In what appears to be a coordinated assault, the e-mail accounts of at least a dozen rights activists, academics and journalists who cover China have been compromised by unknown intruders. A Chinese human rights organization also said that hackers disabled its Web site for a fifth straight day.
Facebook users are expressing strong disapproval of proposed privacy changes that will let the site share some user information with third-party Web sites and applications.
Under Facebook's current rules you're asked first if you want to share information (your name, photos and friends list) with third-party sites. The proposed policy, which Facebook hasn't implemented yet, would bypass asking you for approval when visiting some sites and applications Facebook has busines relationships with, sharing limited personal information automatically.
Warner Bros. Entertainment UK are providing internships to students with a computer/IT related degree to be actively part in reducing piracy on the web. The internship at £17,500 (around $26,000) a year, will not only give these students an insider knowledge into corporations fighting copyrighted file sharing, but an opportunity to potentially spy on their fellow students.
Justin Gawel says there's nothing too incriminating on his Facebook page.
"There are a lot of pictures of drinking [but] nothing naked or anything -- at least I don't think so," he said jokingly. Even so, the Michigan State University junior recently changed his Facebook display name to "Dustin Jawel" to keep his personal life from potential employers while applying for summer internships.
Oh Facebook, how do I love Thee? Let me count the ways...
Alright, yes, I do enjoy Facebook and Twitter, and once in a blue moon, I'll even check my LinkedIn account, but I don't really LOVE social media, nor do I use and abuse it the way some people do. You know the ones I'm talking about, the constant updates about every mundane, embarrassing detail of one's life that you never wanted to know and actually make you a bit mortified for the author.
We live in a database society. It is probably time we started getting used to it. The amount of information generated about us is only going to increase and the willingness to use it is not going to diminish. As technology develops and the will to manage, control and exploit is matched by the means to do so, there will be a constant struggle between the power of individuals and that of corporations, governments and others in civil society. So we all have database fates: our life courses will be shaped by what our information echo says about us.
The Transportation Security Administration, ominously known as the TSA, wants to be able to track your cellphone while you go through airport security. It wants to do so in order to better understand how airport security lines work in order to streamline the process. That’s the official reason. We could always jump to conclusions and assume the TSA just wants to know where you are so the government can control your every move. Not even I am that conspiratorial.
When a census worker visited Oliver Sarle's home in Warwick, R.I., the crusty farmer refused to answer a series of questions, including how much revenue his crops had generated the previous year and how many gallons of milk his cows had produced.
Sarle was charged with a misdemeanor: not answering questions posed by an official representative of the census. A Rhode Island judge sided with the government, ruling that the "information required by the statute to be collected must be assumed to be important and necessary for the public service."
Over the next four years, the amount of personal medical information online will increase exponentially, opening up new avenues for hackers to expose personal data that, unlike financial information, can result in a permanent violation of privacy.
There is that dark spot amongst the nice features Google Voice offers that so many people fail to realize: Google Voice can be a threat to your privacy.
