Your browser history, IP addresses, online purchases etc all up for grabs without a warrant Following a decade-long legal battle, the details of a US national security letter (NSL) sent to ISP owner Nicholas Merrill can finally be revealed. The broad details have been known for some time, and a recent court decision all but listed the personal information that Merrill was told to hand over on all of his ISPs' …
Yep, amendments 4 and 6 to The Constitution, a bit of the 5th as well. The Supreme Court theoretically has the ability to disband and overturn all the decisions of the Secret Court, but they'd need someone to bring such a case to them first (Which is monumentally hard to do since a single denied appeal at any previous level kills that chance, and given that the records are sealed, it is nearly impossible to prove that the secret courts are, in fact, violating the constitution, so no grounds for appeal in the first place)
How do the 30k traffic deaths compare to firearms related fatalities (let's include deliberate explosive fatalities as well)?
Just adding to the point that in system deaths are generally far more common than those due to terrorist activity. Just far less politically newsworthy.
Firearm Homicides: 11 208 (all homicides 16 121)
Firearm Suicides: 21 175 (all suicides 41 149)
Firearm Accidental Discharge Deaths: 505
Firearm Discharge Death, Undetermined Intent: 281
All Firearms Deaths: 33 636
Unintentional Falls Deaths: 30 208
Unintentional Poisoning Deaths: 38 851
All Injury Deaths: 192 945
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/injury.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr64/nvsr64_02.pdf
So sorry for the sentence spacing but El Reg comments set a paragraph break after every hard return. Anyone know how to do a soft return here?
So sorry for the sentence spacing but El Reg comments set a paragraph break after every hard return. Anyone know how to do a soft return here?
The best I've found is to do a bulleted list, and make sure there are no breaks between any of the items. It's not great, but there you go...
Vic.
A cartoon in today's paper (LA Times) pretty much summed up the problem with Paris style attacks in the US. The character in the cartoon is checking the calendar on his mobile phone and realizes that there aren't any available slots left for mass shootings, they're all taken by homegrown nutters.
an ISP wouldn't have any reason to have collected any of that data... web history? um, its just packets on their network, the only place there's any history is on my browser. IP's of everyone I've communicated with? ok, they probably have email server logs IF I used their email servers, but that just shows the destination MX server address, not the end user. and my eCommerce? that was all SSL, at most they saw I access Amazon etc quite a lot but they have no visibility as to what I did there.
Interesting to read the list of data demands in the context of the UK's Investigatory
Powers Bill that is currently before Parliament and it's Internet Connnection Records (ICRs)...
What seems to be missing from the UK bill is consideration of the ISP customer relationship data...
>Your browser history, IP addresses, online purchases all up for grabs without a warrant
All the more reason to run the Tails OS iso in a VM without persistent storage for web browsing (can run in seamless mode with VirtualBox on all the major OS for free). Guess unless you only carry cash or buy prepaid cards they can still get your purchase info pretty easily but at least not from your ISP.
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