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A Question of Social Media: On Kids and Students
Facebook started in a campus where it first struck the hearts of the jocks and cheerleaders. It continued in other college...
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Spread your Professional Network Through Linked In
by Claire Jarrett from Marketing By Web After the economic downturn, job markets are making a careful and gradual recovery...
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Anonymous Surfing – No Chance in the UK
If anyone had any vague ideas that what they do online is private then the recently released figures from Google should dispel...
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Obama vs. the iPad
President Obama’s disdain for new media has become so consistent that it is hard to dismiss as mere posturing. This is...
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3D Video Recording Coming to a Cell Phone Near You
When we say everything is going 3D, we really mean it. Roger Ebert notwithstanding, the world has gone gaga for 3D, from...
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Innocent man’s fury after police took fingerprint and DNA samples
AN ex-soldier who has served in Northern Ireland and guarded the royal family is calling for a police investigation into...
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New Search Tool for Mining Government Documents
New Search Engine Highlights EFF’s Transparency Efforts During Sunshine Week San Francisco – In celebration of...
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Obama’s Cellphone Account Breached by Verizon Employees
By AMOL SHARMA, Wall Street Journal | Verizon Wireless disclosed late Thursday that several of its employees accessed and...
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Microsoft to ban freedom of speech?
By James Sherwood Microsoft has come over all PC – gedddit?!?!? – by filing a patent application for technology...
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$20M Cameras at New York’s Freedom Tower Try to Detect ‘Anomalies’
By David W. Dunlap | This is the scale of 1 World Trade Center, the Freedom Tower, which is now beginning to emerge from...
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Lancaster University develop product to prevent illegal file sharing in the office
A Lancaster University spin out company based in InfoLab21 has developed a tool to help businesses clamp down on illegal...
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Secret Military Technology
By Bruce Schneier | On 60 Minutes, in an interview with Scott Pelley, reporter Bob Woodward claimed that the U.S. military...
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Google Satellite Now Watching You From 423 Miles Up
Henry Blodget | The GeoEye satellite that Google will use to provide mapping imagery at 50-centimeter resolution successfully...
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Death of Free Internet – Canada Will Be Test Case
In the last 15 years or so, as a society we have had access to more information than ever before in modern history because...
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Microwave ray gun controls crowds with noise
By David Hambling | A US company claims it is ready to build a microwave ray gun able to beam sounds directly into people’s...
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Hacker Appeals To House Of Lords
By Christopher Nickson | A British hacker accused to accessing US military and Nasa computers has taken his case against...
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U.S. School District to Begin Microchipping Students
By David Gutierrez | A Rhode Island school district has announced a pilot program to monitor student movements by means of...
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Take innocent people’s DNA off database, says Welsh MP
IC Wales | INNOCENT people would have their DNA taken off the Government’s controversial database under plans put forward...
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Gait Recognition Software Proposed For Surveillance At A Distance
Red Orbit | Biometrics is commonly associated retinal scans, iris recognition and DNA databases, but researchers in India...
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In-flight surveillance in every seat
New Scientist | CCTV cameras are bringing more and more public places under surveillance – and passenger aircraft could...
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Orwellian Ubiquitous Computing?
By Daniel Taylor | “…just by walking down the street you could be subject to a personal biometric system, you...
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Schneier: Our Data, Ourselves
By Bruce Schneier | In the information age, we all have a data shadow. We leave data everywhere we go. It’s not just...
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America’s Chemically Modified 21st Century Soldiers
By Clayton Dach | Amphetamines and the military first met somewhere in the fog of WWII, when axis and allied forces alike...
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English village to be invaded in spybot competition
By Ceri Perkins | A village in south-west England will shortly be swarming with robots competing to show off their surveillance...
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Facial recognition is same as tossing coin
By Geraint Bevan - NO2ID | After all the rhetoric about securing our borders, the Home Office has now announced its intent...




