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Thu, 2012-01-26 14:30 — mdmcdonald
This working group is focused on discussions about privacy, secrecy, and openness issues.

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Zuckerberg Takes Out Ads to Apologize as Facebook Data Misuse Crisis Intensifies

Tue, 2018-03-27 09:16 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg apologized for the Cambridge Analytica scandal with ads in multiple US and British newspapers Sunday.  JENNY KANE/ASSOCIATED PRESS

usatoday.com - by Marco della Cava - March 25, 2018

As Facebook continues to buffet winds of criticism, its founder took out full page ads in U.S. and British newspapers Sunday to apologize to consumers for not properly securing their personal data.

"This was a breach of trust, and I'm sorry we didn't do more at the time," Mark Zuckerberg said in the signed ad, which was published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and six British papers. "We have a responsibility to protect your information. If we can't, we don't deserve it."

The ad refers to the misuse of 50 million Facebook profiles, which were mined through an app created by a Cambridge University professor and then sold, in violation of Facebook's terms of service, to Cambridge Analytica, a company that used the profiles to create election ad-targeting tools for the campaign to elect Donald Trump.

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U.S. Government Scientists Go 'Rogue' in Defiance of Trump

Thu, 2017-01-26 10:40 — Kathy Gilbeaux

           

Badlands National Park in South Dakota is pictured in this July 16, 2014 handout photo.
Badlands National Park/Handout via REUTERS

reuters.com - by Steve Gorman - January 26, 2017

Employees from more than a dozen U.S. government agencies have established a network of unofficial "rogue" Twitter feeds in defiance of what they see as attempts by President Donald Trump to muzzle federal climate change research and other science.

Seizing on Trump's favorite mode of discourse, scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA and other bureaus have privately launched Twitter accounts - borrowing names and logos of their agencies - to protest restrictions they view as censorship and provide unfettered platforms for information the new administration has curtailed.

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Getting Tenants to Share Energy Data

Sun, 2015-03-08 11:00 — Maeryn Obley

A picture of an apartment complex.Image: A picture of an apartment complex.

energymanagertoday.com - March 5th 2015 - Linda Hardesty

There are a number of reasons why tenants may not want multifamily building owners to have access to their utility data, according to a WegoWise blog posting. This can create a problem for building owners who want to benchmark energy usage.

One big reason tenants may not want to share data is privacy. Tenants are often concerned that landlords will use the information to somehow increase their rent, void their lease or otherwise take advantage of them, says the WegoWise post.

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Defending an Open, Global, Secure, and Resilient Internet

Sun, 2013-10-06 21:26 — Kathy Gilbeaux

cfr.org - Council on Foreign Relations - June 2013

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This CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force warns that "escalating attacks on countries, companies, and individuals, as well as pervasive criminal activity, threaten the security and safety of the Internet." The number of "state-backed operations continues to rise, and future attacks will become more sophisticated and disruptive," argues the Task Force report, Defending an Open, Global, Secure, and Resilient Internet.

With the ideal vision of an open and secure Internet increasingly at risk, the Task Force urges the United States, with its friends and allies, "to act quickly to encourage a global cyberspace that reflects shared values of free expression and free markets."

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Openness the New Model for Society

Sun, 2013-09-08 17:06 — Kathy Gilbeaux

 

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No Straight Lines - by Alan Moore - September 7, 2013

It has been said that privacy is dead. Not so. It’s secrecy that is dying. Openness will kill it.

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German Minister Floats US Company Ban

Mon, 2013-08-05 19:29 — gl

German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger has raised the possibility of punishing American companies who violate future European privacy rules. AFP.

spiegel.de - Spiegel International - August 5, 2013

With the NSA spying scandal continuing to make headlines in Europe, the German Justice Minister, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, has raised the possibility of new, tangible measures to punish corporations that participate in American spying activities.

In an interview with Die Welt, the liberal Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger called for the creation of EU-wide rules to regulate the protection of information, and said that, once those rules are in place, "United States companies that don't abide by these standards should be denied doing business in the European market."

In recent weeks, the German foreign intelligence service (BND) has also come under attack for its own close cooperation with the NSA.

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NSA Warned to Rein in Surveillance as Agency Reveals Even Greater Scope

Mon, 2013-07-22 23:07 — Kathy Gilbeaux

NSA officials James Cole, Robert S Litt and John Inglis appear before House committee. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP

NSA officials testify to angry House panel that agency can perform 'three-hop queries' through Americans' data and records

guardian.co.uk - by Spencer Ackerman - July 17, 2013

The National Security Agency revealed to an angry congressional panel on Wednesday that its analysis of phone records and online behavior goes exponentially beyond what it had previously disclosed.

John C Inglis, the deputy director of the surveillance agency, told a member of the House judiciary committee that NSA analysts can perform "a second or third hop query" through its collections of telephone data and internet records in order to find connections to terrorist organizations.

NSA warned to rein in surveillance as agency reveals even greater scope

Thu, 2013-07-18 11:12 — Gina Angiola

Spender Ackerman in Washington

guadian.co.uk, Wednesday 17 July 2013


The National Security Agency revealed to an angry congressional panel on Wednesday that its analysis of phone records and online behavior goes exponentially beyond what it had previously disclosed.

John C Inglis, the deputy director of the surveillance agency, told a member of the House judiciary committee that NSA analysts can perform "a second or third hop query" through its collections of telephone data and internet records in order to find connections to terrorist organizations.

"Hops" refers to a technical term indicating connections between people. A three-hop query means that the NSA can look at data not only from a suspected terrorist, but from everyone that suspect communicated with, and then from everyone those people communicated with, and then from everyone all of those people communicated with....

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Web’s Reach Binds N.S.A. and Silicon Valley Leaders

Fri, 2013-06-28 22:38 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

Spy agencies invest in Silicon Valley start-ups, award classified contracts and recruit technology experts like Max Kelly.  C-Span

nytimes.com - by JAMES RISEN and NICK WINGFIELD - June 19, 2013

WASHINGTON — When Max Kelly, the chief security officer for Facebook, left the social media company in 2010, he did not go to Google, Twitter or a similar Silicon Valley concern. Instead the man who was responsible for protecting the personal information of Facebook’s more than one billion users from outside attacks went to work for another giant institution that manages and analyzes large pools of data: the National Security Agency.

Mr. Kelly’s move to the spy agency, which has not previously been reported, underscores the increasingly deep connections between Silicon Valley and the agency and the degree to which they are now in the same business.

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Boundless Informant is a Secret NSA Tool to Data-Mine the World

Tue, 2013-06-11 11:03 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

The color scheme ranges from green (least subjected to surveillance) through yellow and orange to red (most surveillance). Note the '2007' date in the image relates to the document from which the interactive map derives its top secret classification, not to the map itself.

mashable.com - by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai - June 8, 2013

The NSA has a tool that records and analyzes all the flow of data that the spy agency collects around the world. Think of it as a global data-mining software that details exactly how much intelligence, and of what type, has been collected from every country in the world. It's aptly called "Boundless Informant."

The tool's existence was revealed on Saturday by The Guardian, which obtained a series of top-secret documents that explain what Boundless Informant is and does.

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