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Markey concerned about privacy on Amazon's Kindle Silk browser
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Oct 17, 2011
Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) kind of reminds me of a book of Mad Libs sometimes. He's always firing off STRONGLY WORDED LETTERS to tech companies about...
Big Brother from big data?
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Oct 11, 2011
In other privacy news, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity announced it will begin a three-year study, trying to harness "big data...
Obama's data management could keep him in the White House
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Oct 11, 2011
CNN ran a story by Micah Sifry, co-founder of the Personal Democracy Forum, about the Obama campaign's data crunching strategy. Sifry says Obama's...
The government wants access to your email account
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Oct 10, 2011
If you're Jacob Appelbaum, a Wikileaks volunteer. The Wall Street Journal is reporting on the government's interpretation of the law that allows...
Who WON'T be looking at your social network?
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Oct 7, 2011
Banks and lenders are in on the act. Well, not quite yet, but as soon as enough data can be collected, it will most certainly be crunched and...
HTC phones have big security flaw
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Oct 4, 2011
Make that a gigantic, gaping security flaw. That's according to a new report from the website Android Police which says the vulnerability exposes...
Facebook adding warnings to links that may be malicious
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Oct 3, 2011
For years, Facebook has been loaded with bum links that spread virally across the social media platform and take users to malware-infested site....
Massive data breach in military medical records
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Sep 29, 2011
It happened at a company called Tricare, which provides medical services for active and retired military personnel. The company admitted that...
OnStar Caves
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Sep 28, 2011
Remember a couple days ago, when we told you about OnStar's new policy to track and collect data from drivers, even if they had cancelled their...
Facebook is still watching you even when you're logged out
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Sep 26, 2011
Along with Facebook's big redesign has come some new scrutiny on exactly how the company is following you around the internet. According to some...
