http://secondaryscreening.net/ A Closer Look At Anti-Terrorism, Privacy and Data Mining en-us Copyright 2006 Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:10:43 -0800 Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:39:49 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Kevin Poulsen, my rocking editor at Wired News, made me an offer I couldn't refuse -- co-blogging with him over on the Wired News site. So now I'm moving my prose stylings over to a Wired News blog called 27B... http://www.secondaryscreening.net/static/archives/2006/04/change_of_addre.html http://www.secondaryscreening.net/static/archives/2006/04/change_of_addre.html Miscellany Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:10:43 -0800 Passengers willing to undergo perpetual government background checks in exchange for the promise of shorter screening lines at the airport will be able to register as soon as late summer in a corporate-run Registered Traveler program set to debut in... http://www.secondaryscreening.net/static/archives/2006/04/privatized_regi.html http://www.secondaryscreening.net/static/archives/2006/04/privatized_regi.html Airline Security Measures Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:19:20 -0800 A software bug in the system designed to keep carry-on bag screeners alert shut down Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International airport, the nation's busiest airport, on Wednesday, according to CNN. In order to break up the tedium of scanning bags full of... http://www.secondaryscreening.net/static/archives/2006/04/software_bug_sh.html http://www.secondaryscreening.net/static/archives/2006/04/software_bug_sh.html Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:58:35 -0800 My blog got smacked hard today with automated comment spam. I found the host of the responsible site and reported the abuse. I also dropped a note to the spammer, who lives in Mexico. He wrote me back saying his... http://www.secondaryscreening.net/static/archives/2006/04/hostgator_rocks.html http://www.secondaryscreening.net/static/archives/2006/04/hostgator_rocks.html Miscellany Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:47:57 -0800 This is Animal Farm situated in Orwell, Vermont. Their butter is better than normal capitalist butter: It also has a butter-fat content of 87 percent, significantly higher than other butters made in the United States and the equivalent of the... http://www.secondaryscreening.net/static/archives/2006/04/but_some_butter.html http://www.secondaryscreening.net/static/archives/2006/04/but_some_butter.html Miscellany Mon, 17 Apr 2006 20:06:46 -0800 The Transportation Security Administration picked Peter Pietra as their top choice in this year's National Privacy League draft. Pietra will be playing QB (a position TSA bureaucrats call "Director of Privacy Policy and Compliance") for the beleaguered TSA, which has... http://www.secondaryscreening.net/static/archives/2006/04/tsa_picks_priva.html http://www.secondaryscreening.net/static/archives/2006/04/tsa_picks_priva.html Airline Security Measures Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:41:08 -0800 AT&T has lost at least one customer due to the class action lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation accusing the telecom giant of wiretapping the Internet on behalf of the National Security Agency (NSA). That customer? Judge Vaughn Walker,... http://www.secondaryscreening.net/static/archives/2006/04/att_loses_a_cus.html http://www.secondaryscreening.net/static/archives/2006/04/att_loses_a_cus.html Privacy Fri, 14 Apr 2006 15:55:11 -0800 More than 40 years after the Jetsons promised us we would all have videophones, we've arrived at a future where that's a reality -- whether through free internet chat applications, pricey standalone home units, or high-tech corporate video-conferencing rooms. Now... http://www.secondaryscreening.net/static/archives/2006/04/jetsons_video_p.html http://www.secondaryscreening.net/static/archives/2006/04/jetsons_video_p.html Miscellany Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:47:24 -0800 AT&T has responded to the Electronic Frontier Foundation's move to have a judge stop the company from allegedly helping the NSA eavesdrop on its customers, and the telecom giant says it wants its secret documents back pronto. In papers filed... http://www.secondaryscreening.net/static/archives/2006/04/att_69s_eff.html http://www.secondaryscreening.net/static/archives/2006/04/att_69s_eff.html Privacy Wed, 12 Apr 2006 16:28:14 -0800 Elise Ackerman at the San Jose Mercury News has some great follow-up reporting today on ex-AT&T employee-cum-whistleblower Mark Klein's public statement last week, which included allegations that a secret NSA spying room wired into to AT&T's internet switching station in... http://www.secondaryscreening.net/static/archives/2006/04/narus_not_in_th.html http://www.secondaryscreening.net/static/archives/2006/04/narus_not_in_th.html Data Mining Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:39:46 -0800 Daniel Solove has a post today about New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer settling with Datran Media for $1.1 million for allegedly renting the Freepay/Gratis Internet/Freeipods.com email list while KNOWING that the email list was protected by a privacy policy.... http://www.secondaryscreening.net/static/archives/2006/04/barbie_says_pri.html http://www.secondaryscreening.net/static/archives/2006/04/barbie_says_pri.html Privacy Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:57:10 -0800 A blogger named bewert over at Daily Kos follows up on allegations made by ex-AT&T employee Mark Klein that AT&T installed equipment at an AT&T Internet switching facility that feeds the NSA a copy of every Internet packet that flowing... http://www.secondaryscreening.net/static/archives/2006/04/spy_machine_cap.html http://www.secondaryscreening.net/static/archives/2006/04/spy_machine_cap.html Data Mining Mon, 10 Apr 2006 10:17:41 -0800 An ex-At&T employee has made public a summary of his statement he provided in support of a lawsuit against AT&T, alleging that the telecom giant has built out secret wiretap rooms that funnel internet and phone call data to the... http://www.secondaryscreening.net/static/archives/2006/04/exatt_employee.html http://www.secondaryscreening.net/static/archives/2006/04/exatt_employee.html Data Mining Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:52:22 -0800 New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has been on a crusade against spammers and spyware companies, but it's a wonder anyone actually knows about it. I called yesterday asking to get on the press list and Spitzer's office told me... http://www.secondaryscreening.net/static/archives/2006/04/spitzer_fightin.html http://www.secondaryscreening.net/static/archives/2006/04/spitzer_fightin.html Miscellany Wed, 05 Apr 2006 11:40:00 -0800 The Justice Department's new chief privacy officer, Jane Horvath, has perhaps the most interesting job in D.C. Whether she will get to do it is another question altogether. I'm fairly certain that Horvath has no power to subpoena documents (Homeland... http://www.secondaryscreening.net/static/archives/2006/04/more_on_justice.html http://www.secondaryscreening.net/static/archives/2006/04/more_on_justice.html Privacy Wed, 05 Apr 2006 10:09:42 -0800