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Little-known legal provision allows local governments to sell voter names and and addresses for as little as $10 per 1,000.

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Viacom wants to know which videos YouTube employees have watched and uploaded to the site, and Google is refusing to provide that information, CNET News has learned.
This dispute is the reason the two companies, and lawyers representing a group of other copyright holders suing Google, have failed to reach a final agreement on anonymizing personal [...]

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The team behind the popular torrent site The Pirate Bay has started to work on a new encryption technology that could potentially protect all Internet traffic from prying eyes.

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Skip to 4 minutes to see how it works. I wonder why the evil terrorist with a knife doesn’t just cut the wristband off before hijacking the plane? What a terrible idea and complete invasion of any law abiding person’s privacy.
It’ll be a crazy world when passengers are treated like dogs with shock collars. I [...]

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YouTube ordered to hand over to Viacom a complete log of all users’ activities, which will include a list of usernames, IP addresses, and videos that each account has viewed in the past.

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A law school professor and former criminal defense attorney tells you why you should never agree to be interviewed by the police. In part 2 an experienced police officer tells you why you should never agree to be interviewed by the police.

Part 2 after he jump…

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Sen. Feingold Asks: Why Should the Government Be Able to Search Our Laptops When We Return from Abroad?

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Despite upgrades and fixes, most browsers are still vulnerable to attacks via Web forms, researcher says.

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When Mayor Nutter announced late last year that he was hiring D.C. Charles Ramsey as his police commissioner, I said I would keep an open mind but I was dismayed at his treatment of anti-war protesters and his frequent clashes there over civil rights. So far, I’ve been mostly impressed with Ramsey — murders have [...]

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SAN JOSE, California (AP) — Todd Davis has dared criminals for two years to try stealing his identity: Ads for his fraud-prevention company, LifeLock, even offer his Social Security number next to his smiling mug.
Now, LifeLock customers in Maryland, New Jersey and West Virginia are suing Davis, claiming his service didn’t work as promised and [...]

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Discovering odd or unique images on Google Street View has become a hobby for many people, who post their findings to websites like Streetviewr and Street View Gallery.
Some of my favorites from Google Street View…

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So you think you know something about data privacy? A lot of Californians did, too — until some law school experts tested them.
In a research paper released yesterday, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law found that the majority of people they surveyed did not know how their personal data might be [...]

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I realize this is a silly example, but when people wonder, “why should I care about privacy?” It makes a little sense with such a “sensational” example. Checkout the ACLU website for more “official” info on protecting your privacy.

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