Daniel Mott at Pando: "The report, which is based on responses to several Freedom of Information Act requests, claims that 733,237 requests were made between 2012 and 2014. That means roughly every two minutes, a request was made for data pertaining to “the who, where and when” of a text, email, phone call or web search.” And this is likely an underestimate — one police district didn’t even bother to respond to Big Brother Watch’s inquiry."
UK cops average a personal metadata request every 2 minutes
Zuckerberg announces a comprehensive plan for a new, privacy-focused Facebook, but fails to mention data sharing and ad targeting
Mark Zuckerberg's 3,000 word blog post about his plan to create a parallel set of Facebook services that contain long-overdue privacy protections has plenty to please both the regulators who… READ THE REST
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NSA report discloses that the agency tripled its surveillance of Americans in 2017
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