Electrical Information Devices for universal, tyrannical womb-to-tomb surveillance are causing a very serious dilemma between our claim to privacy and the community’s need to know.Marshall McLuhan
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Ghostery will help make it less creepy.
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Social Media and Law Enforcement: Who Gets What Data and When?
The US Department of Justice recently obtained a court order for records from Twitter on several of its users related to the WikiLeaks disclosures. Instead of just turning over this information, Twitter “beta-tested a spine” and notified its users of the court order, thus giving them the opportunity to challenge it in court.
The EFF has been investigating how the government seeks information from social networking sites such as Twitter and how the sites respond to these requests in their ongoing social networking Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, filed with the help of UC Berkeley’s Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic.
The EFF received copies of guides from 13 companies, including Facebook, MySpace, AOL, eBay, Ning, Tagged, Craigslist and others, and for some of the companies they received several versions of the guide. They have combed through the data in these guides and, with the Samuelson Clinic’s help, organized it into a comprehensive spreadsheet (in .xls and .pdf) that compares how the companies handle requests for user information such as contact information, photos, IP logs, friend networks, buying history, and private messages. And although they didn’t receive a copy of Twitter’s law enforcement guide, Twitter publishes some relevant information on its site, so they have included that in their spreadsheet for comparison.
