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Police, health officials, and social media sites are helping add innocent people's biometric information, including DNA, voice recordings, and more, to massive government databases exempted from public scrutiny.
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In January, academic-turned-regulator Lorrie Cranor gave a presentation and provided the closing remarks at PrivacyCon, a Federal Trade Commission event intended to "inform policymaking with research," as she put it.
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With the internet of things, previously innocuous devices have been rigged up to collect all sorts of data about their users--including sex toys.
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Where there is a will, there is a way. Regardless of security measures that might be in place, there appears to be no electronic device in the world that cannot be hacked, whether smartphone, tablet, computer, mainframe or even government agencies.
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Where there is a will, there is a way. Regardless of security measures that might be in place, there appears to be no electronic device in the world that cannot be hacked, whether smartphone, tablet, computer, mainframe or even government agencies.
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Where there is a will, there is a way. Regardless of security measures that might be in place, there appears to be no electronic device in the world that cannot be hacked, whether smartphone, tablet, computer, mainframe or even government agencies.
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This week in Chicago, the Array of Things team begins the first phase of the groundbreaking urban sensing project, installing the first of an eventual 500 nodes on city streets. By measuring data on air quality, climate, traffic and other urban featu
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You will have to read this complete story to see the perverseness of what Facebook has done to undermine essential privacy firewalls. We have stated many time that Technocrats do stuff simply because they can, not because it is right or necessary.
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I've been creeped out by Facebook for a long time now. The following story takes it to another level.
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FBI Director James Comey warned again Tuesday about the bureau's inability to access digital devices because of encryption and said investigators were collecting information about the challenge in preparation for an "adult conversation" next ye
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Consumer privacy watchdogs filed a federal complaint Monday against Facebook over the tech titan's decision to begin harvesting phone numbers from its popular WhatsApp messaging service.
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Privacy is perhaps the greatest luxury anyone can buy, hence the trend for properties hidden from prying eyes and online searches
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A proposal has been issued by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to collect social media handles from visitors to the United States from visa waiver countries. The Electronic Frontier Foundation opposes the proposal and has commented on it individual
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We are losing our privacy forever. Most people just don't care. We can see this with the free upgrade to Windows 10. It went on for a year. It was difficult not to accept the upgrade. You had to take steps to avoid it or the promotion. I sent out
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Last month, I spoke at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland because I believe our country is on the wrong track, and we need to solve real problems instead of fighting fake culture wars. I'm glad that an arena full of Republicans stood u
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Last month, I spoke at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland because I believe our country is on the wrong track, and we need to solve real problems instead of fighting fake culture wars.
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Joshua Kopstein for the Motherboard reports With widespread adoption among law enforcement, advertisers, and even churches, face recognition has undoubtedly become one of the biggest threats to privacy out there.
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Privacy doesn't count at the border, even if the border is in an airport
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The move comes in the appeal case of a drug trafficker who was convicted, in part, because of emails Yahoo provided to law enforcement that conspirators believed had been deleted.
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Frustrated by increased airport security checks, actor Maurice Micklewhite has decided to replace his birth name with his showbiz moniker for good
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We have heard a lot about privacy concerns surrounding Windows 10 and accusations on Microsoft of collecting too much data about users without their consent. Now, the French data protection authority has ordered Microsoft to stop it.
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On Thursday at the MIT Media Lab, Snowden and well-known hardware hacker Andrew "Bunnie" Huang plan to present designs for a case-like device that wires into your iPhone's guts to monitor the electrical signals sent to its internal antennas.
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A federal appeals court Thursday said prosecutors cannot force U.S. companies like Microsoft to turn over customer emails and other data stored on servers overseas -- a ruling the government suggested could hamper national security investigations.
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In a shocking article published Tuesday by the Verge, it was revealed the FBI has been quietly collecting hundreds of thousands of iris scans as part an experimental program referred to as the "FBI Iris Pilot."
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FBI Director James Comey got Hillary off the hook but wants to put you on it. He is pushing hard for warrantless access to all of your Internet activity.
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"It Is Shocking That US Citizens Are Not In An Uproar Over How Exposed They Are As a Nation". Hillary Clinton's emails and server misconduct are the least of our worries. The fact that her server was receiving files that passed through or origi
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The questions of our time have become – who owns you? Your data? What about your DNA?
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A 10-year study shows the U.S. wiretaps increasingly often and effectively
