4 month ago
nelson : ph34t the g00gl3 - Italians having none of being filmed on the street
Andy Baio : Italians flee Google Street View cameras on streets of Rome - they assumed the far-right government was trying to film them
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6 month ago
adamrg : Tracking the nukes - and evidently radioactive cats. Not that I haul around radioactive materials... but still creepy invasive.
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18 month ago
jimray : Justice Department takes aim at image-sharing sites - Lawyers for the Bush administration want mandatory data retention to OMG STOP TEH EViL TERRAHISTS!!1! Fuck, is it 2008 yet?
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24 month ago
plasticbag : Fiona Romeo has put out a call for ideas around future technologies of surveillance and spying - I've got the Barbelites thinking about this as well. Could be really cool to be involved in this project.
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27 month ago
kayodeok : Schneier on Security: Greek Wiretapping Scandal - In early March of that year, Ericsson's technicians told Vodafone's technology director in Greece of their unusual discovery about the cause of the problems: software that appeared to be capable of illegally monitoring calls.
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27 month ago
kayodeok : The Ultimate Net Monitoring Tool - We can reconstruct all of their e-mails along with attachments, see what web pages they clicked on, we can reconstruct their (voice over internet protocol) calls.
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30 month ago
kayodeok : Why Data Mining Won't Stop Terror - We're not trading privacy for security; we're giving up privacy and getting no security in return
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31 month ago
kayodeok : Microsoft: Vista won't get a backdoor - Windows Vista won't have a backdoor that could be used by police forces to get into encrypted files, Microsoft has stressed
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31 month ago
kayodeok : China's Facial Recognition System - China is about to launch a new facial recognition system “which will be used in public places, such as airports, post offices, customs entrances and even residential communitiesâ€, according to today’s China Daily (no URL available yet.)
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31 month ago
kayodeok : Britain wants access to encrypted Vista hard drives - The issue is BitLocker Drive Encryption, slated for inclusion in Vista. The system can encrypt a user's entire hard drive, making it almost impossible to access data if the drive is removed from the computer or otherwise tampered with
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31 month ago
kayodeok : People who watch TV on mobile phones or computers could face a £1,000 fine unless they have a £126.50 TV licence - TV Licensing already gathers data from computer retailers and is "in touch with" mobile phone companies and retailers to ensure viewers have a licence as required. "We have a database of 28 million addresses that shows us who does and does not have a curr
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32 month ago
kayodeok : Schneier on Security: Big Brother Prison - This Dutch prison is the future of surveillance - Remember, new surveillance technologies are first used on populations with limited rights: inmates, children, the mentally ill, military personnel
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32 month ago
kayodeok : Protecting Your Search Privacy: A Flowchart To Tracks You Leave Behind - In this piece, I'll take you step-by-step about how your search privacy data gets exposed from all the way from your desktop to the sites you visit
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32 month ago
kayodeok : ALBERTO GONZALES V. GOOGLE, INC. (Uncle Sam wants your Google Searches - Copy of the subpoena) - "This motion seeks compel the Respondent Google Inc. ("Google"), to comply with the subpoena that the Attorney General has issued to it, and to produce and permit for inspection and copying the materials specified in that subpoena"
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32 month ago
kayodeok : Don't Look Now, But It's Happening - The Bush administration on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order Google Inc. to turn over a broad range of material from its closely guarded databases
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32 month ago
Wayne Burkett : The Raw Story | In Martin Luther King Day address, Gore compares wiretapping of Americans to surveillance of King - "It is simply an insult to those who came before us and sacrificed so much on our behalf to imply that we have more to be fearful of than they. Yet they faithfully protected our freedoms and now it is up to us to do the same." #
Linkorama : Who'se the Patriot? - In Martin Luther King Day address, Gore compares wiretapping of Americans to surveillance of King
deusx : The Raw Story | In Martin Luther King Day address, Gore compares wiretapping of Americans to surveillance of King - "It is particularly important that the freedom of the Internet be protected against either the encroachment of government or efforts at control by large media conglomerates. The future of our democracy depends on it."
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32 month ago
kayodeok : Is the NSA snooping your email? Wanna find out? - Use your imagination to think about what would interest the NSA these days. You know... phrases like "Bin Laden wants to kill the imperialist pig-dog George W. Bush with a dirty bomb of VX gas"
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32 month ago
kayodeok : Data Mining 101: Finding Subversives with Amazon Wishlists - Few things tell you as much about a person as the books he chooses to read. Isn't that why the Patriot Act specifically requires libraries to release information on who's reading what? For this reason, I chose to focus on the information contained in the
deusx : Data Mining 101: Finding Subversives with Amazon Wishlists | Applefritter - "Today, it is increasingly easy to monitor ideas. And then track them back to people."
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33 month ago
kayodeok : Schneier on Security: Vehicle Tracking in the UK - Britain is to become the first country in the world where the movements of all vehicles on the roads are recorded. A new national surveillance system will hold the records for at least two years
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33 month ago
kayodeok : Schneier on Security: The Security Threat of Unchecked Presidential Power - Laws are what give us security against the actions of the majority and the powerful. If we discard our constitutional protections against tyranny in an attempt to protect us from terrorism, we're all less safe as a result
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33 month ago
kayodeok : Schneier on Security: NSA and Bush's Illegal Eavesdropping - Terrorism is a serious risk to our nation, but an even greater threat is the centralization of American political power in the hands of any single branch of the government
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35 month ago
kayodeok : How the MPAA killed the movie theater experience: a first-hand report [Politech] - I wonder what kind of dystopian cyberpunk future we live in when you are physically searched before entering a movie theatre
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35 month ago
jimray : Colleges Protest Call to Upgrade Online Systems - The government wants you to pay to make it easier for them to snoop on you
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35 month ago
Nelson Minar : Printer fingerprints 2 - Images showing the dots.
kayodeok : Secret Forensic Codes in Color Laser Printers - DocuColor Tracking Dot Decoding Guide: This guide is part of the Machine Identification Code Technology project. It explains how to read the date, time, and printer serial number from forensic tracking codes in a Xerox DocuColor color laser printout
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38 month ago
kayodeok : The State Of Surveillance - Artificial noses that sniff explosives, cameras that I.D. you by your ears, chips that analyze the halo of heat you emit. More scrutiny lies ahead
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