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US legislators voted to extend controversial provisions of the notorious Bush-era Patriot Act on Thursday. (more...)
As the Patriot Act comes up for reauthorization by Congress, it's time to reflect on the immense powers Americans have ceded to the government and potential for abuse by federal, state and local authorities. Last year, an FBI Inspector General report has excoriated the FBI Communications Analysis Unit for abusive warrantless surveillance of perhaps thousands of innocent people. FBI Director Robert Mueller promised Congress the FBI will be take steps to stop the abuses cited in the Inspector General's report. (more...)
Long-established privacy and cryptology website Cryptome.org was pulled offline on Wednesday after Microsoft launched a legal offensive over its publication of Redmond's guide to internet wiretapping. (more...)
Over the last few days, the blogosphere has been all a-twitter over Pennsylvania’s Lower Merion School District and its alleged privacy-violating practices. At first blush, this seems to be a case of privacy violation and school administrators not understanding that their authority ends at the edge of school property. But let's all keep in mind how often the first blush is wrong. (more...)
Law enforcement is tracking Americans' cell phones in real time—without the benefit of a warrant. (more...)
Over the weekend, Google announced significant changes to its new social networking service, Buzz. Responding to criticism (including EFF’s), Google moved away from the system in which Buzz automatically sets you up to follow the people you email and chat with most. instead, Google has adopted an auto-suggest model, in which you are shown the friend list with an option to de-select people before publishing the list. While a full opt-in model would be less likely to result in inadvertent disclosures of private information, this is a significant step forward. (more...)
Receiving a school-provided portable computer for your child to use at home should provide parents with a sense of reassurance regarding education and the advances of technology. For a family in Pennsylvania, however, attainment of one such notebook has led to a lawsuit being brought against the local School District following allegations of Web cam spying. (more...)
The assault on our constitutional rights continues, with ever more egregious incursions by over reaching government agencies. We have watched with alarm as the Brits have allowed their own ancient rights to dissolve before the relentless bullying of the once-soft, blob-like socialist nanny state harden into a coercive police state overseeing the most minute aspects of citizen's lives, down to and including what they put in the trash, how they "manage" their left-overs, and how they rear their children. Britons are notoriously the most "watched" people on earth; London has more video cams per person and per city block than any place on earth. David Hume, to name only one of dozens of thinkers in the liberal tradition of England, would be justly stunned at the deterioration of the one nation on earth that he claimed had more to do with the historical development of political liberty than any other. (more...)
When Christian Taylor stopped by the Sprint store in Daly City, Calif., last November, he was planning to buy around 30 BlackBerry handhelds. But a Sprint employee on the lookout for fraud grew suspicious about the address and other details relating to Taylor's company, "Hype Univercity," and called the police. Taylor was arrested on charges of felony identity fraud, his car was impounded, and his iPhone was confiscated and searched by police without a warrant. (more...)
When we check our email or log into social networks on our mobile phones, it’s natural that we trust it will bring us to the right place. Microsoft is reporting that some Hotmail users have been accidentally shown other users’ inboxes when using the service on their mobile. (more...)
Google has been threatened with legal action over their new Buzz social network just days after its launch. A privacy watchdog group has complained to federal regulators, saying the service violates federal consumer protection law. (more...)
It was a frequent outburst over a slew of Facebook updates and tweets as Google Inc.'s /quotes/comstock/15*!goog/quotes/nls/goog (GOOG 540.76, -2.46, -0.45%) Buzz, its latest foray into social networking, got the wrong kind of buzz. This was probably not the kind of viral chatter the top execs at the GooglePlex envisioned when they named, perhaps prematurely, their newest product Google Buzz. (more...)
The Internet is still in its infancy but it has already made us question many conventional notions of privacy, ownership and freedom. New technologies such as Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) and WiMax, which transform Internet access into a community experience, only complicate the issues further. (more...)
Google recently released Buzz, the company’s foray into the social networking world of microblogging. The service competes with other social sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Upon release, Buzz has been getting some criticism over its default privacy settings. (more...)
Over the past few months I've discovered several flaws in various email clients, which allow the sender of an email to track information about the recipient of an email. Information such as their location and what time they read the email. These are serious bugs, and they exist in widely used email client software. I've discovered problems in Apple Mail, the iPhone, Android Mail, K-9, Thunderbird 3, Outlook 2007 and a general bug involving webmail clients and DNS pre-fetching. (more...)
Shaken by a massive cyberattack in December that originated in China, Google is turning to the government’s top electronic spying operation, the National Security Agency (NSA), for help. The Internet search-engine giant has declined to reveal the nature of its collaboration with the NSA, but officials familiar with the partnership say it will allow the two organizations to share critical information without violating Google’s policies or exposing users’ searches or email accounts to the intelligence agency. (more...)
WASHINGTON--The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web sites customers visit and retain those logs for two years, a requirement that law enforcement believes could help it in investigations of child pornography and other serious crimes. (more...)
Reports have Google talking with the National Security Agency to investigate the recent cyberattack that targeting Google's operations in China. (more...)
China offers Western countries and businesses a deal with the devil -- play by our rules or face the consequences of crossing the world's most populous country and biggest consumer market. The consequences, large and small, have been embarrassing. President Barack Obama refused to see the Dalai Lama, when the exiled Tibetan leader was in Washington, for fear of offending China. In a remarkably craven act, Yahoo breached the privacy of its users and turned over email account information to Chinese police that resulted in four human rights activists being sentenced to long prison terms. (more...)
2009 September 25:
Novo Ordo upgrades its server and moves to a more reliable ISP.
2008 December 06:
Novo Ordo adds an anti-keylogging virtual keyboard for message creation
to our Sub Rosa
Private Email subscription service.
2008 November 02:
Novo Ordo adds an anti-keylogging virtual keyboard for password protection
to our Sub Rosa
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2008 March 30:
The domain ProtectedSpeech.us is now available as an address
for users of our Sub Rosa
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2008 February 17:
Novo Ordo announces Sub Rosa
Private Email, our new secure email subscription service.
2008 January 13:
Novo Ordo announces NoName
Free Anonymous Email, its first product offering.
2008 January 05:
Novo Ordo moves its servers to Panama in preparation
for new product offerings.
2007 November 10:
Novo Ordo begins alpha testing anonymous email service.
2007 October 16:
Novo Ordo goes live!