Do RFID tags in clothes for preschoolers make them more or less safe? Check out the ACLU’s timeline of cracked RFID schemes.
Another item for your checklist of what to do after graduation: change your name.
Intriguing, if disturbing, news from scientists who’ve managed to track people’s recent travel based on how water isotopes end up in their hair. Bottled water was already suspicious, but now I’m going to assume anyone drinking Poland Spring could be the next Anna Chapman.
And you thought it was only migrant workers who have to carry papers in Arizona.
And you thought it was only migrant workers who have to carry papers in Arizona.
Just when you thought Facebook’s privacy policy couldn’t get worse.
Just when you thought Facebook’s privacy policy couldn’t get worse.
Facebook raising privacy concerns? Say it ain’t so!
Facebook raising privacy concerns? Say it ain’t so!
“Developers looking to prove a point about the information people are sharing on social networking sites have unveiled a new tool called Please Rob Me. It hunts out tweets from people who are also using location-based services telling the world that they’re out of town, and then directs the world to go rob their house….
If true, this has got to be the worst breach of privacy since Sony’s rootkit. Or Facebook.
“Developers looking to prove a point about the information people are sharing on social networking sites have unveiled a new tool called Please Rob Me. It hunts out tweets from people who are also using location-based services telling the world that they’re out of town, and then directs the world to go rob their house….
If true, this has got to be the worst breach of privacy since Sony’s rootkit. Or Facebook.
The FBI is putting the pressure on ISPs to keep logs of what user do online, and then to keep these records for at least two years. FBI Director Robert Mueller is calling for the retention of user origin and destination information. More here.
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