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Data Retention 2007-03-05 14:04:00 By Declan McCullaghStaff Writer, CNET News.com Published: March 2, 2007, 4:00 AM PSThttp://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6163679.html The Bush administration has accelerated its Internet surveillance push by proposing that Web sites must keep records of who uploads photographs or videos in case police determine the content is illegal and choose to investigate, CNET News.com has learned. That proposal surfaced Wednesday in a private meeting during which U.S. Department of Justice officials, including Assistant Attorney General Rachel Brand, tried to convince industry representatives such as AOL and Comcast that data retention would be valuable in investigating terrorism, child pornography and other crimes. The discussions were described to News.com by several people who attended the meeting. High Impact What's new: Officials from the U.S. Department of Justice held a private meeting to persuade Internet industry representatives to keep records of who uploads photographs or videos.
The Privacy Project - An Introduction 2007-03-04 01:43:00 The PrivacyProject
is an attempt to raise awareness about the way many people unknowingly release private information about themselves when they use the Internet. Many people use social networking sites and purchase products online all the while leaving behind a publicly accessible digital fingerprint. This fingerprint can (and will) be 'profiled' by following a user’s activity across a series of web sites. This blog will document articles relevant to privacy and most importantly it will record the investigations of The Privacy Project. That is, the investigators in The Privacy Project will follow leads on the internet and build profiles of random internet users and publish their findings here in the form of a profile supplemented with a detailed analysis of internet user’s life based on their digital fingerprint. These will serve as examples of the needed education about privacy and internet usage. The people in these profiles will never be named by the investigators f Read more:Introduction
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