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I got asked to stop taking photographs on a RyanAir flight earlier in the week. When I asked the attendant why, he couldn't answer. So I didn't stop. Saved By: webponce | View Details | Give Thanks
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Chances are that as you read this article, it is passing over part of AT&T's network. That matters, because last week AT&T announced that it is seriously considering plans to examine all the traffic it carries for potential violations of U.S. intellectual Saved By: uribudnik | View Details | Give Thanks
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interesting feedback to Google Reader's newsfeed-like functionality. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks
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Interesting backlash to Google's underhanded attempt to "social-networkify" their apps, starting with Google Reader. Saved By: Matt | View Details | Give Thanks

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added 2007 Sun Dec 2 7:00:00 by unknown user
As follow-up to Ben's look at Facebook's Beacon system, I began investigating the extent of its privacy implications. What I found is extremely disconcerting. Facebook is collecting information about user actions on affiliate sites regardless of whether or not the user chose to opt out, and regardless of whether or not the user is logged into Facebook at that time. The evidence I present below directly contradicts both public statements made by Facebook, and direct email correspondence from their privacy department, demonstrating that Beacon is a serious threat to user privacy. Saved By: Phillip Jeffrey | View Details | Give Thanks
added 2007 Tue Nov 27 7:00:00 by unknown user
Columnist Cory Doctorow describes how Facebook and other social networks have built-in self-destructs: They make it easy for you to be found by the people you're looking to avoid. Saved By: Phillip Jeffrey | View Details | Give Thanks
added 2007 Mon Nov 26 7:00:00 by unknown user
Excellent post by Jason Calacanis on Facebook's current advertising strategy. Saved By: Daniel Andrlik | View Details | Give Thanks
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added 2007 Wed Jul 18 7:00:00 by unknown user
MS would like to serve ads based on all the human-addressable content on your hard drive. Instinctively it feels wrong, but what if it did make ads fewer because of greater precision? Saved By: Todd Sieling | View Details | Give Thanks
added 2007 Mon Jun 11 9:40:01 by newstrackern
There's a huge discussion over Google Street Views right now, and although many say there's no expectation of privacy on a public street, it's still under much debate.
added 2007 Sun Jun 10 7:00:00 by unknown user
A great write up of the loss of privacy and our ambivalence about it.
added 2007 Tue Jun 5 7:00:00 by unknown user
I am constantly fascinated by the level openess in online self-expression. This is a very interesting read on the subject.
added 2007 Thu May 24 5:15:30 by Aidenag
Google, the world's biggest search engine, is setting out to create the most comprehensive database of personal information ever assembled, one with the ability to tell people how to run their lives.
added 2007 Wed May 23 8:29:39 by TheAttacks
IF YOU thought you could protect your privacy on the web by lying about your personal details, think again. In online communities at least, entering fake details such as a bogus name or age may no longer prevent others from working out exactly who you are.
added 2007 Wed May 23 8:18:01 by berkeley
It looks more like the latest in saucepan technology than the future of crime fighting. But police are confident that this miniature remote- controlled helicopter will be an invaluable weapon in the war against wrongdoers. The Microdrone measures only 2ft between the tips of its eight rotor blades,
added 2007 Tue May 22 15:42:34 by engineer
Under the Real ID Act, U.S. residents will need a federally approved ID card to travel on an airplane, open a bank account, collect Social Security payments or take advantage of nearly any government service.
added 2007 Mon May 21 1:23:32 by Aidenag
A civil liberties group representing 16 attorneys of detainees at Guantanamo Bay on Thursday sued the National Security Agency and the Justice Department, claiming that the government illegally spied on the lawyers with warrantless wiretaps and has refused to turn over records of the snooping.
added 2007 Sun May 20 6:55:30 by Beau7890
Richard Guthrie, a 92-year-old Army veteran, was one of those victims. He ended up on scam artists' lists because his name, like millions of others, was sold by large companies to telemarketing criminals, who then turned to major banks to steal his life's savings.
added 2007 Sat May 19 5:26:41 by Aidenag
It doesn't much matter whether President Bush was the one who phoned Attorney General Ashcroft's hospital room in 2004. It matters however, whether the president was willing to have his aides try to strong-arm him into overruling the DOJ's legal views. It matters whether the president, once that failed, was willing to proceed with a program.
added 2007 Sat May 5 16:59:52 by vaness
Many, especially historians, complain that e-mail is too ethereal and that communication is being lost to future generations. Now, the British Library is trying to do something about it.
added 2007 Tue Apr 17 7:41:50 by berkeley
"This bill establishes a massive, centrally-coordinated database of highly personal information about American citizens: at a minimum their name, date of birth, place of residence, Social Security number, and physical and possibly other characteristics."
added 2007 Mon Apr 16 5:35:06 by Beau7890
Some lending companies with access to a national database that contains confidential information on tens of millions of student borrowers have repeatedly searched it in ways that violate federal rules, raising alarms about data mining and abuse of privacy, government and university officials said.
added 2007 Sat Apr 14 0:21:31 by idyll
The Bush administration asked Congress on Friday to expand the number of people it can subject to electronic surveillance in the United States.
added 2007 Sun Apr 8 2:58:30 by berkeley
The New Hampshire House voted overwhelmingly yesterday to reject the federal Real ID Act as amounting to the creation of a national ID card. The House voted 268-8 to send the bill to the Senate. The legislation would bar the state from complying with a federal act that sets standards for driver's licenses.
added 2007 Wed Mar 28 20:25:31 by populist
New report says citizens are denied commercial services because their names are similar to those of suspected criminals.