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Privacy

Submission + - Canadian Gov't: No Expectation Of Privacy On Net (tvo.org) 2

The_AV8R writes: "In a recent interview, Peter Van Loan, the new Canadian Public Safety minister, says ISPs should be able to provide private user information without a warrant. He even goes as far as denying that his predecessor promised never to ever allow the police to wiretap the Internet without a warrant, even when presented with an audio clip proving otherwise. The interview was conducted by Canadian tech podcast Search Engine and posted on June 26th. He even went as far as saying, in reference to IP addresses, names, cell phone numbers or email addresses:

[...] that is not the kind of information about which Canadians have a legitimate expectation of privacy

"

Privacy

Submission + - IPhone Takes Screenshots of Everything You Do (wired.com)

The_AV8R writes: "Jonathan Zdziarski showed that every time you press the Home button on your iPhone, a screencap is taken in order to produce a visual effect. This image is then cached and deleted. He says that there have been cases of law enforcement looking up sex offender's old data and checking recovered screenshots."

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