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Live Webcast: Turning Data into Business Insight with Analytics
Business analytics. If you aren't using them already, you should be. If you aren't even sure what they are, you'll need to check out this webcast. Discover how you can put your data to work and...
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Maryland bans employers asking for your Facebook password
Maryland has become the first state to ban the practice of employers asking current employees as well as job applicants for access to their social media accounts, such as for Facebook.
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Maryland first to ban employers asking for your Facebook password
Maryland will soon become the first state to ban the practice of employers asking current employees as well as job applicants for access to their social media accounts, such as on Facebook.
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ACLU: Employers demanding Facebook passwords is privacy invasion
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has spoken. Employers and prospective employers should not be asking you for your Facebook password. Doing so is invading your privacy.
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School district demands Facebook password, 12-year-old girl sues
A 12-year-old girl is suing a school district for violating her First Amendment and Fourth Amendment rights related to her use of Facebook. Facebook's minimum age requirement is 13-years-old.
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Employer vs Facebook: Is there a point to privacy settings?
Privacy settings may have briefly blinded the eyes of spying potential employers - but how far will they go to pry in to your social networks?
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Churchill Club podcast: The good, bad and unknown on Web consumer data collection
A panel of experts examined data collection on Web sites and how it is being used.
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Employer demands Facebook login credentials during interview
Officer Robert Collins tells the story of how the Maryland Division of Corrections demanded his Facebook login credentials during a recertification interview.
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Report: Lower Merion School Board was proactively spying on students
Blake Robbins' parents, Holy and Michael Robbins, have filed a lawsuit in Federal Court against the Lower Merion District School Board. What started out as an ability to find lost laptops has...
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Google asks the NSA for help: Smart decision
Taking into consideration the complexity Google faces in its global operations, the volume of data it manages and warehouses, it's my belief that the only organization in the world that could even...
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ACLU: Google collab with US spy agency is dangerous
Google has way too much data about US citizens and the NSA has a history of spying on US citizens...
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EFF, ACLU says Google Books will chill reading, speech
Google's ability to track users' browsing and book reading habits creates a dangerous temptation to government and private litigants, which will result in a chilling effect on free speech and...
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Judge blocks prosecution of sexting teens
The wingnut prosecutor in Pennsylvania who threatened to charge three teenage girls with child pornography for sending photos of themselves has been temporarily put on ice by a federal judge, the...
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Girls sue DA who threatened them over bra photos
You know, writing about technology every day, you get used to a certain level of stupidity. But I'm pretty flabbergasted, no outraged, about this story of kids being threatened with jail time...
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U.S. Justice Department to be sued
From Slashdot: tpaudio writes "The ACLU and the EFF are suing the Department of Justice over how the government might be using GPS and location data from cell phones. With over 200 million...
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Supreme Court declines warrantless wiretapping case
The ACLU and other organizations attempted to sue the government for a warrantless wiretapping program called the Terrorist Surveillance Program. A U.S. District Court decided to let the suit go...
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License-plate scanners are transforming police work
The suspect: A man had rammed a 12-year-old girl with his car, pulled her inside and tried to sexually assault her. The girl fought back and escaped. The officer: San Jose, Calif., Officer Max...
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Wiretap laws face new static
A bill in the House focuses on the touchy issue of immunity for ISPs and phone companies that aid the feds in spying.
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Secret court considers ACLU request for orders
The ACLU has asked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to release the secret orders the court issued regarding the National Security Agency's wiretapping program. Now the court has asked...
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Judge: Child Online Protection Act unconstitutional
Law would have penalized websites for allowing kids to see sexual material, but judge finds it impinges on free speech, privacy rights.
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State moves against cyberbullying but Constitutional issues loom
Current state law doesn't address cyberbullying so new bill tries to gives schools more ammo for the problem, but ACLU warns of First Amendment concerns.
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