[governance] Microsoft releases first report on law enforcement requests... and 11 other stories

Thu Mar 21 17:08:07 EDT 2013

Internet spring rising against cyber gulag

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Date: Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:28 PM
Subject: BREAKING: Microsoft releases first report on law enforcement
requests... and 11 other stories
To: Louis Pouzin <pouzin at well.com>

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 Access Express | 03/21/13

Microsoft releases report on law enforcement
requests<https://www.accessnow.org/page/m/3717cc5b/13a4bd0a/73f3d34d/1de54d47/3719298195/VEsD/>

For the first time, Microsoft released a transparency report on the first
time the number of government law enforcement requests it had received for
data on its hundreds of millions of customers, joining the ranks of Google,
Twitter and others...
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Week of action opposing
CISPA<https://www.accessnow.org/page/m/3717cc5b/13a4bd0a/73f3d34d/1de54d43/3719298195/VEsHBQ/>

Access has joined a coalition of internet advocacy organizations in a week
of action to stop U.S. Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act
(CISPA), which allows companies to share personal data with the government
without oversight or safeguards...
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 Busy Week in US Policy

Federal judge strikes down unconstitutional National Security
Letters<https://www.accessnow.org/page/m/3717cc5b/13a4bd0a/73f3d34d/1de54d7b/3719298195/VEsEBQ/>

In a momentous win for privacy, a federal judge ruled on a 2011 EFF
petition, barring the issuance of NSLs to telecommunications providers. The
NSL statute grants the FBI unchecked power to pry into the lives of people
within the United States...

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30,000 (and counting) websites rally to oppose
CISPA<https://www.accessnow.org/page/m/3717cc5b/13a4bd0a/73f3d34d/1de54d77/3719298195/VEsEAA/>

As members of the Internet Defense League, Reddit, Craigslist, and more
than 30,000 other websites have expressed opposition to the Cyber
Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, a controversial
cybersecurity bill recently reintroduced...

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 Fixing "The Worst Law in Technology:" the draconian Computer Fraud and
Abuse Act<https://www.accessnow.org/page/m/3717cc5b/13a4bd0a/73f3d34d/1de54d73/3719298195/VEsFBQ/>

The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act bans “unauthorized access” of computers,
but no one really knows what those words mean. Now, civil society
organizations and sympathetic legislators are working to fix it...
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Consensus builds to require warrants for email searches in the
US<https://www.accessnow.org/page/m/3717cc5b/13a4bd0a/73f3d34d/1de54d6f/3719298195/VEsFAA/>

Republicans, Democrats, and government officials agreed at a House hearing
on Tuesday that police should need a warrant to obtain people's emails and
other private online messages from third-party providers...
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 From the Access Community
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The internet is a surveillance
state<https://www.accessnow.org/page/m/3717cc5b/13a4bd0a/73f3d34d/1de54d6b/3719298195/VEsCBQ/>

Cryptographer and security expert Bruce Schneier argues that the internet
is a surveillance state where we're being tracked all the time, whether we
know it or not. When what we do on the internet is combined with other data
about us...
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Twitter agrees to block access to blacklisted content in
Russia<https://www.accessnow.org/page/m/3717cc5b/13a4bd0a/73f3d34d/1de54d67/3719298195/VEsCAA/>

The popular microblogging site Twitter has agreed to block access to
accounts or posts that have been blacklisted by Russia's Federal Service
for Supervision in Telecommunications, Information Technology and Mass
Communications...
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Keeping Intellectual Property out of
TAFTA<https://www.accessnow.org/page/m/3717cc5b/13a4bd0a/73f3d34d/1de54d63/3719298195/VEsDBQ/>

Access has joined a coalition of 35 civil society organizations urging the
US and the EU to keep so-called “intellectual property” out of the
negotiations for the EU-US Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA)...
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Malaysia uses spyware against own
citizens<https://www.accessnow.org/page/m/3717cc5b/13a4bd0a/73f3d34d/1de54d9f/3719298195/VEsDAA/>

Malaysia is among 25 countries using off-the-shelf spyware to keep tabs on
citizens by secretly grabbing images off computer screens, recording video
chats, turning on cameras and microphones, and logging keystrokes...
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European Court: Pirate Bay co-founders lose free speech
bid<https://www.accessnow.org/page/m/3717cc5b/13a4bd0a/73f3d34d/1de54d9b/3719298195/VEsABQ/>

The European Court of Human Rights rejected the complaint of the ‘The
Pirate Bay’ co-founders against their criminal conviction for facilitating
copyright infringement...
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