No
doubt this will come to the US. What happens when I tell them I
don't own a smartphone?
UK
police to demand phones are handed over after traffic accidents
Drivers
in the UK could be asked to hand
over their mobile phones by police in the event of a car
accident, no matter how minor, and whether any injuries are
sustained. The change in directive is designed to cut down on the
amount of fatal or serious accidents caused by drivers using their
phones, which stands at around 500 per year in the country.
Police
officers will check phones to look for evidence a call was in
progress at the time of the accident, or if a message or social
networking update was being sent. If any evidence is discovered, the
device could be seized and used in any future prosecution. This is a
small but important change to the existing law, which currently
allows officers to check mobile
devices only in serious accidents.
(Related)
We knew this was happening, didn't we? “We know when dad drove
mom to the hospital for your birth. We'll know when the funeral home
drives you to the cemetery. And well keep that valuable information
forever!”
Steve
Orr reports:
In a crime-fighting tactic that sets civil libertarians’ teeth on
edge, police in Monroe County and other urban counties across New
York state are collecting and archiving tens of millions of records
that track vehicle movement.
The records are stored in a series of loosely connected secure
computer servers, accessible directly or indirectly by police from
one end of New York to the other and by federal Homeland Security
officials.
Each of the records, which are gathered by license plate cameras
mounted on police cars or at fixed locations, includes a photograph
and the time and place that a particular vehicle was imaged. Strung
together, the records can paint a picture of where a person has
traveled — whether to the scene of a crime, a doctor’s office or
to church.
Read
more on WGRZ.
This
makes me think that perhaps Snowden has convinced Russia that we can
break TOR. I wonder what else he has told them we can do that might
be even more expensive for them to try and match? Now all we need to
do is pretend Snowden was a plant from the start...
Russia
Wants To Unmask Tor Users
The
Russian Government is offering 3.9 million roubles ($111,000) to
anyone who can successfully unmask
users of The Onion Router (Tor). The offer of a lucrative
contract comes from the Russian Interior Ministry, suggesting the aim
is to aid criminal investigations into people using Tor to hide
illegal activities.
This
offer comes just a week after researchers from Carnegie Mellon
University were prevented from revealing
a weakness in Tor which could have been used to de-anonymize
hundreds of thousands of users. If you aren’t yet aware of what
Tor is then you should read our primer
on The Onion Router and our beginner’s guide to navigating
the deep Web.
How
far will the EU go to micro-manage Google? Will they bother to learn
how the Internet and search engines work before trying to regulate
them?
26
Questions EU Regulators Want Google to Answer – WSJ
by
Sabrina I.
Pacifici on Jul 27, 2014
WSJ.com:
“European Union privacy watchdogs grilled Google Inc. and other
search engines for two hours on Thursday on how they are implementing
the bloc’s new “right to be forgotten” online–and then gave
them homework to do by next week, too. The main body that joins
together the EU’s national data-protection regulators called the
Brussels meeting with Google, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. amid
rising
discontent from some regulators over elements of
Google’s
application of the surprise May court decision that
gives
Europeans the right to ask for the removal of links
from search results for their names in some cases. Regulators
touched on some hot-button issues in six oral questions and another
26 written ones, with answers due by next Thursday. They asked
Google to describe the “legal basis” of its decision to notify
publishers when it approves right-to-be-forgotten
requests, something that has led to requesters’ being publicly
identified in some cases. They also asked search engines to explain
where they take down the results, after complaints from some
regulators that Google does not filter results on google.com. That
means that anyone in Europe can switch from, say, google.co.uk to
Google.com to see any removed links. In response to another
question, Google told regulators Thursday that it has been removing
just over 50% of the items that people have asked to
be unlinked from searches for their names, while rejecting just over
30% of requests, and asking for more information on 15%.”
Perhaps
my students who read would use this in their book club?
New
on LLRX – Cell phone book clubs: A new way for libraries to promote
literacy, technology, family and community
by
Sabrina I.
Pacifici on Jul 27, 2014
Via
LLRX.com
- Cell
phone book clubs: A new way for libraries to promote literacy,
technology, family and community
Young
people are heavy users of cell phones, but most
do not know they can read library e-books for free on their phones.
In this cutting-edge essay, David
Rothman tells how libraries could
use “cell phone book clubs” to reach out both to young cell phone
users and their families, including low-income people and members of
racial and ethnic minorities. The clubs would not only foster
literacy, but also leverage technology and strengthen the connections
between families and communities.
Something
for my students.
–
if you are a freelancer, you will know how difficult it is to find
continual work. So you would probably find LanceList a useful
resource to bookmark. LanceList is a curated collection of websites
in different fields that generally use freelance workers, such as
software creation, programming, writers, engineers, marketing, and
much more.
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