
Why Government Phone Spying Is Really About Big Data
• popsci.comVerizon has given the U.S. National Security Agency information on all its telephone calls for months. But it's not the calls' content the government is looking at—it's their context.
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Verizon has given the U.S. National Security Agency information on all its telephone calls for months. But it's not the calls' content the government is looking at—it's their context.
Hey Palantir Technologies: Are you reading this right now?
The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze.
We now have disclosure that under a secret program code-named PRISM, the NSA and FBI are tapping directly into nine Internet giants, including Google, Facebook, Apple andYouTube, along with AT&T, Sprint and God knows who else.
For more than a month, Verizon Wireless has regularly provided the National Security Agency with logs of every phone call that Verizon Wireless customers make in the United States, according to a new report by British publication The Guardian.
An electronic WristBand will track people around Disney World; contactless wallets like Google’s allow similar data collection in the real world.
The data mining technology that is integral to the Google AdWords experience is a power tool in creating an individual profile for anyone who surfs the web.
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There is no such thing as privacy in America anymore, as evidenced by the fact that our own government violates the Constitution's Fourth Amendment on a daily basis - for our own good, of course.
A security guard for an Ohio shopping mall [Ohio Valley Mall in St. Clairsville] made a complete fool of herself as she tried to prevent people from taking photos of a truck that ended up in a ravine on mall property.
Congress wants to know how Google plans to protect consumers using and not using Google Glass.
Google's big keynote at its I/O developers conference this week wore me out.
A lawsuit filed in California accuses the Internal Revenue Service of illegal seizure of 60 million electronic health care records belonging to 10 million Americans.
The U.S. Department of Justice has subpoenaed the Associated Press's telephone records. How much data will officials have access to?
The Internal Revenue Service asked tea party groups to see donor rolls.It asked for printouts of Facebook posts. And it asked what books people were reading.
News agency calls behavior 'unprecedented intrusion' and demands all records be destroyed
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The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system.
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Cyber-espionage targeting U.S. government and business entities appears “to be attributable to the Chinese government and military,” the Pentagon charged Monday in the U.S. government’s most explicit public accusation to date against Beijing.
A former FBI counterterrorism agent claims on CNN that this is the case
In court where civilians have no representative, government's "national security" claims win again and again
What if Andy Warhol had it wrong, and instead of being famous for 15 minutes, we’re only anonymous for that long? In this short talk, Juan Enriquez looks at the surprisingly permanent effects of digital sharing on our personal privacy.
…Health Records and Files from Other Government Investigators
A secretive federal court last year approved all of the 1,856 requests to search or electronically surveil people within the United States “for foreign intelligence purposes,” the Justice Department reported this week.
What if Andy Warhol had it wrong, and instead of being famous for 15 minutes, we’re only anonymous for that long? In this short talk, Juan Enriquez looks at the surprisingly permanent effects of digital sharing on our personal privacy.
And calm your drone-panicked nerves!
A Senate committee today backed sweeping privacy protections requiring the government, for the first time, to get a probable-cause warrant to obtain e-mail and other content stored in the cloud.
The controversial Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) is likely to die in the Senate, according to US News.