[PrivacyClueRay Everett-Church on Privacy, Politics Culture] The irony, of course, is that the FTC is the federal government agency responsible for policing many of the issues related to identity theft and fraud. This is not the first instance in which FTC commissioners have gotten first-hand experience in coping with problems under the FTC’s jurisdiction.
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[Emergentchaos.com] Emergent Chaos: Musings from Adam Shostack on security, privacy ...: Those companies include Cisco, covered by Rebecca MacKinnon in posts like "More on Cisco in China" and Secure Computing, covered in "Iranian net censorship powered by....Silicon Valley." (I'm told that Secure sells to the middle east out of their Toronto office, and that at least in the United Arab Emirates, their product is regularly updated.)
[Pipeda.blogspot.com] The Canadian Privacy Law Blog: October 2004: Whereas the Court of Appeal treated the FLIR imaging as equivalent to a search of the home, and thus "worthy of the state's highest respect", it is more accurately characterized as an external surveillance of the home to obtain information that may or may not be capable of giving rise to an inference about what was actually going on inside, depending on what other information is available to the police.
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