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The Green Dam Phenomenon - WSJ.com
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The Chinese government may be backing down from its plan to install new "filtering" software, Green Dam, on all Chinese computers.
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More and more governments -- including democracies like Britain, Australia and Germany -- are trying to control public behavior online, especially by exerting pressure on Internet service providers. Green Dam has only exposed the next frontier in these efforts: the personal computer.
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Hackers: the China Syndrome | Popular Science
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For years, the U.S. intelligence community worried that China’s government was attacking our cyber-infrastructure. Now one man has discovered it’s worse: It’s hundreds of thousands of everyday civilians. And they’ve only just begun
Facebook privacy settings 'could mean users give away personal information' | Technology | guardian.co.uk
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"People don't even think this graph data, these connections between people, is private information, but it's very useful for certain kinds of individual," Joseph Bonneau, the paper's lead author, told the Guardian.
"It's something the intelligence services realised some time ago – when they wiretap a phone, the most useful information is who calls who, not what's actually said."
Identity fraudsters and phishers – scammers who pose as one of their target's friends, encouraging them to click on a message that downloads a virus onto a computer – are among the prime candidates for abusing such information.
"If you have a person you're targeting, you can use the Facebook public listing to look at their friends, compromise them and then see your target's information," Bonneau said.
Read me first: Google's surveillance is taking us further down the road to hell | Technology | The Guardian
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recently took another step along the path of surveillance as a service, launching what it called "interest-based advertising", and which everyone else calls "behavioural targeting".
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path of surveillance as a service, launching what it called "interest-based advertising",
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