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Google plans to begin combining your data into a single cauldron on March 1. On that date, the search engine will combine your Web history with information gathered from products such as YouTube and Google Plus to create advertising and targeted reminders. The information can reveal sensitive information such as your interests, sexual orientation, religion and health concerns, EFF says.

EFF is offering step-by-step instructions on how to delete your Web history along with screen shots of the pages you will see.

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What Target discovered fairly quickly is that it creeped people out that the company knew about their pregnancies in advance.

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A user signing up for Gmail, for instance, might never have imagined that the content of his or her messages could affect the experience on seemingly unrelated Web sites such as YouTube. ...

The company said the change would simplify the company’s privacy policy — a move that regulators encouraged.

Still, some consumer advocates and lawmakers remained skeptical.

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[Short post written by two men. Guess what they think about it? Yeah. -L]

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A federal judge temporarily blocked Florida’s new law that requires welfare applicants to pass a drug test before receiving benefits on Monday, saying it may violate the Constitution’s ban on unreasonable searches and seizures.

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Lawmakers in three dozen states this year have proposed drug testing for people receiving benefits like welfare, unemployment assistance, job training, food stamps and public housing...

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By a 6-to-6 vote last month, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit cleared the way for a legal challenge against a dubious legacy of the George W. Bush administration: the wiretapping of Americans’ international communications without a warrant or adequate judicial supervision in antiterrorism investigations.

The tie decision, which allowed an earlier ruling to stand, was a well-deserved setback to the Justice Department’s accountability avoidance strategy. This Catch-22 says that because the wiretaps are secret, no one knows for certain whether they have actually been tapped, and that means no one has a right to sue the government.

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Both intimacy and performance are important parts of what makes social networks like Facebook compelling. Initially, the performance part was the profile, where you listed your biographical information, your likes and dislikes, your expressions of identity (in the narrow ways that Facebook allowed). The performance part was important for discovering new people and expanding your network, for actually forming the connections. The intimacy part was pretty much everything else: your status updates, messages, comments, photos, and videos. It consisted of the kind of stuff in the two videos above. It was what injected meaning into those connections that you’d made.
At every turn, Facebook seems to have subverted the intimacy of social experiences by turning them into public performances. 

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...superseded by the Patriot Act, which means that California police may not be able to easily grab your Kindle history – but there's not a corresponding protection against the feds, even for users in California.

Finally, it only applies to books and ebooks. It does nothing for materials outside that realm, which still leaves users subject to all manner of requests about online history or cell phone tracking (for example).

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Over the weekend, Dave Winer wrote an article at Scripting.com explaining how Facebook keeps track of where you are on the web after logging in without your consent. Nik Cubrilovic dug a little deeper, and discovered that Facebook can still track where you are, even if you log out. Facebook, for its part, has denied the claims. Regardless of who you believe, here's how to protect yourself, and keep your browsing history to yourself.

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Google+ users may be surprised to see their profile picture show up in Google search results.

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Rights group calls for investigation into report US intelligence agency aided New York police in snooping on minorities.

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Charlie Stross... joins the...chorus of people trying to make Google aware of just how dickish they’re being with this whole pseudonyms business... [his post is] worth reading for the borrowed list of programmer assumptions about human names alone, though it’s all good stuff.

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