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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 campuses and continued to flourish there the most. It was not until 2010
Read More »Spread your Professional Network Through Linked In
by Claire Jarrett
After the economic downturn, job markets are making a careful and gradual recovery in most parts of the world. While recruiters are being cautious and taking extra measures to select
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 that myth. Google has released figures based on the following – “Requests
Read More »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 all the more ironic because Obama’s political movement supposedly mastered the new art
Read More »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 Titanic to the $100 bill and even Playboy Bunnies. But wait, you
Read More »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 why he had his fingerprints and DNA sampled after he became the victim of
Read More »New Search Tool for Mining Government Documents
New Search Engine Highlights EFF’s Transparency Efforts During Sunshine Week San Francisco – In celebration of Sunshine Week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today launched a sophisticated search tool that allows the public to
Read More »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 viewed President-elect Barack Obama’s personal cellphone account, and said it planned to discipline workers for
Read More »Microsoft to ban freedom of speech?
By James Sherwood Microsoft has come over all PC – gedddit?!?!? – by filing a patent application for technology that’ll stop you from swearing online. In its “Automatic censorship of audio data for broadcast”
Read More »$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 below ground: the contract for the electronic security system alone is
Read More »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 file sharing. Businesses can face serious consequences from illegal file sharing which takes place
Read More »Secret Military Technology
By Bruce Schneier | On 60 Minutes, in an interview with Scott Pelley, reporter Bob Woodward claimed that the U.S. military has a new secret technique that’s so revolutionary, it’s on par with the
Read More »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 blasted into space today. So don’t leave your underwear lying all over your lawn. Andy Plesser
Read More »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 of the Internet. There are approximately 1 billion Internet users
Read More »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 heads. The device – dubbed MEDUSA (Mob Excess Deterrent Using
Read More »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 extradition to the House of Lords, arguing it would breach his human rights. Gary McKinnon,
Read More »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 radio frequency identification (RFID) chips implanted in their schoolbags. The Middletown School District,
Read More »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 by a Welsh MP. Jenny Willott, the Liberal Democrat MP for Cardiff Central, will present
Read More »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 are working on another form of biometrics that could allow law enforcement agencies and airport security
Read More »In-flight surveillance in every seat
New Scientist | CCTV cameras are bringing more and more public places under surveillance – and passenger aircraft could be next. A prototype European system uses multiple cameras and “Big Brother” software to try
Read More »Orwellian Ubiquitous Computing?
By Daniel Taylor | “…just by walking down the street you could be subject to a personal biometric system, you could be scanned by the gateway of the transit system, there could be something
Read More »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 our bank accounts and stock portfolios, or our itemized bills, listing
Read More »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 were issued speed tablets to head off fatigue on the battlefield. More
Read More »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 skills. The event is the UK Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) answer to the
Read More »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 significantly to weaken passport control in the UK. Starting this summer, border guards will
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