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Two buildings that enhance downtown Kingston
Very special public-administration buildings are situated face to face on two King Street sites: between Barry Street and Tower Street. They are prominent structures, officially referred to as Public Building East and Public Building West. Both buildings are more than a century old, but they command a more stately presence than latter-day government buildings within the downtown precinct.
Fixing the Stored Communications Act’s Secret Search Problem
If you’re reading this article, you—like many people today—probably have a lot of sensitive information stored in the cloud. You might have data on cloud-based email services like Gmail; on cloud storage services like Dropbox, OneDrive, and iCloud; on one of the many social network platforms like Twitter and Instagram; and possibly on all of the above. Today, 10 years after the Snowden revelations, most people know that the government can access vast quantities of digital information.
They Know Where You Are (But They Shouldn’t)
Photograph: Jeff Ruane / flickr Did you know that when you buy a mobile phone, you waive any right to privacy in your movements? Did you know that your voluntary decision to use a mobile phone is a voluntary decision to let the government track you wherever you go? Such a state of affairs might seem to defy common sense. It might seem like the premise of a dystopian science fiction movie.
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A User's Guide to the Stored Communications Act, and a Legislator's Guide to Amending it
36 Pages Posted: 5 Aug 2003 Last revised: 6 Jul 2016 Abstract Americans care deeply about their Internet privacy. But if they want to know how federal law protects the privacy of their stored Internet communications, they'll quickly learn that it's surprisingly difficult to figure out.
The Next Generation Communications Privacy Act
In 1986, Congress enacted the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) to regulate government access to Internet communications and records. ECPA is widely regarded as outdated, and ECPA reform is now on the Congressional agenda. At the same time, existing reform proposals retain the structure of the 1986 Act and merely tinker with a few small aspects of the statute.
Google has captured your mind
(Kuzma via iStock/Salon) Searches reveal who we are and how we think. True intellectual privacy requires safeguarding these records Neil Richards February 27, 2015 3:20AM (UTC) Excerpted from "Intellectual Privacy: Rethinking Civil Liberties in the Digital Age" The Justice Department’s subpoena was straightforward enough.
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