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Privacy Doesn T Really Mean Private Does

A top intelligence official says it is time people in the United States changed their definition of privacy.

Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, a deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguards people's private communications and financial information.

Kerr's comments come as Congress is taking a second look at the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act.

Lawmakers hastily changed the 1978 law last summer to allow the government to eavesdrop inside the United States without court permission, so long as one end of the conversation was reasonably believed to be located outside the U.S.

The original law required a court order for any surveillance conducted on U.S. soil, to protect Americans' privacy. The White House argued that the law was obstructing intelligence gathering.

The most contentious issue in the new legislation is whether to shield telecommunications companies from civil lawsuits for allegedly giving the government access to people's private e-mails and phone calls without a court order between 2001 and 2007.

Some lawmakers, including members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, appear reluctant to grant immunity. Suits might be the only way to determine how far the government has burrowed into people's privacy without court permission.

The committee is expected to decide this week whether its version of the bill will protect telecommunications companies.

The central witness in a California lawsuit against AT&T says the government is vacuuming up billions of e-mails and phone calls as they pass through an AT&T switching station in San Francisco.

Mark Klein, a retired AT&T technician, helped connect a device in 2003 that he says diverted and copied onto a government supercomputer every call, e-mail, and Internet site access on AT&T lines.

Ensure your Facebook security and privacy settings are right for you ComputerActive.co.uk Most people put some fairly personal information on Facebook so it's essential to have the right privacy options in place. We show you how to set them up To begin, log in to Facebook as usual. Now click the arrow at the top right-hand corner and choose ...

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Highlight knows who is standing on that corner … and will tell you VentureBeat Davidson explained, “With the right privacy controls, I think anyone would be willing to share some subset of information with some subset of people.” And users do have some privacy controls, at this point, though they are limited. and more »

Field Fisher Waterhouse | Data Protection: The big switchover Linex Legal (press release) (registration) Privacy policies and consent forms – As transparency and consent take the centre stage, the importance of deploying the right privacy policies and consent forms will be paramount. The time for reviewing their content and channels of communication is ...

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Privacy Doesn T Really Mean Private Does

A top intelligence official says it is time people in the United States changed their definition of privacy.

Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, a deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguards people's private communications and financial information.

Kerr's comments come as Congress is taking a second look at the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act.

Lawmakers hastily changed the 1978 law last summer to allow the government to eavesdrop inside the United States without court permission, so long as one end of the conversation was reasonably believed to be located outside the U.S.

The original law required a court order for any surveillance conducted on U.S. soil, to protect Americans' privacy. The White House argued that the law was obstructing intelligence gathering.

The most contentious issue in the new legislation is whether to shield telecommunications companies from civil lawsuits for allegedly giving the government access to people's private e-mails and phone calls without a court order between 2001 and 2007.

Some lawmakers, including members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, appear reluctant to grant immunity. Suits might be the only way to determine how far the government has burrowed into people's privacy without court permission.

The committee is expected to decide this week whether its version of the bill will protect telecommunications companies.

The central witness in a California lawsuit against AT&T says the government is vacuuming up billions of e-mails and phone calls as they pass through an AT&T switching station in San Francisco.

Mark Klein, a retired AT&T technician, helped connect a device in 2003 that he says diverted and copied onto a government supercomputer every call, e-mail, and Internet site access on AT&T lines.

Ensure your Facebook security and privacy settings are right for you ComputerActive.co.uk Most people put some fairly personal information on Facebook so it's essential to have the right privacy options in place. We show you how to set them up To begin, log in to Facebook as usual. Now click the arrow at the top right-hand corner and choose ... and more »

VentureBeat

Highlight knows who is standing on that corner … and will tell you VentureBeat Davidson explained, “With the right privacy controls, I think anyone would be willing to share some subset of information with some subset of people.” And users do have some privacy controls, at this point, though they are limited. and more »

Facebook, cell/mobile numbers, privacy and you iTWire In this instance, users being unaware of the need to set the right privacy settings is at play, rather than Facebook having newly made some changes to the way it does things which is often followed up by with an apology of some kind. and more »

Field Fisher Waterhouse | Data Protection: The big switchover Linex Legal (press release) (registration) Privacy policies and consent forms – As transparency and consent take the centre stage, the importance of deploying the right privacy policies and consent forms will be paramount. The time for reviewing their content and channels of communication is ...

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 Political History  What is a Libertarian  Democrats Left Liberal  Republican History  Infant Deaths in Industrialized USA  Pope Benedict XVI will visit the United States  Privacy Doesn't really mean Private  What is an Agnostic  Intelligent Design Trial  Best Science Books 2007  2007 top math and science books  Top Math Tutoring Books  George Bush middle name  Justice CIA investigage  CompUSA Retail Operations  Peak Oil Chinese Cremation  Intelligent Design Vs Evolution  New 5 Dollar Bill  Is the Earth Slowing down  Bible Contradictions  Middle School Issue Birth Control Pills  REAL ID ACT OF 2005  JOHN GILMORE v. ALBERTO R. GONZALES  Walmart the Enemy