Recent Privacy News
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Uncovering AT&T's Spying Program www.kmov.com — For years the National Securities Agency, has been spying on each & every keystroke. The national headquarters of AT&T is in Missouri, where ex-employees describe a secret room. The program is called "Splitter Cut-In & Test Procedure." Tomorrow the senate will vote to allow this to continue this activity legally & it may be too late. More… 0 Comments Submitted By: destiney Categories: Privacy, Technology |
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George Bush's Latest Powers, Courtesy of the Democrats www.salon.com — Congress is going to decree that the President has the power to order private citizens to break the law, as well as to spy on our telephone calls and emails with no warrants. Well done, Democrats! More… 0 Comments Submitted By: destiney Categories: Government, Politics, Privacy |
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Why Global Hackers Are Nearly Impossible to Catch www.livescience.com — They're in our computers, reading our files. The Chinese government, that is, according to two U.S. Congressmen who recently accused Beijing of sending hackers to ferret out secret documents stored on Congressional computers. The Chinese deny any involvement, but if they were lying, would we be able to prove it? More… 0 Comments Submitted By: destiney Categories: Government, Privacy, Technology |
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Swedes To Be Wiretapped, Despite Protests torrentfreak.com — Despite public protests both online and on the streets of Stockholm, the Swedish parliament has voted in favor of a new “wiretapping” law which invades the privacy of its citizens by allowing the government to monitor web traffic and phone calls, without the need for court orders or similar authorization. More… 0 Comments Submitted By: destiney Categories: Government, Privacy |
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www.reuters.com — Spy bill could shield phone companies from suits - U.S. telephone companies that cooperated with President George W. Bush's warrantless domestic spying program could be shielded from lawsuits under an electronic spy bill finalized on Thursday by congressional and White House. More… 0 Comments Submitted By: destiney Categories: Business, Government, Humanity, Privacy, Technology |
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Sweden Approves Bill To Tap All Forms Of Communication techdirt.com — Recently, we had mentioned a bill under consideration in Sweden that would open up all forms of communication to government monitoring, and Slashdot passes on the news that the bill has been narrowly approved. Apparently a few "safeguards" were added, though those were not detailed in the article. There's still plenty of controversy about this, but it seems like yet another law put in place by those who do not understand the law of unintended consequences. This law will be abused -- and the privacy of many people will be at risk. As for those who are actually planning terrorist attacks or whatever, they'll quickly migrate to more secure forms of communication (if they hadn't already). More… 0 Comments Submitted By: destiney Categories: Government, Privacy, Technology |
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U.S. demanded records of Amazon Book buyers www.NaturalNews.com — Heavy handed approach led to abuse of power. More… 0 Comments Submitted By: destiney Categories: Government, Privacy |
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McCain Believes Wiretapping is Constitutional www.iht.com — WASHINGTON: A top adviser to Senator John McCain says McCain believes that President George W. Bush's program of wiretapping without warrants was lawful, a position that appears to bring him into closer alignment with the sweeping theories of executive authority pushed by the Bush administration legal team. More… 0 Comments Submitted By: destiney Categories: Government, Politics, Privacy |
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UK ISP bows to record industry, to send P2P warning letters arstechnica.com — British ISP Virgin Media has come to an agreement with the BPI, which represents the record industry, to warm filesharers on its network about the dangers of copyright infringement. More… 0 Comments Submitted By: destiney Categories: Business, Privacy, Technology |
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Airports Install See-Through Body Scanners www.usatoday.com — Body-scanning machines that show images of people underneath their clothing are being installed in 10 of the nation's busiest airports in one of the biggest public uses of security devices that reveal intimate body parts. More… 0 Comments Submitted By: destiney Categories: Business, Humanity, Privacy, Technology |