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NY Times: How Companies Learn Your Secrets

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NY Times: How Companies Learn Your Secrets

From the article: “The reason Target can snoop on our shopping habits is that, over the past two decades, the science of habit formation has become a major field of research in neurology and psychology departments at hundreds of major medical centers and universities, as well as inside extremely well financed corporate labs. “It’s like an arms race to hire statisticians nowadays,” said Andreas Weigend, the former chief scientist at Amazon.com.”

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Justice Sotomayor on Digital Surveillance, 3rd Parties, and Societal Expectations of Privacy in Public

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In United States v. Jones the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that attaching a Global Positioning System (GPS) device to a vehicle for the purpose of location-tracking constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment. More notable than the unanimity of this … Continue reading →

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Understanding the Architectures of SOPA & PIPA

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Two controversial pieces of legislation that would significantly alter the architecture of the internet are currently being debated in congress: the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the … Continue reading →

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Growing Up Policed Vimeo Channel

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The official Growing Up Policed Vimeo Channel is now live! This channel includes video of presentations, panels, and discussions from the Growing Up Policed: Surveilling Racialized Sexualities Mini-Conference that took place at both the University of Oregon and the CUNY … Continue reading →

Betabeat: As Banks Start Nosing Around Facebook and Twitter, the Wrong Friends Might Sink Your Credit

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Betabeat: As Banks Start Nosing Around Facebook and Twitter, the Wrong Friends Might Sink Your Credit

From the article: “A new wave of startups is working on algorithms gathering data for banks from the web of associations on the internet known as “the social graph,” in which people are “nodes” connected to each other by “edges.” Banks are already using social media to befriend their customers, and increasingly, their customers’ friends. The specifics are still shaking out, but the gist is that eventually, social media will account for at least the tippy-top of the mountain of data banks keep on their customers.”

WSJ: Surveillance Company Says It Sent Fake iTunes, Flash Updates

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WSJ: Surveillance Company Says It Sent Fake iTunes, Flash Updates

From the article: “The Wall Street Journal unveiled on Saturday the “Surveillance Catalog” – an online database containing highlights from surveillance industry marketing documents. The documents show dozens of companies making and selling everything from “massive intercept” gear that can gather all Internet communications in a country to “hacking” tools that allow governments to break into people’s computers.”

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The Internet in Society: Empowering or Censoring Citizens?

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From the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA):

NY Times: FTC Urges Update to Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act

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NY Times: FTC Urges Update to Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act

From the article: “the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday proposed long-awaited changes to regulations covering online privacy for children … The proposed revisions expand the definition of “personal information” to include a child’s location, along with any personal data collected through the use of cookies for the purposes of targeted advertising. It also covers facial recognition technology.”

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Government Hypocrisy: Protect Intellectual Property, Collect Personal Data

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Mike German, ACLU policy counsel and former FBI agent, was recently on Reason.tv discussing domestic surveillance in post-9/11 America. German covers the U.S. government’s growing interest in collecting personal data, the development of data fusion centers, and the erosion of … Continue reading →

We Will Remember (Your Every Move)

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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN > The Apple of Its Eye: Security and Surveillance Pervades Post-9/11 NYC LA TIMES > A Key Sept. 11 Legacy: More Domestic Surveillance WIRED > How 9/11 Completely Changed Surveillance in U.S. MARKETPLACE > 9/11′s Effect on Tech AP > Documents Show NY Police Watched Devout Muslims
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LA Times: More Domestic Surveillance Is A Key 9/11 Legacy

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LA Times: More Domestic Surveillance Is A Key 9/11 Legacy

From the article: “U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies now collect, store and analyze vast quantities of digital data produced by law-abiding Americans. The data mining receives limited congressional oversight, rare judicial review and almost no public scrutiny. Thanks to new laws and technologies, authorities track and eavesdrop on Americans as they never could before, hauling in billions of bank records, travel receipts and other information. In several cases, they have wiretapped conversations between lawyers and defendants, challenging the legal principle that attorney-client communication is inviolate.”

AP: Documents Show NY Police Watched Devout Muslims

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AP: Documents Show NY Police Watched Devout Muslims

From the article: “The New York Police Department compiled lists of mosques and Muslim businesses it saw as potential security risks for reasons that included endorsing conservative religious views or having devout customers … That effort has benefited from federal money and an unusually close relationship with the CIA, one that at times blurred the lines between domestic and foreign intelligence-gathering.”

AFP: Estonia to boost web surveillance after Norway attack

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AFP: Estonia to boost web surveillance after Norway attack

“At the moment one thing is clear — as a preventive measure we plan to increase the capacity of Internet monitoring so we can pick up information from the Internet about possible attack plans or anything that can jeopardise internal security,” he told AFP.