Tag Archives: privacy

Younger Generation Embracing A New View Of Privacy

For four years, nearly 200 high school students in Dallas voluntarily allowed every text, email, and IM to be monitored. That [...]

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Police Recording More and More: Cars, Uniforms, and Equipment With Cameras

“Don’t Tase Me Bro,” the YouTube video of University of Florida student Andrew Meyer getting tased by campus police spread [...]

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Police Are Making A Scanner To Detect Concealed Weapons 80 Feet Away (video)

The New York Police Department is working with the Department of Defense to develop a scanning device that would allow [...]

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Internet Spy Room Found In Tripoli – Packed With Western Technology

From protests precipitated by Facebook posts to internet censoring by authoritarian regimes technology has played a prominent role in the [...]

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Scotland Yard Using Facial Recognition To Find Rioters – But Tech Isn’t Up To The Task

There are more than a million CCTV cameras in London, and it’s time for them to start paying off. The [...]

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Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Wife! The Eyeborgs Are Out to Get You

Walking robotic cameras have armed themselves, are seeking your destruction, and the guy from the Highlander TV series is the [...]

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IATA Unveils The Airport Checkpoint Of The Future

Imagine showing up to the security line and not having to take your shoes off. Nor your belt or your [...]

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Has China Wiretapped 20,000 Hong Kong Cars?

Careful what you say when driving between Hong Kong and China, the government may be listening. The Apple Daily, a [...]

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“Minority Report” Scanners Are Coming: Company Snags $15 Million For Long-Range Facial Recognition Tech

Ever heard of a company called Digital Signal Corporation? Neither had I. Well, remember the movie “Minority Report,” how cameras [...]

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The Government is Spying On You Through Facebook Right…Now

In our ongoing effort to keep you safe we’ve decided to read your email without your consent. Love, Your Democratically [...]

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Brazilian “RoboCop” Security Goggles Over-Hyped, We’ve Got the Real Facts

For most, the eyes and face are windows to the soul, but for the bad guys at the 2014 World [...]

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New Disposable, Medical Camera Is the Size of a Grain of Salt

Thanks to a German research institute, in the very near future, we may not even see the cameras looking back [...]

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Ad Network Monitors 76% of US – Knows What You Buy, What You Want

In tens of thousands of stores in the US and EU, a marketing company is monitoring how you shop. 150 [...]

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The Lifelogging Professor – An Update on the Surgically Implanted Camera

I don’t know artist Wafaa Bilal, but I know exactly where he was about an hour ago.  How?  The constant [...]

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Anything You Search For Can and Will Be Used Against You in a Court of Law

What’s the worst possible way your online activity could come back to haunt you? Losing your job? Or getting expelled from school? [...]

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Russia To Adopt Universal ID Card in 2012

For all those conspiracy theorists out there, 2012 just got a little more ominous. As required by legislation passed this [...]

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Centamental: Private Conversations Aren’t As Private As You Think

Advertisers already pay big bucks for information about your search habits, your emails, and your tweets. In the near future [...]

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India Launches Universal ID System with Biometrics

India has launched an ambitious program to fit each of its 1.2 billion residents with an Unique identification number (UID). [...]

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The Vicon Life Recorder – Lifelogging Takes Another Step Forward

Lifelogging – recording every single minute of your life (or as much of it as possible) – continues its unstoppable [...]

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Rovio Does for Security Cameras What Roomba Did for Vacuums

The next must-have robot has arrived. Rovio from WowWee is a mobile webcam that uses WiFi to work like a [...]

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London’s Surveillance Fails – Only 1 Crime Solved per 1000 Cameras

Some people don’t mind being watched. Apparently London criminals are among those. According to several major UK news outlets, an [...]

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