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Data firm at center of Facebook privacy scandal will close

I think this was all but inevitable….

~TJK

Source: Data firm at center of Facebook privacy scandal will close

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A New Year of Spying on You and Me

Yeah, well they renewed it. This isn’t strictly related to Healthcare Innovation, but working as I do in the Pharma/Device eData space, it is of interest. Privacy comes up a lot…and this complicates things.

 

 
An illustration picture shows the logo of the U.S. National Security Agency on the display of an iPhone in Berlin
An illustration picture shows the logo of the U.S. National Security Agency on the display of an iPhone in Berlin, June 7, 2013. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski
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By Dustin Volz

(Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill to renew the National Security Agency’s warrantless internet surveillance program, overcoming objections from privacy advocates and confusion prompted by morning tweets from President Donald Trump that initially questioned the spying tool.

The legislation, which passed 256-164 and split party lines, is the culmination of a years-long debate in Congress on the proper scope of U.S. intelligence collection – one fueled by the 2013 disclosures of classified surveillance secrets by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

Senior Democrats in the House had urged cancellation of the vote after Trump appeared to cast doubt on the merits of the program, but Republicans forged ahead.

Trump initially wrote on Twitter that the surveillance program, first created in secret after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and later legally authorized by Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), had been used against him but later said it was needed.

Some conservative, libertarian-leaning Republicans and liberal Democrats attempted to persuade colleagues to include more privacy protections. They failed on Thursday to pass an amendment to include a requirement for a warrant before the NSA or other intelligence agencies could scrutinize communications belonging to an American whose data is incidentally collected….(more)

 

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by tjkuhn

Hear Hear, Apple! Hear Hear, Google!

In a move of solidarity, Google supports Apple in its fight against the US government to provide a “back door” into the popular iPhone…a move that would allow the government to hack  all of Apple’s customers.

#privacy #nobackdoor

~TJK

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/heres-googles-ceo-just-said-000854021.html

Here’s what Google’s CEO just said about Apple’s battle with the FBI

Business Insider

By Jillian D’Onfro 5 hours ago
 

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Sundar Pichai

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai just weighed in on Apple’s battle with the FBI, which has ordered Apple to help it unlock the phone of one of the shooters who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, last year in an apparent terrorist act.In a series of tweets, Pichai wrote that although Google gives “law enforcement access to data based on valid legal orders,” that is “wholly different than requiring companies to enable hacking of customer devices and data,” which could set a “troubling precedent.”

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British Intelligence is Legally Allowed to Hack Anyone, Court Says

Wow….privacy is dead.

Hacking of computers, smartphones and networks in the United Kingdom or abroad by the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is LEGAL, the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) ruled….

http://thehackernews.com/2016/02/gchq-hacking-news.html?m=1