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People might be more identifiable than previously thought fromsupposedly anonymised information contained in large databases,according to a technology law expert. New research recommends thatprivacy practices and even privacy (Read More)
Submitted by logicalextremes
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As the federal government readies the third iteration of Einstein, privacy concerns over the intrusion detection system were voiced at a Senate hearing on Tuesday.Philip Reitinger, Department of Homeland Security deputy under (Read More)
MSNBC:
Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina is forcing extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to political prisoners slain a quarter-century ago.
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Submitted by WorkingWriter
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Today, the Open Book Alliance released an extensive compilation of third party analysis of the revised Google Books Settlement. The wide-ranging consensus from a diverse chorus of voices is that the revised Settlement is bar (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
MILWAUKEE — A lawsuit in Wisconsin is bringing a fresh challenge to the practice of paying for keywords on Google and other search engines to boost one company's link over a rival's.The practice has occasionally prompted a ri (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
MONACO — The governing body of track and field is working behind the scenes with Caster Semenya and the South African government to resolve issues about the 18-year-old runner's gender and career.The IAAF said Friday it canno (Read More)
wired-top-stories:
Photo: Joe PuglieseShedding Your Identity in the Digital AgeStories From the HuntEvan’s Daily Costume ChangeMedia, From TV to Mags to Blogs, Followed the HuntSocial Networking Sites at Center of Coast-to-Coast Coordinated Sea (Read More)
Valleywag:
A National Security Agency director just bragged to a Senate subcommittee about his agency's close "cooperation" with Microsoft to, err, "enhance" how Windows 7 guards a user's privacy. Doesn't that just make you feel all war (Read More)
Submitted by logicalextremes
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David Loukidelis, the Information and Privacy Commissioner of British Columbia, speaking today at The Surveillance Games workshop, has made it quite clear that his office does not want the Winter Games to leave a legacy of s (Read More)
Submitted by logicalextremes
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“We’ve moved from an era of privacy keepers to one of privacy peepers and data-mining reapers who want to turn our information into products…The product is our records, our privacy, our family’s history. We wouldn’t let the g (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Despite new federal laws to protect the privacy of medical files, many hospitals are ill-prepared to prevent security breaches that may result in patient records being stolen, lost or misused, a new survey shows. Three in fou (Read More)
Search Engine Land:
We have covered many of the search ad keyword lawsuits aimed between competitors or directly at the search engines in the past. Nowadays, it seems like a new suit around this topic is filed weekly. Typically these suits go (Read More)
Huffington Post:
UPDATE 11/20:Details are emerging about how model Daul Kim died, making the probability of a suicide more and more likely. Scroll down for more information and video of Kim.From AP:By JEAN-PIERRE VERGESPARIS - A 20-year-old t (Read More)
All Things Digital:
By Dionne Searcey, Reporter, The Wall Street JournalBig Brother is watching. That is the message corporations routinely send their employees about using email.But recent cases have shown that employees sometimes have more pri (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Fred von Lohmann, the chief copyright counsel at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has been doing an amazing job of analyzing the latest draft of the Google Book Search settlement, really making the legalese clear for the r (Read More)
Submitted by logicalextremes
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GovInfoSecurity reports on a U.S. Senate hearing about Einstein 3. It is a Bush-era pilot program, continued under Obama, that seeks to have private telecommunications companies route the Internet traffic of civilian governme (Read More)
Submitted by logicalextremes
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Lawmakers Thursday questioned whether businesses are amassing too much data about consumers without their knowledge or consent. We have... (Read More)
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Google is being sued by a Swiss watchdog agency for allegedly failing to take adequate measures to protect privacy. The... (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Our own Marshall Kirkpatrick's dreaded brain chip for controlling computers and mobile devices may be closer than even he suspected.Intel researchers in Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh! - told journalists today that brain implants ar (Read More)