Tag: privacy
Twitter Watch: Library of Congress keeps tweets on file unavailable to public
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In the 7 years since its inception, Twitter has become an integral part of twenty first century life. Reflecting everything, from people's routine habits, to revolutionary political messages. And for the last 2 year...
Four Most Dangerous Hacks You Didn’t Know Existed
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The 2013 RSA Cryptographer's Conference revealed a number of invasive security attacks computer hackers are using to break into systems today. Because of the US's reliance on technology to control everything from ou...
TSA says yes to knives, no to shampoo
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The Transportation Security Administration recently implemented a new policy that has many airline passengers scratching their heads. According to the TSA website, the agency will now "allow knives that do not lock,...
US drones invade privacy of citizens
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The US Department of Homeland Security says domestic drones will be equipped with new bells and whistles to sound the alarm on potential suspects within the country, Press TV reports. The US Predator drones are bein...
Repeat offender: Google violates your privacy yet again
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The Internet giant Google has access to private information for millions of its users around the world. And although many consumers feel that their information is secure, Google has been caught sharing the data of m...
The Stream – The privacy bargain
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Follow The Stream on Al Jazeera: stream.aljazeera.com YOUTUBE: TWITTER: twitter.com INSTAGRAM: GOOGLE+ google.com FACEBOOK: WEBSITE: stream.aljazeera.com **************************************************** Autho...
Techquity: Apple hacked, Google hits another high
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Feb 19 - Apple says it was hacked while Google rises as European regulators consider a huge fine for the search giant.
Good hacker, bad hacker: Which side is Jeremy Hammond on?
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The Obama administration has stressed the importance of America's cybersecurity in a world where the threat of a attack is imminent. And in an effort to attract the attention of tech-savvy Americans, the White Hous...
Mainstream media teed off over Obama secret golf game
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On Monday, in recognition of the federal holiday, President's Day, Obama took to the golf course to compete with none other than Tiger Woods. If you were wondering how the fommander-in-chief's game compared to the g...
Congress to adopt anti-drone legislation?
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While surveillance drones multiply in the skies , a Republican congressman from Texas - Ted Poe - is addressing the privacy concerns that come with them. He introduced the "Preserving American Privacy Act" which cla...
Library of Congress Storing All Your Tweets
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It's part of the social media landscape that has revolutionized the way communicate. Twitter allows users to broadcast their thoughts 140 characters at a time. From the mundane to the historic, the Library of Congre...
SNOPA to protect your privacy?
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With the click of mouse it is easy to find out almost anything about a person you meet. The age of information and social media websites have facilitated the process, and now employers have been requesting employee'...
Big brother not only watching: New spy software can ‘predict future’
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The US government's stepping-up efforts to spy on its citizens - with a new defense software, able to predict people's future behavior and locations. However, with the program only using data submitted voluntarily v...
Tweet Twit: Govt stores messages to create life snapshot?
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There are now close to two-hundred billion tweets stored in databases at the library of congress in the US The government says it wants to keep a snapshot of life in the country seen through online messages - but so...
Instagram lies
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Instgram is not doing its job when it comes to addressing violent/hate speech through users photos. Despite the many attempts of flagging a photo, they have not taken action to have the "user" remove the photo. I am...
Big Data is watching you
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The European Union is in the process of re-drafting its pre-internet laws on data protection to take account of the explosion of personal data online and the risk of its misuse. The FT's Josh de la Mare reports on t...
Inside Story – Taking on Twitter over hate speech
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A Jewish group in France is taking the micro-blogging site Twitter to court, putting the issue of freedom expression, personal privacy, online accountability and state control on a collision course. Guests: Elie Petit...
Anonymous Face Unrecognition
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Created by Ali Reza Kohani as part of a installation focusing on technology and privacy. Anonymous is a Processing / Open CV application which uses Haar Cascade facial recognition to find and scratch out faces in an v...