Tag: google
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Privacy Fears Mount As Ad Targeting Grows
In the quest for better targeted advertising, marketers are using high-tech tools that can pinpoint a person’s location, demographics and habits, raising the hackles of privacy activists.
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Google Admits Harvesting Wi-fi Data With Street View Cars
Google has admitted that it has been recording data transmissions on Wi-Fi networks using its Street View cars.
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Defcon 4/22: Takedowns, Lockups & Predictive Analytics
Google exposes government takedown requests* Google: US demanded user info 3,500 times in 6 months* Google hackers stole source code of global password system* Second banker accused of stealing high-frequency trading code* McAfee antivirus program locks up pc’s worldwide* Crime prediction software is here & it’s a very bad idea* Precrime in Florida: IBM’s predictive…
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Portland Pimps to Be ‘Ultra-High Speed’ Google Guinea Pig
The City of Portland, Oregon says it’s ready to be one of Google’s test run fiber-to-the-home projects, and how: “No city in the USA is as ready as Portland to launch a citywide or scaled test bed for ultra high speed open platform broadband,” its response to Google’s Request for Proposals proudly declares.
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Defcon 3/25: Killswitch, Siphons & Existential Threats
Large Hadron Collider cranked to ‘maximum redline power’ // US Secret Service paid TJX hacker $75k a year // Your health, tax & search data siphoned // Why CNN exec fears social-networking sites // Google exits China – except for part known as Hong Kong // Chinese media: Google is tied to US intelligence
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Defcon 3/18: Cyberpocalypse, Command & Control
US to roll out major broadband policy // Google ‘99.9%’ certain to pull China plug // FBI uses phony profiles on social networks to track suspects // Your new Facebook friend: the IRS
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‘virtual flag terrorism’ is next threat
webster tarpley: US readies cyberwar, virtual flag terrorism from russia today: Cyber wars and cyber security are no longer fictional plots from science fiction movies. They are very real and very serious concerns for the American people, being tracked by politicians and the government in Washington. Webster Tarpley gives his opinion on the seriousness of…
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Defcon 3/9: Einstein, CyberShield & Serious Defects
Obama’s cybersecurity initiative puts NSA in driver’s seat // Fmr DNI calls for ‘re-engineering’ the internet // Time’s running out – Einstein’s coming: Cybershield disclosed by White House // Uncle Cyber Scam wants you // Cyberczar Schmidt says ‘there is no cyberwar’
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Defcon 2/25 – Cryptome, Catastrophe, Echelon & CERN
Microsoft takes down whistleblower site, Cryptome.org* Update: Cryptome restored after Microsoft change of heart* Cyber attacks will ‘catastrophically’ spook public, warns GCHQ* Intel hit by cyber attack* Playstation 3: The future of big brother surveillance?* Chinese programmer fingered in Google attacks* US pinpoints coder behind Google attack* Echelon computers can’t cope with bad lines* Italian…
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defcon 2/10: broadband, threats & censorship protests
google to offer ‘ultra high-speed’ broadband in US* can google protect its users while working with the nsa?* US faces serious threats in cyberspace says john brennan* chavez puts venezuela under ‘electricity emergency’* australian govt websites face censorship protest* family spends $5000 per year on screen-related services* seti opens all data & coding to the…
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be evil: google to enlist nsa to help it ward off cyberattacks
google re-establishes relationship with government spies from danger room: The company once known for its “don’t be evil” motto is now in bed with the spy agency known for the mass surveillance of American citizens. The National Security Agency is widely understood to have the government’s biggest and smartest collection of geeks — the guys…
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defcon 1/28: real-time tracking, cia connections & more
‘defects’ in e-passports allow real-time tracking*china to US: shut up about ‘so-called internet freedom’*google’s china hypocrisy ignores deep cia connections*google toolbar caught tracking users when ‘disabled’*oracle software & the cia*80% of fed sites miss dns security deadline*paypal freezes wikileaks account* computers down at all 168 california dmv offices*2nd US man admits ddos attack on scientology*internet…
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censorship, searches, browsers & the spectrum band
china monitoring billions of texts as censorship increasesfrom telegraph: Customers of China’s two largest mobile phone networks, China Mobile and China Unicom, have had their texting service blocked after sending risqué messages, the state media claims. The disclosure comes as the country is embroiled in a dispute with Google. On Tuesday the internet giant said…