YouTube changes cookie use policy on Whitehouse.gov
In an apparent acknowledgment of the concerns expressed by privacy advocates, YouTube has changed its use of tracking cookies for videos embedded on the Whitehouse.gov Web site.
Fight to legalize iPhone jailbreaking set for Friday
Apple's iPhone marketing chief will square off against the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others Friday as the U.S. Copyright Office considers whether to allow an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that would permit jailbreaking.
College student fights warrant seizing his computer
Boston College is finding itself in the middle of a controversy over its handling of a case involving a student who allegedly sent an e-mail claiming that a fellow student was gay and used a college computer network to change grades.
New EFF search tool opens up FOIA documents
Want to know what the feds have been up to? Anyone with Internet access can now search through thousands of once-classified documents that the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) "has pried loose from secretive government agencies" through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Keeping the government's prying eyes at bay
The Electronic Frontier Foundation last week took the wraps off a new Web site that is designed to help you keep the government from taking the wraps off your personal communications and stored data.
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SVG a graphics format for 21st century
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Take Chrome OS for a test spin
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Android fragments vs. the iPhone monolith
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What Gizmodo missed about the Pro WX Wireless USB disk drive
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
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Keeping the government's prying eyes at bay
EFF files surveillance lawsuit against NSA, Bush, Cheney
EFF berates Apple over open-source iTunes project
New EFF search tool opens up FOIA documents
College student fights warrant seizing his computer
Fight to legalize iPhone jailbreaking set for Friday
YouTube changes cookie use policy on Whitehouse.gov
EFF, Public Knowledge sue US gov't over secret IP pact