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DailyTech - Court Finds File Hashes Subject to Fourth Amendment Protection
Federal agents seeking to generate MD5 hashes from files on a suspect’s hard drive must now obtain a warrant before doing so, says a Pennsylvania U.S. District Court, as such an act constitutes a government search protected by the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
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Web sites embrace human rights guidelines - Tech and gadgets- msnbc.com
Leading Internet companies, long criticized by human rights groups for their business dealings in China, are agreeing to new guidelines that seek to limit what data they should share with authorities worldwide and when they should do so.
The guidelines, to be announced Tuesday, call for Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to try to reduce the scope of government requests that appear to conflict with free speech and other human rights principles.
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Make a Faraday Cage Wallet - Wired How-To Wiki
RFID tags identifying who and -- gasp! —- where you are can be found in passports, ATM cards, credit cards and some state-issued ID cards. The same technology will possibly even be used in paper money in the near future.
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Baltimore City Paper | Serious Business: Anonymous Takes On Scientology (and Doesn't Afraid of Anything) | Feature
Anonymous was born on an online image board, devoted mainly to pictures and discussions having to do with anime--Japanese animation. The site, 4chan.org, created in 2003 by an administrator who goes by the name "moot," was based on a Japanese forum whose founder believed that by making users anonymous their arguments would be judged on their own merits.
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Wired Campus: U. of Tennessee-Knoxville Student at Center of Palin E-Mail Hacking Probe - Chronicle.com
Newspapers in Tennessee are reporting that a University of Tennessee at Knoxville student may be at the center of the investigation of who hacked into the Yahoo e-mail account of Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee.
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They know where you live: big council is watching you - Technology - smh.com.au
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Car tracker devices 'drive employees over edge' - BizTech - Technology
Employers are fitting out their fleets of company cars with invasive GPS tracking systems despite claims the technology unnecessarily invades staff privacy and contributed to the suicide of a Telstra linesman last year.
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With Google Street View There's No Privacy Even for Larry Page - Offbeat News - InfoNIAC
The United States Legal and Policy Centre (NLPC) has purportedly taken the pictures of the house of Google co-founder Larry Page using the mapping service of his own company.
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Slashdot | Logged In or Out, Facebook Is Watching You
Social networking site Facebook is able to track the buying habits of its users on affiliated third-party sites even when they are logged out of their account or have opted out of its controversial 'Beacon' tracking service.
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Newsvine - Microsoft, Google back broad privacy legislation
Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. told lawmakers Wednesday that Congress should pass basic privacy legislation to protect information about consumers, such as the data being gathered about people's Web surfing habits in order to pinpoint Internet advertising.
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U.S., EU near deal on protecting privacy - Security- msnbc.com
Privacy rights vs. terror fights: The EU and the United States are close to agreeing on how to protect personal and private data while still letting law enforcement officials share information to combat organized crime and terrorism.
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DIY abortions in fifteen minutes - Local & National - News - Belfast Telegraph
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Can authorities spy on your private e-mail? | Kentucky Enquirer | nky.com
A law that allows the government to read private e-mails without a warrant survived a court challenge Friday in Cincinnati, prompting one judge to accuse his colleagues of trampling civil rights.
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One Subpoena Is All It Takes to Reveal Your Online Life - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
They never talk about subpoenas. Yet in the United States, one of the biggest privacy issues is what information about people can be revealed through a court process, either as part of a criminal investigation or in some sort of civil dispute.
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Sexual hypocrisy and the Internet. - By William Saletan - Slate Magazine
Which are your sexual morals: the ones you preach in public, or the ones you practice in private?
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Wired Campus: Northeastern U. Researchers Tracked International Cellphone Users Without Their Knowledge - Chronicle.com
An unusual study of cell phone users conducted by researchers at Northeastern University tracked the location of cellphone users for six months without their knowledge—raising ethical concerns among some observers.
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Billboards That Look Back - NYTimes.com
They are equipping billboards with tiny cameras that gather details about passers-by — their gender, approximate age and how long they looked at the billboard. These details are transmitted to a central database.
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Repression 2.0 | Newsweek International Edition | Newsweek.com
The essence of the new repression is a form of surveillance in which the spies make their presence known in order to seem like they are everywhere. This strategy has emerged in recent years as authoritarian governments, led by China, have realized there a
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FOXNews.com - That Fly on the Wall Could Be an American Cyborg Spy - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News
If you thought "Robocop" was a little far-fetched, think again. Cyborgs — especially cyborg insects — are making the spy technology scene.
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