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bmilleare : Close Protection - If you're looking for some personal protection or surveillance services then you can't go wrong with these guys.
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nelson : Surveillance stats - Great analysis of wire taps, pen registers, etc. GPS logs from mobile phones are very popular.
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Linkorama : Jeff Jonas: Your Movements Speak for Themselves: - Space-Time Travel Data is Analytic Super-Food!
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Linkorama : On Locational Privacy, - and How to Avoid Losing it Forever | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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philgyford : Simon Jenkins: Here's proof. The innocent do have something to fear | Comment is free | The Guardian - "One of the few home secretaries who dominated his department rather than be cowed by it was Lord Whitelaw in the 1980s. He boasted how after any security lapse, the police would come to beg for new and draconian powers. He laughed and sent them pack
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Linkorama : Privacy in the Age of Persistence - Just as we look back at the beginning of the previous century and shake our heads at how people could ignore the pollution they caused, future generations will look back at us – living in the early decades of the information age – and judge our soluti
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22 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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24 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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37 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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43 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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45 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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45 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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49 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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49 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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50 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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50 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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50 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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50 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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50 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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51 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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51 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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51 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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51 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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51 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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52 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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