Tag: privacy
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Defcon 9/17: The Moon & Malware, The Cloud & Psyops
Lawmakers criticize obama spacepanel for dissing moon plan // pressure builds on obama to appoint cybersecurity coordinator // uk police ‘encouraged’ to hack more // hathaway on cyber security for the 1st time after leaving the white house // white house collects web users’ data without notice
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bill would give president emergency control of internet
from antifascist calling: You have to hand it to congressional Democrats. Mendacious grifters whose national security agenda is virtually indistinguishable from Bushist Republicans, when it comes to rearranging proverbial deck chairs on the Titanic, the party of “change” is second to none in the “all terrorism all the time” department. While promising to restore the…
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google ‘opt -out’ protects privacy by moving users to remote village
from onion news network: Web users who choose to move to the desolate village are guaranteed an environment free from Google products & natural light from the sun.
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chips in official id cards raise privacy fears
from ap: Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he’d bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of strangers, wirelessly, without ever leaving his car. It took him 20 minutes to strike hacker’s gold. Zipping…
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cyber/spacewar: black holes, false claims & digital warfare
cyber czar position will be announced this week a favorite emerges in obama’s cyberczar searchfrom time: Tom Davis, a moderate Republican from Virginia, has emerged as a leading candidate for the Obama Administration’s newly created position of cybersecurity czar. Sources familiar with the White House’s deliberations on the subject say Obama officials feel a Washington…
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#CyberSpaceWar: Obamessiah Meets the Cyberczar
cybersecurity: obama’s promise to trash the constitution as the white house creates new cyberspace watchdogfrom dpa: The White House Friday moved to stem escalating cyber crime as threats to internet security and wireless technology grow at an alarming pace. US President Barack Obama announced the creation of a White House office that will coordinate protection…
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spying across the pond: nau/eu to trade private data
from new york times: The United States and the European Union are nearing completion of an agreement allowing law enforcement and security agencies to obtain private information — like credit card transactions, travel histories and Internet browsing habits — about people on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. The potential agreement, as outlined in…
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military to ‘recruit or hire bloggers’ & intellipedia
military report: secretly ‘recruit or hire bloggers’from danger room: A study, written for U.S. Special Operations Command, suggested “clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers.” Since the start of the Iraq war, there’s been a raucous debate in military circles over how to handle blogs – and the servicemembers who want to keep them. One faction…
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facebook wants your bloodtype
from tech.co.uk: An initiative in the US aimed at increasing blood transfusion stocks now allows Facebook to register their blood type and willingness to give blood. The scheme is the brainchild of Takes All Types (TAT), a non-profit organisation dedicated to creating the first national network for blood donation in the US. According to TAT…
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biometric borders, lockheed, background checks & id
eu plans biometric border checksfrom time: It is a very 21st century conundrum: how can modern, open democracies provide basic homeland security in a world with nearly limitless mobility? On Wednesday, the European Commission tried to answer that by unveiling a border management plan calling for fingerprinting all foreign visitors to the European Union. lockheed…
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oregon: ground zero in fight against riaa
from computerworld: Oregon is fast becoming Ground Zero in the contentious battle between the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the tens of thousands of consumers it accuses of illegal music sharing. The state Attorney General’s office this week filed an appeal in U.S. District Court in Oregon calling for an immediate investigation of…
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data on americans mined for terror risk
from ap: The FBI is gathering and sorting information about Americans to help search for potential terrorists, insurance cheats and crooked pharmacists, according to a government report obtained Tuesday. Records about identity thefts, real estate transactions, motor vehicle accidents and complaints about Internet drug companies are being searched for common threads to aid law enforcement…
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google ranked ‘worst’ on privacy
from bbc: Google has the worst privacy policy of popular net firms, says a report. Rights group Privacy International rated the search giant as “hostile” to privacy in a report ranking web firms by how they handle personal data. The group said Google was leading a “race to the bottom” among net firms many of…