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Privacy Advocates: Who's Watching the FBI Watchers? September 11, 2012 
The FBI soon will begin offering client software for its nationwide facial recognition database at no charge to law enforcement agencies in the United States. This is the fourth element in its seven-increment Next Generation Identification Program. The facial recognition system was deployed as a pilot in February.
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Mobile Phone Privacy: Buck Stops With the User September 06, 2012 
Cellphone and smartphone users have a love-hate relationship with mobile apps. While they love the functionality and enhanced user experience they bring to the table, clearly many hate the perceived privacy intrusions, suggests a newly released report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
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Speak to Me Only With Thine Texts September 05, 2012 
Voice mail is following in the footsteps of radio, television, film, records and email. That is, it is a technology that is slowly being supplanted by a newer technology -- in this case text messaging -- and may eventually become obsolete.
So say new figures Vonage provided to USA Today.
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BitTorrent Sharers Beware: You Are Being Watched September 05, 2012 
Swappers using the popular file-sharing protocol BitTorrent are spied on constantly by monitoring services, some of them seeking to identify media pirates, researchers at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom reported Tuesday. Monitoring is particularly intense for files that are currently popular among sharers.
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Anonymous Dumps Trove of 1 Million Stolen Apple IDs September 04, 2012 
The hacktivist group Anonymous has published 1 million universally unique identifiers belonging to Apple devices. These were among more than 12 million UDIDs stolen from the laptop of FBI Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl, the group said. Anonymous deleted personal data before releasing the data on the Internet.
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Japan Sizes Up Social Media as an Emergency Response Tool August 30, 2012 
Today in international tech news: Japan's government engages in talks about devising an official social media emergency response system. Also: Sony unveils some nifty new gadgets in Berlin, including a water-resistant tablet; a journalist is arrested for hacking a blogger's email account; and Assange supporters go on strike.
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Huawei Bets Big on Lobbyists August 28, 2012 
Today in international tech news: A Chinese phone equipment company doubles down -- more like quadruples down -- on Washington lobbyists after the House launches an investigation into possible security threats. Also: Facebook has yet another problem in Germany; a report identifies the world's fastest-growing iOS and Android markets; and Samsung leaks an internal memo about Apple.
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TrapWire Spooks Dangled Their Wares in Front of Google, Salesforce August 13, 2012 
The makers of a video surveillance program developed by former United States Central Intelligence Agency staffers attempted to sell their system to several big-name tech firms, according to leaked memos. One of several internal emails written by executives at intelligence firm Stratfor has been published by WikiLeaks.
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The Remarketing Trap August 13, 2012 
There's a great chase scene in Minority Report when Tom Cruise, having been identified as a future murderer, is making his escape through a futuristic mall. There's a thin line between utopian ideals and dystopian realities, and it makes me chuckle to think that in the case of Minority Report, all that was needed to cross it was the involvement of a marketing department.
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Google Nicked in Safari Privacy Kerfuffle August 10, 2012 
Google has agreed to pay the U.S. Federal Trade Commission a $22.5 million fine to settle allegations that the search engine giant violated the privacy of Safari browser users. The fine, which is the largest the FTC has ever imposed, is part of its ongoing effort to enforce consumers' online privacy rights.
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Appellate Court Reversal Less About Wiretapping, More About Government Immunity August 08, 2012 
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday overturned a ruling by a lower court judge who had awarded $40,800 in damages and $2.5 million in attorney fees to the now-defunct Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation. This is the latest chapter in what has been a five-year challenge to the Bush administration's Terrorist Surveillance Program.
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FTC Wants New Rules to Protect Children's Privacy Online August 02, 2012 
The Federal Trade Commission announced Wednesday that it was considering new rules to protect children's privacy online. Regulators called for tougher privacy protections to make it harder for advertisers and social networks to collect information about children without permission from the parents.
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Social Media Olympics Becoming Social Media Headache July 31, 2012 
Today in international tech news: London claims that the 2012 games are the first-ever "social media Olympics," but that boast has come with headaches. Elsewhere, investors appear to have taken note of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's rapid growth; Palestine is becoming a tech hub; more.
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Google Still Hasn't Cleaned Out Its Private WiFi Data Closet July 30, 2012 
Google has not deleted the sensitive data it collected from private wireless networks in 2010, according to a recent report. Earlier, the company had promised regulators it would dispose of the information. The search engine giant originally collected the data while it was mapping areas for its Street View services.
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Twitter Breaks the Cycle July 30, 2012 
Today in international tech news: Twitter traffic gets the blame for Olympic cyclists' transmitters not sending signals, which forced one TV commentator to use his watch to estimate times. Also, Bloomberg is still in Internet timeout over its report on a Chinese politician's wealth; Korea is hit with anther round of hacking; Google admits to hoarding info in the UK, and more.
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Skype's Server Upgrade Triggers Wiretapping Worries July 24, 2012 
Fears have surfaced that Skype may be eavesdropping on communications over its service. The concern is that supernodes Microsoft is introducing to Skype could make it easier to monitor calls, because they route the voice data in addition to initiating communications between parties.
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Facial Recognition Faces Congressional Scrutiny July 20, 2012 
A senate committee met on Wednesday to discuss the promise and pitfalls of facial recognition technology. Led by its chair, U.S. Sen. Al Franken, the committee questioned privacy advocates as well as representatives of the FBI, the FTC and Facebook, about how the technology is being used and what privacy issues it raises.
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Twitter May Face Sisyphean Challenge in Protected Speech Battle July 20, 2012 
Twitter indicated Thursday that it will appeal a decision by New York County Criminal Court Judge Matthew Sciarrino Jr. that the microblogging site must hand over a user's posts. The case stems from an investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney regarding the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011 -- in particular, one that occurred in October, when protestors blocked the Brooklyn Bridge.
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Ratcheting Up Your Web-Browsing Privacy July 19, 2012 
I've never taken that much notice of my privacy, or lack of, as I've been surfing the Web. However, after recent, obviously targeted advertising directed at me, where the ads blatantly reflected some product research I had just performed, I decided to investigate. Innocuous focused advertising, which can be informative, can simply feel like a violation. Other intrusions can be downright dangerous.
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DNSChanger: Just a Dress Rehearsal July 16, 2012 
Despite dire warnings, the Internet didn't break last week when the FBI pulled the plug on the server controlling the DNSChanger botnet. An estimated 300,000 computers are still infected by the malware that ties them to the botnet, which was designed for large-scale click fraud.
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