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Feds forced to release list of words used to monitor online speech

Pork. Cloud. Mexico. Exercise. Screening. Response. I have just given the U.S. Department of Homeland Security seven good reasons to investigate...
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Researchers create wi-fi blocking wallpaper that allows other signals through

French researchers at Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, in cooperation with the Centre Technique du Papier, have developed wallpaper that can...
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Twitter defends user's Fourth Amendment rights in Occupy Wall Street case

The ACLU is giving Twitter some props, as the popular micro-blogging service has "stood up for one of its users," according to the ACLU&...
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Mac OS X 10.7.3 bug stores passwords in the clear

Despite what Mac fans like to think, Mac OS X is not invulnerable to malware, and neither is it bugless, either. A debug flag was left on in the...
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Woman's Facebook image photo-jacked, shows up on porn site

If you haven't heard of photo-jacking, listen up. Photo-jacking is when photos are scraped from Facebook and other Internet services, then...
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Everyone is "Naked" Online - Protecting Your "Naked" Identity Online

I recently co-authored a new book called, "Protecting your Internet Identity: Are You Naked Online?" with one of the greatest legal minds...
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Congress to investigate Google Wi-Fi snooping

Representative Edward Markey (Massachusetts Democrat) is not satisfied with the FCC investigation on Google's alleged Wi-Fi snooping. On...
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Md. first state to outlaw employers requesting employee Facebook passwords

Maryland has become the first U.S. state to pass a law banning employers from asking their employees and applicants for passwords to their personal...
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Girls around me as a mirror of social networking

  • Girls Around Me
  • April 5, 2012
Last week an application for I-Phones created by Russian company i-Free, Girls Around Me, went under fire over privacy concerns. Wall Street...
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List of employers demanding Facebook passwords continues to grow

The "publicly known" list of employers demanding access to employees' Facebook passwords is short, but growing. Lewis Cass...
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