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Twitter Opens Entire Database to MIT – How Will It Be Used?
Predictive technology is exploding, in stealth, across the virtual landscape. The arrival of Big Data initiatives by government, as well as a massive industry of data brokers is not only putting privacy at risk,
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This Google Glass App That Measures Human Emotions Is So, So Creepy
It's not like we need any more reminders about how creepy Google Glass can be, but developers never stop surprising us. An new app from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute that uses facial tracking, proprietary tools
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Exploit can turn Google Glass into secret surveillance device, even Michael Chertoff isn’t a fan
A hacker has proven that Google Glass can be turned into a secret surveillance device by anyone with physical access to the device, according to a report. Oddly enough, even former Secretary of the
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Judge Tells FBI They Can’t Use Webcams To Spy on People
A federal judge in Texas has told the FBI that they cannot "install sophisticated surveillance software" on a suspect's computer in order to spy on them. The request by the FBI came in a
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IRS: We can read emails without warrant
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has claimed that agents do not need warrants to read people's emails, text messages and other private electronic communications, according to internal agency documents. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU),
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Google’s sinister glasses will turn the whole world into search giant’s spies
They look like something you’d see at a Star Trek convention, perhaps worn with a pair of fake pointy ears. And that’s entirely fitting, given that these high-tech specs are about to propel us into
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Google Glass: is it a threat to our privacy?
The tech giant's 'wearable computing' project is now being tested by volunteers, meaning you might already have been surreptitiously filmed and uploaded on to Google's servers. How worried should you be
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Google Says the FBI Is Secretly Spying on Some of Its Customers
The terrorists apparently would win if Google told you the exact number of times the Federal Bureau of Investigation invoked a secret process to extract data about the media giant’s customers. That’s why it is
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13,753 Gov’t Requests for Google E-Mail Data in 2012, Most Without a Warrant
American government agencies – state, local, and federal -- made a record 13,753 requests to read emails or gather other information sent through Google’s Gmail and other services in 2012, more than half without
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Google Moves to Destroy Online Anonymity … Unintentionally Helping Authoritarian Governments
Some of the world’s leading social critics and political critics have used pen names. As Tyler Durden of Zero Hedge points out (edited slightly for readability): Though often maligned (typically by those
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The Government Is Still Trying to Spy on a Lot of Your Twitter and Google Data
On the occasion of Data Privacy Day, Twitter has released its second biannual Transparency Report and — what do you know? — Twitter is still giving away more user information requested by the U.S.
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These Wild New DVRs Will Spy On Your Living Room With Cameras And Microphones
Google TV, Microsoft, Comcast, and now Verizon have all submitted patent applications to create televisions and DVRs that will watch you as you watch TV. Earlier this month, news came out that Verizon applied
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