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"California Attorney Kamala Harris says her office will start cracking down on companies in the Golden State that don't encrypt customer data and fall victim to data breaches; she's also calling on the state to pass a law requiring companies to use encryption. That's just one of the recommendations in the state's newly released data breach report, which says 131 companies in California suffered data breaches in 2012, affecting 2.5 million residents."
"U.S. citizens have historically been protected from government surveillance by technical limits, not legal ones, writes independent security researcher Ashkan Soltani at MIT Tech Review. He claims that recent leaks show that technical limits are loosening, fast, with data storage and analysis cheap and large Internet services taking care of data collection for free. 'Spying no longer requires following people or planting bugs, but rather filling out forms to demand access to an existing trove of information,' writes Soltani."
Idiot’s Guide to Snooping on Europe
SpicyBrownMustard sends in a fascinating data visualization at Zeit Online showing what information about a person's life can be gleaned from cellphone metadata. Quoting: "Green party politician Malte Spitz sued to have German telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom hand over six months of his phone data that he then made available to ZEIT ONLINE. We combined this geolocation data with information relating to his life as a politician, such as Twitter feeds, blog entries and websites, all of which is all freely available on the internet. By pushing the play button, you will set off on a trip through Malte Spitz's life. The speed controller allows you to adjust how fast you travel, the pause button will let you stop at interesting points. In addition, a calendar at the bottom shows when he was in a particular location and can be used to jump to a specific time period. Each column corresponds to one day."There are many photos of the Vietnam War, but a veteran who took photos one fateful evening decided to keep them secret. He has now released them 40 years later.
State Department officials spent $630,000 to get more Facebook "likes," prompting employees to complain to a government watchdog that the bureau was "buying fans" in social media, the agency's inspector general says.
How an Israeli billionaire wrested control of one of Africa’s biggest prizes.
I have this clock on my mancave wall that I never have to set and it is always totally accurate because it receives a radio signal beamed from the base of the Rocky Mountains every night.
Making $7.75 an Hour, and Figuring There’s Little to Lose by Speaking Out
Some humans are totally disgusting
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/restore-the-fourth-secure-your-privacy
http://www.restorethefourth.net/resources/
The FISA court found that the National Security Agency's surveillance under the FISA Amendments Act is unconstitutional (source: EFF).
ACLU has stated that the spy program is illegal
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As for the NSA their surveillance of Americans is far more dangerous to our country than any terrorist. Terrorists might kill a couple hundred or a thousand people, but the NSA can archive every single one of our activities and provide it to a government that may not be so friendly in another 10 or 20 years. Can you say genocide? Ideocide? Just because the Government is sane right now doesn't mean it will be in 2, 5, or 10 years. This information can be abused far more easily than it can be used to catch terrorists, so why collect it unless you eventually plan to abuse it?
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