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Google’s Wi-Spying and Intelligence Ties Prompt Call for Congressional Hearing

By Gideon Swift | Published: July 20, 2010
Source: PRNewswire SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Citing new information about Google’s classified government contracts and the Internet giant’s admitted Wi-Spying activity, Consumer Watchdog today said it is more imperative than ever for the Energy and Commerce Committee to conduct hearings into possible privacy violations by Google. In a letter to Committee Chairman [...]
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Congressman introduces resolution to protect citizens who videotape cops

By Gideon Swift | Published: July 19, 2010
Source: BlackListed News A U.S. Congressman has introduced a resolution that would protect citizens who videotape cops in public from getting arrested on state wiretapping charges.   Source: Bill Text HCON 298 IH 111th CONGRESS 2d Session H. CON. RES. 298 Expressing the sense of Congress that the videotaping or photographing of police engaged in [...]
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UK: Police number plate recognition camera rules tightened

By Gideon Swift | Published: July 4, 2010
Source: BBC Police cameras that record motorists’ movements must be more tightly regulated, Home Secretary Theresa May has ordered. The 4,000-strong automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) network logs more than 10 million vehicles every day. The government is to look at limiting access to the database of 7.6 billion images, details of number plates and [...]
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Facebook just made opting-in uncomfortable

By Military | Published: July 1, 2010
There's a new privacy-disclosure requirement for apps on Facebook, and some users find it has a similar effect as calorie counts printed on a menu: Too much info kills your appetite. Facebook - Social network - Online Communities - Google - Socia...
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Facebook tightens up on user data

By Military | Published: July 1, 2010
The social network rolls out changes to its site in its continuing efforts to appease critics of its privacy practices.
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Facebook apps must disclose profile info used

By Military | Published: June 30, 2010
Facebook is rolling out a new feature that requires outside applications and websites to tell users exactly what parts of their profile they need to access in order to work. Facebook - Social network - Online Communities - Privacy - Bret Taylor
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Android App Aims to Allow Wiretap-Proof Cell Phone Calls

By Gideon Swift | Published: June 27, 2010
Worried about the NSA, the FBI, criminals or cyberspies electronically eavedropping on your private phone calls? There may be an untappable app for that. On Tuesday, an independent hacker and security researcher who goes by the handle Moxie Marlinspike and his Pittsburgh-based startup Whisper Systems launched free public betas for two new privacy-focused programs on [...]
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Twitter settles with Feds over security lapses

By Military | Published: June 24, 2010
Twitter has agreed to settle charges by federal regulators that it put the privacy of its users at risk by failing to protect them from data security lapses last year that let hackers access their accounts. Twitter - Data security - Privacy - So...
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Supreme Court: Officer’s Texting Not Private

By Gideon Swift | Published: June 20, 2010
The Supreme Court said Thursday a California police officer’s privacy was not breached when his superiors read transcripts of hundreds of his text messages. The Ontario Police Department was looking at the transcripts as part of an effort to determine whether it was providing an adequate quota of monthly pager texts to its officers. The [...]
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