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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Newly Revealed FBI Data Abuses and the Data
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (privacy@vortex.com)
Sat Mar 10 13:09:22 2007
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Newly Revealed FBI Data Abuses and the Data Retention Red Flag
( http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000215.html )
Greetings. The release of a new report detailing massive FBI abuses
of the PATRIOT Act (particularly in regard to National Security
Letters), now confirms concerns that I and others have been long
expressing about the potential abuse of retained Internet and other
data, e.g.:
Sounding the Alarm on Government-Mandated Data Retention
( http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000175.html )
An Open Letter to Google: Concepts for a Google Privacy Initiative
( http://www.vortex.com/google-privacy-initiative ).
Broad abuses of retained data are now demonstrated to be real, not
theoretical, as described in the Washington Post story at:
http://tinyurl.com/2kh3lp
We don't yet really know the full extent of these violations, but
what has already been revealed is bad enough as a starting point.
I hope that these events will not only trigger considerable
soul-searching by those firms who voluntarily retain user activity
data, but also cause a renewed recognition of how broad mandated data
retention can facilitate, and inevitably will facilitate, such
abuses in the future.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
lauren@vortex.com or lauren@pfir.org
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
http://www.pfir.org/lauren
Co-Founder, PFIR
- People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org
Co-Founder, IOIC
- International Open Internet Coalition - http://www.ioic.net
Founder, CIFIP
- California Initiative For Internet Privacy - http://www.cifip.org
Founder, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com
Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
DayThink: http://daythink.vortex.com
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