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08 Aug 09
Daily Express | UK News :: Sin bins for worst families
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Private security guards will also be sent round to carry out home checks, while parents will be given help to combat drug and alcohol addiction.
25 Jan 09
Hal Roberts / Popular Chinese Filtering Circumvention Tools DynaWeb FreeGate, GPass, and FirePhoenix Sell User Data
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Three of the circumvention tools — DynaWeb FreeGate, GPass, and FirePhoenix — used most widely to get around China’s Great Firewall are tracking and selling the individual web browsing histories of their users. Data about aggregate usage of users of the tools is published freely. You can see, for example, that the three sites most visited by users of these circumvention tools are live.com, google.com, and secretchina.com. Aggregate data like this is a terrific resource for those of us interested in researching circumvention tool usage, and not much of a privacy risk for the circumventing users if it is only stored (as well as displayed) in the aggregate.
14 Jun 08
Technology Review: The Talk of the Town: You
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"So my philosophy is, why hide it?"
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If we don't like that conclusion, we may gravitate to the opposite pole: the absolutism of organizations like the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the ACLU, which tend to construe any collection and analysis of personal data by government agencies (and to a lesser extent by corporations) as potentially violating the U.S. Constitution's Fourth Amendment guarantee of citizens' rights "to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures."
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