votes-nsa-su... It gets really dramatic at around 1:04, after McConnell's 2-month reauth was blocked as well (46-52
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The Senate's meeting again on the 31st. Rand Paul plans to offer some amendments; Burr may well have one as well. So it may be a revised USA Freedom Act; or it may be a sunset.
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USA Freedom Act fails as senators reject bill to scrap NSA bulk collection(theguardian.com)
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The Guardian's live updates have been the best place to follow the maneuvering today. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2015/may/22/clock-wi... The latest updates: there aren't enoug
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by jdp23 11y ago
Very much agree about the USA Freedom Act being an opportunity for the intelligence community to get more power. Marcy Wheeler had several examples a few days ago: https://www.emptywheel.net/2015/05/06/the-go
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Here's a summary of the legal issues by Marty Lederman: http://justsecurity.org/22799/breaking-circuit-rules-section... And Marcy Wheeler's got some excerpts as well: https://www.emptywheel.net&#x2
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Google: Congress Has Only a Few Weeks Left to Modernize Surveillance Laws(googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com)
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