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Dan Lyons reporting for The Daily Beast reveals Facebook hired a public relations firm to pitch anti-Google stories.
Blogger Christopher Soghoian published emails from PR firm Burson- Marsteller about the negative stories about Google, USA Today reported about the attempts to spread the story and then Lyons unmasked Facebook as the client behind the campaign.
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The Supreme Court has held that an individual relinquishes any Fourth Amendment interest in information that he or she voluntarily discloses to a third party. Known as the "Third Party Doctrine," this controversial rule is increasingly problematic in an age where a large proportion of personal communications and transactions are carried out over the Internet. Internet users expose virtually all of the information they generate online-e-mails, web-surfing histories, search terms, and more-to online service providers. As such, many scholars have assumed that Internet information will be unprotected by the Fourth Amendment. Yet the information disclosed to these online third parties is generally not exposed to human beings at all; rather, it is processed entirely by automated equipment. Ne...
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A German company offers surveillance technology for use against political opponents.
In Russia, a startup company sells equipment to identify a single targeted voice in digital recordings of thousands of phone calls.
..., let alone China and Russia," said Christopher Soghoian, an online privacy advocate and graduate ...
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... or for other reasons.'' Proponent: Christopher Soghoian, Berkman Center for Internet & Society. 1...
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...See Christopher Soghoian, 8 Million Reasons for Real Surveillance ...
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By Barbara Ortutay
The Associated Press
... Burson-Marsteller contacted blogger Christopher Soghoian, an Indiana University graduate student w...
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NEW YORK - The intense rivalry between Facebook and Google just got juicier as characters behind the latest Silicon Valley drama evoked chatter of smear campaigns and secrecy. It took the once- secret blogger known as Fake Steve Jobs to help sort it all out.
Facebook hired a prominent public relations firm to try to plant stories harshly criticizing Google's privacy practices in leading news outlets. The efforts backfired when the firm approached a blogger who not only declined the assignment, but also went public with the exchange.
... Burson- Marsteller contacted blogger Christopher Soghoian, an Indiana University graduate student w...
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.... 4. Christopher Soghoian and Sid Stamm, "Certified Lies: Detecting...
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Is it safe in the clouds?
More specifically, is it safe to store your personal data in an online vault, a practice referred to as "cloud computing"?
...Recently, Christopher Soghoian, a Washington-based cybersecurity expert,...
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.... That gap in knowledge inspired Christopher Soghoian, a graduate student at the University of ...