Cell Phone Tapping

~ The Snitch in Your Pocket
Newsweek covers government attempts to track cell phones—without the benefit of a warrant

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EFF Modern Day Hero’s, Fighting for your Rights

* EFF IS DEMANDING BETTER PRIVACY PROTECTIONS FOR
ENERGY CUSTOMERS RECEIVING “SMART METERS,” new devices
that measure your home’s energy use in unprecedented
detail. Energy usage data, measured moment by moment,
allows the reconstruction of a household’s activities:
when people wake up, when they come home, when they
go on vacation, and maybe even when they take a hot
bath. Without strong protections, this information can and
will be secured by civil litigants (like divorce lawyers
or insurance companies), criminals, law enforcement, and
more. The states and the federal government should ensure
that energy customers get the protection they deserve at
their homes — where privacy rights should be strongest.

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Email Privacy Agreements

in spite of the fact that Air America’s privacy agreement said that
newsletter e-mail addresses “[would] not be divulged to any third
party” as recently as January 17th of this year.

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Are you as secure as you think?

* GOVERNMENT EXPLOITS SSL CERTIFICATES SECURITY
FLAW? Researchers released a draft paper about an inherent
browser security flaw with evidence that governments
may be able to surreptitiously spy on users’ “secure”
communications. Most modern browsers rely on certificate
authorities (CAs) to vouch for whether a secure site
is what it claims to be. But there’s evidence that
governments are being sold tools that they can use as
part of a scheme to have CAs issue certificates for
surveillance operations, enabling the undetectable
spoofing of ceratin websites or services.

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