Israel’s racial profiling at its borders has been rife with abuses that stand in contrast with American values of equal treatment and safeguarding personal liberties.
Source: Donald Trump Calls for Israeli-Style Racial Profiling — But Profiling Is a Disaster
Dispute ends after “three years of secret stupid legal nonsense.”
Source: Trademark dispute with Sky broadcasting sought name change for No Man’s Sky | Ars Technica
Source: Stop mass shootings now. – 9GAG
Decision likely underlines pivotal importance of the case for transatlantic data flows.
Source: In “an unusual move,” US government asks to join key EU Facebook privacy case | Ars Technica
Not to be outdone by Citigroup, AT&T has applied to trademark “AT&T THANKS.”
Source: Citigroup trademarks “THANKYOU” and sues AT&T for thanking clients | Ars Technica
In Australia, for example, e-voting is being used for the elections to the country’s Senate, but the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has refused to release the relevant software, despite a Senate motion and a freedom of information request. Being able to examine the code is a fundamental requirement, since there is no way of knowing what “black box” e-voting systems are doing with the votes that are entered.
Source: Australian Electoral Commission Refuses To Allow Researchers To Check E-Voting Software | Techdirt
The documents confirm that a little-known policing body called the Scottish Recording Centre (SRC) was given access to information logs that includes millions of communications data including phone activity, internet histories, and social media behaviour on Facebook.The confirmation that UK state spy agency GCHQ ran a specific programmed, called “MILKWHITE”, to share data with devolved policing and tax authorities is the first Snowden leak to directly implicate Scottish authorities in the controversial policy of ‘bulk data’ collection.
Source: Scottish Law Enforcement Also Apparently Hooked Up To NSA/GCHQ’s Data Firehose | Techdirt
The CIA will give the Senate intelligence oversight committee a closed briefing on how employees were held accountable and punished for their involvement with torture.
Source: CIA Director Promises Answers on Accountability for Torture
Fiber customers have two months to opt out of binding arbitration clause.
Source: Like Comcast, Google Fiber now forces customers into arbitration | Ars Technica
In the last two weeks we’ve received two notices of violations from AdSense, each of which seems more ridiculous than the other in some way, and which has us reconsidering our use of AdSense as a media property, as Google fails at distinguishing between reporting on bad things and celebrating those same things. In both cases, the “violation” involved a post that was many years old, so it’s unclear why Google suddenly discovered them. In both cases, the posts were basic reporting on something that had happened, and no rational and reasonable person would conclude they violated any policy that AdSense has. And, yet, in both cases, Google claimed they violated its policies, and threatened that if we were unable to sort through the 64,000 other posts on Techdirt to weed out the ones that somehow violate Googles bizarre and arbitrary morality police policies, we risk losing our account.
