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Everytime you use a service such as Facebook, MySpace, Stickam or Hotmail all of those companies log your IP and record your personal details as well as data of those who have been comunicating with you, email address, time and date, etc.
How long for do social network sites and email companies keep logs and what [...]
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Just some FBI bullshit as usual, Robert Mueller, FBI director, attempts to convince big companies at the RSA conference in San Francisco, to work together, in what he calls a “partnership”.
I would have a higher regard for the people enforcing the law if they learned to respect people’s dignity and right to privacy in [...]
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I came accross this offer at Softpedia today and I thought about sharing it with all of you. Valid until 31st January 2010, you can download a free full licensed version of East-Tec Eraser 2009.
I just downloaded and registered it and so far so good, it works fine with Windows Vista 64 bit. East-Tec Eraser [...]
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The recent testimony of Richard Schaefer’s to the Senate Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security reveals that the NSA tinkered with Windows 7 before its release, it looks like one of the biggest voyeur agencies in the World is not missing a single opportunity to get its filthy pawns all over people’s operating system.
Richard [...]
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A general look at World privacy, from Google maps to European biometric passwords, this video makes you think if privacy is an achievable target or a thing of the past that will never come back.
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As we all know the World is full of terrorists, child porn, kidnappers, drug dealers and people who don’t pay their taxes, Manchester airport Terminal 2, in the UK nonetheless, has found a new magic weapon to fight all the evildoers, the digital strip search, aka Rapiscan equipment, for your own security, before boarding on [...]
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The Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) is powerful enough to cause permanent auditory damage and has been used for the first time on USA streets.
The device was originally intended to be used by American warships but it is now being used for crowd control by the US Government. These devices are also currently used at [...]
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It really beggars belief that while the UK police has the right to install CCTV cameras even in public toilets, disguissing it as a “vandalism protection”, they attempt to arrest people filming them in the middle of the street.
As the commentator of this superb video says at the end, do as we say not as [...]
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Lecture by Paul Dourish for the Stanford University Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (CS 547). Mobility is no longer sufficient; location-tracking is a key feature.
The introduction of location-based technologies has traditionally been accompanied by a series of concerns over privacy. These discussions, though, adopt a fairly reductive model of privacy, concerned primarily with the trade-offs involved in [...]
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An excellent University of North Carolina video where Fred Stutzman discusses Facebook, Myspace, and social networks in general.
The concepts of Social surveilance, weak vs. strong ties, and the effect of the “invisible audience”. The differences between social networks, and the effects of social networks on society in terms of privacy implications are discussed.
Note: The video [...]