Librarian fights back against FBI and wins the right to speak about unconstitutional gag order

Last year the Internet Archive, a California based digital library, received a National Security Letter (NSL) from the FBI requesting access to personal information (name, address and electronic communication records) related to a specific user.   
Contained within the letter was a gag order, a Statute of the 2001 Patriot Act, which prevented the Internet Archive’s Digital Librarian from discussing the request [...]

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How much would you sell your personal privacy for?

A bar of chocolate or a trip to Paris, apparently.  That’s what the results of a recent ’social engineering’ survey carried out by Infosecurity Europe revealed.  
Although the number of people willing to share their e-mail passwords, date of birth and contact details with complete strangers (on the street!) was down on last year, it was still staggeringly high.   [...]

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