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Face recognition fully implemented
The odds are you are not just a face in the crowd any longer. Even if your picture isn’t plastered all over social networking and photo-sharing sites, facial recognition technology in public places is making it harder if not impossible to remain anonymous. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57584887/big-brother-is-big-business/ CBS reports on the new ways this technology is being used […]
FBI wants access to internet phone and video messages
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has made it clear it wants to intercept Internet audio and video chats. And that, according to a new report being released Friday by a group of technologists, could pose “serious security risks” to ordinary Internet users, giving thieves and even foreign agents a way to listen in on Americans’ […]
Julian Assange: Why Wikileaks
“Let me first frame this. I looked at something that I had seen going on with the world. Which is that I thought there were too many unjust acts. And I wanted there to be more just acts, and fewer unjust acts. http://wikileaks.org/Transcript-Meeting-Assange-Schmidt?nocache And one can sort of say, well what are your philosophical axioms […]
US to strengthen “back door” surveillance rules
The administration, resolving years of internal debate, is on the verge of backing a Federal Bureau of Investigation plan for a sweeping overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people who communicate using the Internet rather than by traditional phone services. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/us/politics/obama-may-back-fbi-plan-to-wiretap-web-users.html?hp&_r=0 The FBI since 2010 has pushed for a legal […]
UK looks to futher snooping capabilities
UK proposals to be brought forward would address the fact the police – who can already tell when, where and who made a mobile phone call or sent a text message – cannot always trace the origin of an email, a message sent via instant messaging or a phone call made over the internet. In […]
Eye movement tracker raises privacy concerns
An advertising system which is able to track your eye movements while you shop has been created by researchers. It could allow for video screens which change adverts depending on what you look at in a shop. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22351995 With many new technologies designed to learn more about how we act, concerns over privacy are likely to […]
Facebook Home destroys privacy
Detailed data could be mined from home users could intrude on private life. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22025729 Many took issue with the claim that home put people, not apps, at the heart of the mobile experience, saying it would help Facebook sell ads. The "always on" nature of home bothered industry watchers who said it could be a […]
“Likes” on Facebook categorize users
Sexuality, political leanings and even intelligence can be gleaned from the things you choose to “like” on Facebook, a study suggests. The findings should “ring alarm bells” for users, privacy campaigners said. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21699305 The Facebook likes were fed into algorithms and matched with the information from the personality tests.The algorithms proved 88% accurate for determining […]
France looks to tax data mining
Google and Facebook know that you “likes” wine, are shopping for a Volkswagen and often e-mail Jane Doe. The new idea would require the companies to pay a tax for gathering that information. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/25/technology/french-tax-proposal-zeroes-in-on-web-giants-data-harvest.html?ref=world While business plans built on mining consumers’ personal information from the Internet are proliferating, so are concerns about the use of […]
