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    • ACLU says Larry Craig was wronged

      Posted by Jeff from Pageoneq

      The ACLU filed a brief Tuesday supporting Craig. It cited a Minnesota Supreme Court ruling 38 years ago that found that people who have sex in closed stalls in public restrooms "have a reasonable expectation of privacy."

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    • Data Leak in Britain Affects 25 Million

      Posted by Jon from New York Times

      The British government struggled Wednesday to explain its loss of computer disks containing detailed personal information on 25 million Britons, including an unknown number of bank account identifiers, in what analysts described as potentially the most significant privacy breach of the digital era.

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    • Facebook Promises to Open Data ... Ambigously

      Posted by Jeff from PC World

      Facebook Inc. wants to make the data its members enter into the social network's profiles portable, so that they can move that data to other online services if they want, the company's CEO said Wednesday. That Facebook doesn't let them do this today is "a flaw in the system" and something the company wants to fix, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.

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    • Facebook Opens Your Profile to Search Engines - Partly

      Posted by Jeff

      Facebook calls these pages "public search listings" -- basically it means that someone who isn't a member of Facebook can now see a small bit of Facebook members' pages. And not only can people do this: So too can Google, Yahoo, and other search engines. Soon, what you do on Facebook will end up on Google.

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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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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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    Jeff

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    Jeff is the founder of NewsCloud. He is also a freelance writer and blogs at Idealog.

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    a geek, a crazy cyclist, and somebody who just wants to see the world become a happier place.

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    former US Marine, retired police. . .nothing of interest. . .

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