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United States lawmakers this week will vote on an amendment to the surveillance bill known as the USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act that would limit law enforcement access to people's search and browsing histories. Enacted in June 2015, the USA FREEDOM Act amends, among others, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, and USA PATRIOT Act, imposing limits on the bulk collection of data on U.S. citizens by the National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies.
It didn't: the amendment to curtail warrantless web history search missed passage by only one vote when four senators didn't show up for the Senate's vote. In a nutshell, Section 215 currently allows the government to collect the web browsing and internet searches of Americans without a warrant.
In a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives, several Internet organizations are urging for an amendment to the surveillance bill known as the USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act to prohibit warrantless collection of search and browsing history. Signed by Mozilla Corporation, Engine, Reddit, Reform Government Surveillance, Twitter, i2Coalition, and Patreon, the letter asserts that the Internet browsing and search history provide a detailed picture of a person's life, and that legislation should ensure that this information is well protected.
Germany's foreign intelligence service violated the constitution by spying on internet data from foreigners abroad, the nation's top court ruled Tuesday in a victory for overseas journalists who brought the case. The BND agency's surveillance violates "The fundamental right to privacy of telecommunications" and freedom of the press, judges at the Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe said in their verdict.
The Senate came one vote short Wednesday of approving a proposal to prevent federal law enforcement from obtaining internet browsing information or search history without seeking a warrant. The amendment vote came as the Senate considered renewal of three surveillance provisions that expired in March before Congress left due to the coronavirus pandemic.
More than six years after Facebook launched its ambitious Free Basics program to bring the Internet to the masses, the social network is back at it again with a new zero-rating initiative called Discover. The service, available as a mobile web and Android app, allows users to browse the Internet using free daily data caps.
More than six years after Facebook launched its ambitious Free Basics program to bring the Internet to the masses, the social network is back at it again with a new zero-rating initiative called Discover. The service, available as a mobile web and Android app, allows users to browse the Internet using free daily data caps.
Netsweeper's internet filter has a nasty security vulnerability that can be exploited to hijack the host server and tamper with lists of blocked websites. Rathaus told The Register that, in the worst case scenario, a hacker could exploit the bug to not only take over the host server, but also manipulate how users have their content filtered and delivered by Netsweeper.
Zoom does offer end-to-end encryption if 1) everyone is using a Zoom app, and not logging in to the meeting using a webpage, and 2) the meeting is not being recorded in the cloud. The Zoom transport protocol adds Zoom's own encryption scheme to RTP in an unusual way.
In a blunder described as "Astonishing and worrying," Sheffield City Council's automatic number-plate recognition system exposed to the internet 8.6 million records of road journeys made by thousands of people, The Register can reveal. The ANPR camera system's internal management dashboard could be accessed by simply entering its IP address into a web browser.