Tag: Surveilance
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Twitter, the FBI, and You
In the future, if you tweet out a photo of a hilarious, meme-tastic kitten, it might be best not to include terms like “white powder,” “dirty bomb,” or “Death to America.” Since late January, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been asking the IT industry to help it develop an open-source social-media application that would provide…
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HBGary: A sinister cyber-surveillance scheme exposed by Anonymous
Hacked emails from security contractor HBGary Federal reveal a disturbing public-private partnership to spy on web users In February 2011, the hackers’ collective Anonymous released 70,000 emails from security contractor HBGary Federal, which revealed that CEO Aaron Barr had offered the firm’s services to mount cyber-attacks against WikiLeaks and others on behalf of corporate…
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How to Beat Facial Recognition & the Surveillance State
Big Brother is watching you, though probably not in the ways most of us would imagine. Sure, the cameras at banks or airport checkpoints may be on the lookout for robbers or would-be terrorists, using facial recognition technology to match pictures to existing ones. But private enterprise is busy as well. If you tag a…