[infowarrior] - OpEd: What Are They Doing With All Our Data?

http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/op_ed/hc-donohue0117.artjan17,0,992533.s tory?coll=hc-headlines-oped What Are They Doing With All Our Data? Laura K. Donohue January 17 2006 Congress will soon hold hearings on the National Security Agency's domestic spying program, secretly authorized by Pr

[infowarrior] - Apple tweaks iTunes following privacy concerns

Apple tweaks iTunes following privacy concerns By John Borland http://news.com.com/Apple+tweaks+iTunes+following+privacy+concerns/2100-1027 _3-6028085.html Story last modified Wed Jan 18 09:08:00 PST 2006 Following a wave of privacy concerns last week, Apple Computer has begun prominently notify

[infowarrior] - JSG: Mass Spying Means Gross Errors

Mass Spying Means Gross Errors http://www.wired.com/news/columns/1,70035-0.html By Jennifer Granick | Also by this reporter The United States government either currently has, or soon will have, new technology that makes mass surveillance possible. The next question for citizens and other policy

[infowarrior] - New Firefox "feature" eases spying on users

New Firefox "feature" eases spying on users http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/darin/archives/009594.html A new proposed feautre in Firefox/Mozilla automates a common web-linking technique in a way that raises grave concerns about user-privacy. A common practice for some web-sites is to send people w