Jul
25
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The same hacker that worked for the MPAA to bring down TorrentSpy (and who switched to the P2P side after a while) is revealing that he was also hired to collect information on The Pirate Bay as well.
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Note that security issues in BC revolving around the games contribute to the desire to move to RFID licenses. The ones in Quebec can be read from 10m away!
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Using GPS, states and insurance companies are beginning to charge insurance based on how much you drive - this can be helpful for city-dwellers, but what of those in rural areas? How will this data be used?
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The privacy commissioner can’t require breeched in solicitor-client privilege to fulfill her roles. Indeed, under this ruling, the PC is required to get a court order before any such disclosure can take place.
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The new cameras that are being installed are unlikely to have much effect, says Haggerty, and could create a way for privacy violations if the city is displeased with their performance when unmonitored.
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Identifying the ‘facebook factor’, the article suggests that people are becoming desensitized to the impropriety of looking at other people’s personal data. It offers suggestions to deal with snooping - surveillance and electronic monitoring software.
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This article provides some helpful numbers on how many people have had their identity ’stolen’ and the areas where that data has been lost from.
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Perceiving DPI as a real concern for consumer and citizens, Congressman Markey is pushing for real opt-in legislation. The ‘issue’ that arose is that the committee wasn’t talking about the 500lbs gorillas, Yahoo! or Google!
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Homeland security is setting up checkpoints up to 150 miles into the US, militarizing American towns. Their attitudes and actions demonstrate a lack of concern for either their fiscal costs or the potential to cost immigrants their lives and human dignity
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Bob Barr, the libertarian party’s candidate, threatens to siphon support from McCain because of his stance towards ‘traditional’ conservative/repulican values. A stance privacy advocate (now) he works with the ACLU as a privacy consultant.
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Using new L-3 security scanners, TSA will be able to see a person’s naked body and detect any hidden liquids or explosives. This is a strip search, and should have the same legal requirements to implment in an airport as on the street.
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New law statutes in Vermont allow libraries to clearly identify what records they need to retain, and who can request them. This will give libraries’ privacy policies some legally-grafted teeth.
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It’s possible to capture screen images by simply monitoring electromagnetic signatures from up to 100m away. NTT, a Japanese company, is offering a device to protect screens from potential data theft occuring from reading EM radiation.
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A detailed listing of all the Register’s reporting on Phorm in the UK
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Congressman Markey continues to push for opt-in requirement for behavioural advertising such as NebuAd. A point of concern is that even after opting out of the present system, individuals are still tracked, just not served ads.
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What is most troubling is that the authors sees law as aimed towards catching the RIGHT bad guys, and not ensuring the individual citizens enjoy the maximum amount of autonomy and liberty and be able to live with one another.
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What happens when you’re served to subpoena and can’t announce to those who might be effected because of a gag clause in the subpeona itself? This is something that bloggers need to be mindful, and somewhat fearful, of.
