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We're close to strengthening the privacy of your cell phone's location! (But only in California.)
August 27, 2012
FROM NEXTGOV
On Wednesday, an American legislature took the most affirmative step so far to limit cell-phone location tracking by law enforcement. The California Location Privacy Act, passed with bipartisan support by the state's Assembly, could protect the location data created by citizens' cell phones, tablets and computers. Under current law, police ...
Nine concrete, specific things we actually know about how social media shape elections
August 23, 2012
FROM NEXTGOV
Nearly a quarter of American time spent on the Internet is spent on Facebook. 15 percent of online Americans tweet. Two-thirds of Americans use a social network. And there's an election in November. Opinions about the Internet's potential effects on politics range from the thoughtlessly utopian to the haughtily dour. ...
Finally, a new bill requires police get a judge's approval before they see your texts or location
August 15, 2012
FROM NEXTGOV
A month ago, we learned that more (and maybe many, many more) than 1.3 million people's cell phone data were handed over to US law enforcement agencies in 2011 alone. Text messages, caller locations, and records of who called whom and for how long had all been shared without a ...
In past four years, universities began preserving the web
July 6, 2012
FROM NEXTGOV
To paraphrase the Chief Justice, every day, objects cannot be in an infinite number of places -- precious, historic objects especially. So traditionally, when it came time for an author's notebooks or collected letters to be preserved, archives and special collections had to fight (and pay) for the right to ...
