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- Facebook's Beacon is Super Creepy
  Posted by Jeff from Idealog.US
  A couple of hours earlier, I had purchased tickets to see Dark Knight at the Fandango Web site - Fandango.com. Fandango - not associated with Facebook. Yet, Fandango shared the details of my credit card transaction with Facebook. They did this despite the fact that I gave Fandango my personal email address and I'm registered on Facebook with my work address. So, sure - Facebook was giving me a choice as to whether to publish my purchase to my 297 Facebook friends. But despite my awareness of Beacon - and my 13 year history developing Web applications, I was creeped out in a visceral way. But then, even when I thought I told Facebook not to publish the information, it published to my profile anyway.
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- Internet Archive's NSL Challenge
  Posted by theangryindian from ACLU
  FBI Withdraws Unconstitutional NSL Served on Internet Archive On November 26, 2007, the FBI served a National Security Letter NSL on the Internet Archive, a digital library. The letter sought personal information about one of the Archive s users, including the individual s NAME, address, and any electronic communication transactional records pertaining to the user. The NSL also included a gag order, prohibiting the Archive and its counsel from revealing the existence of the letter.
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- Microsoft device helps police pluck evidence from cyberscene of crime
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  I have mixed feelings about this. The Times plays up the positive crime-fighting side of this - but it will only be a matter of time before it falls into the wrong hands and is exploited by criminals or the government. No one should think that Apple won't build something like this for Mac's either.
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- Feds catch radioactive cat on Interstate 5
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Wow that the government now has the ability to detect radiation in a cat inside a car going by at 70 miles per hour. And wow at this world we live in, where we feel compelled to sniff, at random, inside the traffic coming out of Bellingham. What else is the government watching? Is it all too much?
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- Privacy vs. technology, freedom vs. convenience: it’s only going to get worse
  Posted by udamnskippy from Scholarsandrogues
  Perhaps innovation and individual liberties aren’t inherently opposed, but a glance around the landscape suggests the difficulty in investing more deeply in the bounty of tech-enabled consumerism without sacrificing our personal privacy. Thousands of Facebook users and millions of online shoppers say they’re worried already. If so, the next decade promises to be absolutely terrifying.
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- Pillaged MySpace Photos Show Up in Massive BitTorrent Download
  Posted by Jeff from Wired
  The creator of the file says he compiled the photos earlier this month using the MySpace security hole that Wired News reported on last week. That hole, still unacknowledged by the News Corporation-owned site, allowed voyeurs to peek inside the photo galleries of some MySpace users who had set their profiles to "private," despite MySpace's assurances that such images could only be seen by people on a user's friends' list.
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- All your Internets are belong to AT&T and the NSA
  Posted by VincebusEruptum from Scholarsandrogues
  Two seemingly coincidental bits of news crossed my desk yesterday morning. First, the Wall Street Journal contains excerpts of an interview with Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell in which he outlines a vast new initiative to police Internet traffic “for abuse.”
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Jeff comments on:
Feds catch radioactive cat on Interstate 5

Personally, I’m glad to hear the U.S. is deploying (and has the capability) these devices. I’m skeptical of the casual anecdote that this agent shared at a community meeting.
I would like the government to be more forthcoming about their domestic spying – at the very least with Congress – so we can have the appropriate Constitutional checks and balances.

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2:19 pm 3/24/08
theangryindian comments on:
Politics | FBI aims to amass huge database of people\\\\\\\'s physical characteristics | Seattle Tim

I hope you are joking.

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4:15 pm 12/25/07
rwtaylor comments on:
Politics | FBI aims to amass huge database of people\\\\\\\'s physical characteristics | Seattle Tim

great !!!

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2:29 pm 12/24/07
Jon comments on:
Amazon database would put shoppers' intimate details on the line
This kind of intrusive corporate snooping is above and beyond the pale. I really wish we had a law that would allow me to get companies to *remove* data about me from their files.
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10:00 am 8/12/06
Billbar comments on:
OS X 10.4.7 Phones Home To Cupertino
Seems innocuous like what iTunes did, but does feel Microsoftian. Probably can be circumvented easily, like in iTunes. But Apple is a large multinational corporation and thus is evil by definition, so a little paranoia is healthy.
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5:37 am 7/06/06

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