“Government Motors” To Track Drivers With OnStar, Sell Data to Police
The navigation company OnStar is attracting strong criticism after announcing this past week that it would continue to monitor drivers’ speeds and GPS...
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Facebook Announces Increased Privacy Protection
In the wake of criticism over privacy issues on Facebook, the social network has responded by indicating it will make significant changes to...
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Technology Keeping Internet Freedom Ahead of Censorship
Efforts by the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) to regulate the Internet may become irrelevant if the new technology being developed succeeds as...
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After Bilderberg Meeting, Facebook Official Says End Internet Anonymity
After attending the Bilderberg conference in Switzerland in June, Facebook’s marketing director, Randi Zuckerberg, announced that she had solved the cyberbullying issue: Prohibit...
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Government Funding Down; Scientists Experiment With “Crowd-Funding” Websites
In recent decades such a large portion of scientific research has been funded by governments, either directly or through government-funded universities, that most...
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Apple Pulls Anti-Israel App.
Apple has honored a request from Israel to pull a free iPhone application from its online store that the Israeli government said incited...
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Facebook to Launch Its Own iPad App
Facebook for iPhone is the most-downloaded iPhone app ever, but more than a year after Apple introduced the iPad, there is still a...
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I.B.M. Releases New Graphene Circuits
I.B.M. researchers said Thursday that they had designed high-speed circuits from graphene, an ultra-thin material that has a host of promising applications, from...
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Federal Govt Has Recruited One-Fourth of U.S. Hackers as Informants
The FBI and Secret Service have successfully infiltrated the underground world of computer hackers in the United States, and now 25 percent of...
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Service Versus Surveillance: Has Computer Technology Outpaced the Legal System?
First, the short version: Privacy? "Fuggedaboudit!" You can encrypt your messages, lock your laptop and password-protect your various accounts till your fingers fall...
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Privacy Concerns About Apple’s iPhones and iPads
Apple, Inc. finds itself amidst controversy once again, this time provoking the criticism of privacy watchdogs which are demanding an explanation as to...
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Is Your Gmail Safe From the G-Men?
Does the Fourth Amendment’s requirement that the government obtain a warrant to search one’s effects based on probable cause apply to e-mail communications?...
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Apple Bows to Pressure from Homosexual Activists, Pulls “Exodus” App
It didn’t take long for the folks at Apple to cave in. Following an aggressive petition campaign by homosexual activists, the computer giant...
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Federal Judge Rules Against Copyright Trolls
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has asked an Illinois judge to quash subpoenas issued in a "reverse class action" lawsuit accusing thousands of...
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Hacker Group Takes On Fed, IMF, “Global Banking Cartel”
A group of decentralized hacker activists — or “hacktivists” — known as Anonymous announced a new plan on March 14 to take on...
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Illinois Sales Tax Law Leaves Amazon Affiliates High and Dry
In its attempt to force online retailers to collect sales tax on items purchased in the Land of Lincoln, the state of Illinois...
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Feds Plotted Invasion of Social Media
The federal government wanted to hire a “security” contractor to create software that would allow legions of fake profiles on social-networking services to...
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Apple’s Refreshed MacBooks Pro
Apple announced the release of a new line of refreshed, enhanced MacBook Pro laptops last week. The new MacBook Pros represent a boon...
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Surveillance Blimp to Patrol Over Ogden, Utah
There are about 82,000 citizens of Ogden, Utah, and soon they will all live under the ever-watchful eye of the city’s new “Crime...
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Does the U.S. Have an Internet “Kill Switch”
One of the last acts of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak's tyranny before he abdicated his 30-year reign was to pull the plug on...
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