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D.C. electronic voting system attacked by Wolverines!

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John Moe
Oct 5, 2010
Imagine you're in charge of a new electronic voting system in Washington, D.C. You're confident that it's secure so you challenge hackers of the...
Posted In: gadgets, government, privacy
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Yikes! Android apps covertly sending user data to advertisers

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John Moe
Sep 30, 2010
According to a new study by Duke University, Penn State University, and Intel Labs, several popular free Android apps have been sharing personal...
Posted In: android, mobile, privacy
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Google has been found guilty of libel in France.

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John Moe
Sep 27, 2010
A convicted sex offender who is appealing his conviction objected to the word "rape" coming up in a search of his name. The French court said he's...
Posted In: Google, government, Law, privacy, search
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Status Update: The Facebook Phone - It's Complicated.

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Steve Henn
Sep 23, 2010
Is a Facebook Phone in the works? The company denied it over the weekend, but turns out this all might depend on what the definition of is is....
Posted In: business, privacy
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Facebook quietly launches de facto follow feature

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John Moe
Sep 21, 2010
So I noticed this last night when I was Facebook friended by one of my kids' friends. He's a nice kid but I didn't want to have that kind of...
Posted In: Facebook, privacy, Web Culture
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Google engineer fired for snooping

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John Moe
Sep 15, 2010
Google has fired engineer David Barksdale for accessing private information from users' Google Voice, Gmail, and instant messaging accounts. The...
Posted In: Google, privacy
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Burglars take advantage of Facebook status information

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John Moe
Sep 13, 2010
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Posted In: Facebook, Law, privacy, social media, Web Culture
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Microsoft used as tool of repression by Russian government

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John Moe
Sep 13, 2010
A New York Times article got plenty of buzz in tech circles over the weekend. It's about how the Russian government is using the construct of the...
Posted In: Law, privacy, world
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Want users to tell all??? Have an ugly site.

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Julia Barton
Sep 3, 2010
The scuzzier-looking the site, the more users may reveal about themselves. That's the finding of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. They...
Posted In: marketing, privacy, research, web design
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Tag your tots: RFID chips for preschoolers

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author198
Sep 1, 2010
By Steve Henn...
Posted In: children, Education, privacy, RFID

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