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Canadian school bus driver wins privacy battle | CBC News
She had refused to let her employer do a background check on her because it was using a U.S.-based security firm.
Consumer Group Calls on Google to Offer Zero Personal Data Retention Policy; Seeks Meeting With Chairman Eric Schmidt About Privacy Concerns
In a letter to Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, Consumer Watchdog President Jamie Court and Policy Advocate John M. Simpson noted that the search engine Ask.Com offers the ability for users' personal data to be removed almost immediately from its servers wit
Wiretapping: Why Justice Lawyers Defied President Bush | Newsweek National News | Newsweek.com
The NSA's powerful computers became vast storehouses of "metadata." They collected the telephone numbers of callers and recipients in the United States, and the time and duration of the calls. They also collected and stored the subject lines of e-mails, t
Is There a Privacy Risk in Google Flu Trends? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
There is concern that health trending visualisations could be used to broadcast other kinds of health conditions (AIDS, for example) and lead to harm, social isolation and discrimination.
Thousands of Troops Are Deployed on U.S. Streets Ready to Carry Out "Crowd Control" | Rights and Liberties | AlterNet
Background: the First Brigade of the Third Infantry Division, three to four thousand soldiers, has been deployed in the United States as of October 1. Their stated mission is the form of crowd control they practiced in Iraq, subduing "unruly individuals,"
Why is a U.S. Army brigade being assigned to the "Homeland"? - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
The 1st BCT's soldiers also will learn how to use "the first ever nonlethal package that the Army has fielded," 1st BCT commander Col. Roger Cloutier said, referring to crowd and traffic control equipment and nonlethal weapons designed to subdue unruly or
How Loss of Privacy May Mean Loss of Security: Scientific American
"in assessing the changes in the expectations people have about privacy, it is important to recognize the granularity of personal control of data. Privacy is not a one-size-fits-all condition: Different people at different times have different preferences
Whos Snooping on You at Work? | New York Times Blog
A survey of 300 information technology professionals found that one in three of them snoop on colleagues, according to Reuters
Stark's atheist views break political taboo | SF Chronicle
Rep. Pete Stark of Fremont declaration of his atheism groundbreaking for US politicians and civil liberty. Might just be the start of a real division between church and state.
Twooced | Geek Gestalt - A blog by Daniel Terdiman - CNET News.com
The main question for me is: what right does an employer have to define who you are and your freedom of expression? Should citizens have the same rights as journalists?
Spitzer scandal unveils larger issue of surveillance by banks | New York Times
"Mr. Spitzer’s suspicious financial transactions at North Fork might never have been discovered were it not for a Suspicious Activity Report filed by HSBC"
Telecom Whistleblower on Massive Surveillance of mobile consumers | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Babak Pasdar, a computer security consultant, has gone public about his discovery of a mysterious "Quantico Circuit" while working for an unnamed major wireless carrier. Pasdar believes that this circuit gives the U.S. government direct, unfettered access
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