Access Express | 03/21/13
Microsoft releases report on law enforcement requests
For the first time, Microsoft released a transparency report on the first time the number of government law enforcement requests it had received for data on its hundreds of millions of customers, joining the ranks of Google, Twitter and others...
via nytimes 
Staff Picks
Access has joined a coalition of internet advocacy organizations in a week of action to stop U.S. Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), which allows companies to share personal data with the government without oversight or safeguards...
via accessnow
Top Indonesian Internet Service Providers accused of spying on users
Three Indonesian Internet Service Providers (ISPs) Telkom, Biznet, and Matrixnet Global are under fire after being accused of spying on their users...
via techinasia
Busy Week in US Policy
Federal judge strikes down unconstitutional National Security Letters
In a momentous win for privacy, a federal judge ruled on a 2011 EFF petition, barring the issuance of NSLs to telecommunications providers. The NSL statute grants the FBI unchecked power to pry into the lives of people within the United States...
via eff
30,000 (and counting) websites rally to oppose CISPA
As members of the Internet Defense League, Reddit, Craigslist, and more than 30,000 other websites have expressed opposition to the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, a controversial cybersecurity bill recently reintroduced...
via mashable
Fixing "The Worst Law in Technology:" the draconian Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act bans “unauthorized access” of computers, but no one really knows what those words mean. Now, civil society organizations and sympathetic legislators are working to fix it...
via newyorker
Consensus builds to require warrants for email searches in the US
Republicans, Democrats, and government officials agreed at a House hearing on Tuesday that police should need a warrant to obtain people's emails and other private online messages from third-party providers...
via thehill
From the Access Community
The internet is a surveillance state
Cryptographer and security expert Bruce Schneier argues that the internet is a surveillance state where we're being tracked all the time, whether we know it or not. When what we do on the internet is combined with other data about us...
via cnn
Twitter agrees to block access to blacklisted content in Russia
The popular microblogging site Twitter has agreed to block access to accounts or posts that have been blacklisted by Russia's Federal Service for Supervision in Telecommunications, Information Technology and Mass Communications...
via themoscowtimes
Keeping Intellectual Property out of TAFTA
Access has joined a coalition of 35 civil society organizations urging the US and the EU to keep so-called “intellectual property” out of the negotiations for the EU-US Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA)...
via accessnow
Malaysia uses spyware against own citizens
Malaysia is among 25 countries using off-the-shelf spyware to keep tabs on citizens by secretly grabbing images off computer screens, recording video chats, turning on cameras and microphones, and logging keystrokes...
via themalaysianinsider
European Court: Pirate Bay co-founders lose free speech bid
The European Court of Human Rights rejected the complaint of the ‘The Pirate Bay’ co-founders against their criminal conviction for facilitating copyright infringement...
via article19
