Tag: privacy
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#DataDump: Clash, Collusion, Christina and more
Obama, NSA ‘Clash’ Over Spying on Private Company Nets* Collusion for Firefox Shows You Who’s Tracking You on the Web In Real Time* Collusion :: Add-ons for Firefox* Google Caught Violating Browser Privacy Settings to Track Users* Google Once Considered Issuing Digital Currency* Hackers penetrated NASA computers 13 times last year* Moon acts as mirror,…
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New World Next Week: Episode104 – Protest ‘Illegal’, FBI ‘Imam’, Google ‘Privacy’
Story #1: Goodbye, First Amendment: ‘Trespass Bill’ will make protest illegal // Story #2: Stratfor Leaks: ‘Ground Zero’ Imam An FBI Asset // Story #3: EU Wades Into Google Privacy Row
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Clock Counts Down As Google Privacy Change Looms
For the congenital procrastinators out there–and yes, you know who you are–don’t complain about not being warned. In less than 24 hours, Google will hit the switch and start linking your data across the company’s e-mail, video, social-networking, and other services.
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1/26 Defcon: Mega-Man, Bigger Brother
Mega-man: Bizarre rise & sudden downfall of Kim Dotcom // What is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement? // Say NO to ACTA // Big Brother Google Just Got Bigger // Legality of Mobile Phone Tracking Still Unclear Despite Supreme Court GPS Decision // Newt Gingrich wants to make the moon the 51st state // Why crimes…
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court ok’s naked body scanners, rejects constitutional challenge
from threat level: A federal appeals court on Friday unanimously declined to block the government from using intrusive body scanners across airports nationwide, saying it is “not persuaded by any of the statutory or constitutional arguments” against them. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit was deciding a constitutional and procedural…
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7/14 Defcon: Murdoch’s Watergate, Military Meltdown & More
Hacking scandal could be Murdoch’s Watergate* Video: Rupert Murdoch’s son could be prosecuted by US* Video: Murdoch papers could have hacked US phones as well* Update: News Corp UK newspaper CEO brooks resigns* Washington Post website jobs section hacked* Anonymous hacks Monsanto computers; Posts employee info* Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilton data* ‘Military…
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fbi agents get ‘leeway’ to push privacy bounds
fbi power to snoop expanded (again) from nytimes: The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents, allowing them more leeway to search databases, go through household trash or use surveillance teams to scrutinize the lives of people who have attracted their attention. The F.B.I. soon plans to issue…
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DHS to Gain ‘Autonomy’ Under Obama Cybersecurity Plan
Obama has proposed legislation that will give the Department of Homeland Security more “autonomy” in its effort to protect civilian computer networks from ostensible cyber attack, according to Information Week.
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As Smartphone Scandal Grows, Tech Firms Run For Cover
Recent revelations that Apple’s iPhone and iPad, Google’s Android and Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 operating systems collect, store and transmit records of users’ physical locations to central databases–secretly, and without consent–have ignited a firestorm over Americans’ privacy rights in an age of hypersurveillance.
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Google Collected Part of Kids’ Social Security Numbers for Art Contest
Google asked parents to enter the last four digits of their children’s Social Security Numbers, as well as their city of birth and age, as a condition to enter a Google-sponsored art contest.
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2010: the year the internet went to war
from threat level: It was a year without parallel. Threat Level’s bread-and-butter themes of censorship, hacking, security, privacy, copyright and cyberwar were all represented in tug-of-war struggles with unprecedented outcomes. Google defeated China’s censors, but caved to corporate censorship in the United States. The largest computer-crime case ever prosecuted ended in the nation’s longest prison…
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outrage at tsa grows as ‘opt-out day’ planned for nov24
cnn reports growing outrage against porno scanners from threat level: Air travelers, mark your calendar. An activist opposed to the new invasive body scanners in use at airports around the country just designated Wednesday, Nov. 24 as a National Opt-Out Day. He’s encouraging airline passengers to decline the TSA’s technological strip searches en masse on…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: French Fight Back, Google Slapped Down, Pilot Stands Up
Story #1: Will Americans Follow French Example of Mass Civil Unrest? // Story #2: Corps & Govts: Violating Privacy with Legal Ease Related: Pentagon Braces for Release of 400,000 Iraq Files on WikiLeaks // Story #3: Pilot Refuses Naked Body Scanner & ‘Pat Down’
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Corps & Govts: Violating Privacy With Legal Ease
Google Inc. violated Canadian privacy law by collecting personal information from unsecured wireless networks across the country for its Street View service
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10/14 Defcon: Settlements, Citizenship & Commercial Gain
School district pays $610k to settle webcam spying lawsuits // Comcast pushes bot alert program nationwide // Facebook is ‘killing privacy for commercial gain’