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Ask yourself this: Are you a statistic or a specific example? That’s the question being raised in the aftermath of a study in which researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people to determine their movement patterns. Such studies are considered invasions of privacy — and illegal — in the United States, but [...]
So I saw the following story on the BBC and my initial reaction was that it made me cringe. Now, one argument is that if you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about but knowing that your every move is being tracked and stored by the government just doesn’t give me the [...]
Living life in the USA means your banking activity, credit history, income generation, TV watching, purchases, where you go online, or just about everything except breathing is tracked. If you want to believe some, they average the amount of “utots” you have and declare your butt or “puwet” a hazard to the environment.
So how [...]
Rockstar have announced plans for a social club website for Grand Theft Auto IV where you can have your in-game performances tracked online.
The Rockstar Social Club will allow you to gain access to leader boards and performance-based competitions and awards.
All you will have to do is register using your Xbox Gamertag or PlayStation Network [...]
The facts about predatory loan practices in minority communities are not new. In 2006 the Center for Responsible Lending released a study that found when income and credit risk were equal, African-Americans were more than 30 percent more likely to receive higher-rate, more expensive subprime loans than Caucasians. A 2007 report by the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (
Yea, I always pretty much assume everything is tracked. They say this is public space... when your on the net, you lose your privacy. Telcoms get immunity - why shouldnt ISP's right? Fuck that. Truthfully, I dont care if they do it for advertising, but fuck, leave it at that! I have invested a lot of trust into Google and Yahoo!... I'd hate to see them let us down with any corruption or
LegalView Continues to Track Mesothelioma Information with Details of One Woman's Tragic Diagnosis LegalView's newly updated mesothelioma blog highlights the latest jury verdicts and asbestos-related information including the story of one individual's tragic childhood asbestos exposure. A woman who, after years of hugging her father as he returned home from work each day as a dockyard worker, was diagnosed with mesothelioma cancer just after her father died from the cancer. Denver, CO - November 21, 2007 -- LegalView.com, the source for everything legal on the Web, continues to follow developments concerning the deadly cancer mesothelioma via its mesothelioma blog by tracking the story of a United Kingdom woman whose father recently died of mesothelioma. Even more unfor
-Qatar has the second largest population of dugongs in the world, but little is known of these secretive creatures that often avoid the ocean’s shallows.Dugongs feed on sea grass at the bottom of the sea. The creatures are slow moving, and a recent study in California found that they avoid their natural predators, sharks, by staying in deep water.Now these rare creatures, which may be in danger of extinction, are to be tracked by military cameras mounted on helicopters in part of a initiative by SCENR, Dolphin Energy and the Qatar Air force, according to the Gulf Times.If you want to know more about Qatar’s marine life, watch out for the second of Francis Gillespie’s article on Qatar Nature, which will be published next month and will include pictures of dugong. The first article, An Introduction to Qatar’s Natural History, can be seen on the Natural History section of our website.Note - image taken from Wikipedia's page on Dugongs.Also see Qatar Sea SlugsQatar Visitor e-store
According to researchers at UC Riverside, “use a blocklist or you will be tracked… 100% of the time“. That’s an awful statistic. It comes from an article found on Ars Technica, so you know its pretty darn reputable information. I recommend you read the whole article (already linked up there). However, here is a small excerpt:
Title: P2P researchers: use a blocklist or you will be tracked… 100% of the time
The old cliché “You’re not paranoid if they really are out to get you” turns out to apply quite nicely to the world of P2P file-sharing. A trio of intrepid researchers from the University of California-Riverside decided to see just how often a P2P user might be tracked by content owners. Their startling conclusion: “naive” users will exchange data with such “fake users” 100 percent of the time.
Sources: ARS TECHNICA via HACK THE PLANET rss
Basically, at the very least, you need to use a blocklist or you ar
Just two days after the House version of a sweeping patent reform bill passed the US House of Representatives by a voice vote - meaning the supporters were obviously louder than the opponents - the bill as reported to the Senate swept through the Judiciary Committee, most likely with very few amendments.
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FBI agents trying to track down an anonymous MySpace user who was threatening to blow up a school used spyware to trap him.Fifteen year-old student Josh Glazebrook had the surveillance software sent to him by government agents after he threatened Timberline High School near Seattle.According to an affidavit obtained by Wired News, FBI agent Norman Sanders described the software as a "computer and internet protocol address verifier".The spyware program, which is known as CIPAV, logs the following: The computer's IP address The MAC address The person's username The last URL visited A list of open ports Computer programs that are running The operating system The internet browser and version The computer's registered owner The IP address of every other computer to which the PC connects for up to 60 days "We have not seen any evidence that this practice is becoming commonplace, but there have been occasions when the crime-fighting authorities have used malware to their advantage
GALESBURG, Ill. (AP) -- Five students denied diplomas after cheers erupted when their names were called at a high school graduation emerged empty-handed Tuesday from a meeting with school administrators.The students and their families met briefly with Galesburg High School officials at an administration building, but they were again denied the diplomas because no one apologized to school officials for the cheers at the May 27 ceremony. ...The students denied the diplomas say school officials wanted them to track down the cheering culprits. They say that is impossible, because they don't know who might have cheered in the crowd of about 2,000 people. This from WAVE TV.Photo: From the NY Times, Kent Kriegshauser/The Register Mail, via Associated Press(Gene Denisar, the schools superintendent in Galesburg, Ill., left, with Andrew Thomas Johnson, a senior, at graduation ceremonies in May.) ~And this Op-Ed from the Glasgow Daily Times.Graduation is supposed to be a celebratory time that ac
(Worldnetdaily.com).- Britain's national security service MI5 is testing surveillance cameras in enclaves of London and other Muslim-dominated area of Britain where terrorists are known to operate. Based on the latest satellite technology, the $10,000 cameras have a ring of eight powerful lenses that can provide a panoramic view. Software in the system can also indicate up to 50 behavior traits to identify a person "as a potential terrorist." Within a year the cameras will be able to signify "facial movements indicating tension and other furtive behavior," confirmed an MI5 officer.More
by Austin LunaSo you just purchased a very nice, expensive laptop computer for your creative desktop. No corner was overlooked in terms of storage, processor speed and graphics capabilities. Now it's time to protect your investment in a way that is fairly new and very unknown by your average criminals.Anti-theft software designed for installation on a laptop is out there and available for purchase from a few different companies. Search the internet for "anti-theft software for a laptop" to get started.After grabbing the anti-theft software and installing it, a small, hidden tracking program is activated. This program runs in the background and should not affect your laptop speed. The software works when the laptop is connected to the internet. Most anti-theft programs send a file that includes the location of the laptop to a monitoring server or email address.A few of the companies that make this awesome software are computrace and ztrace.
By Randolph E. Schmid, Associated PressIn a modern update of "fish and chips," researchers are planning a worldwide effort to track the movement of sea creatures tagged with tiny electronic devices.Following pilot testing in the north Pacific, the Ocean Tracking Network will expand to the Atlantic, Arctic, Mediterranean and Gulf of Mexico.Details of the expansion were scheduled to be announced Monday at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.Sea life ranging from salmon to whales, turtles to sharks, will be tagged so they can then be tracked as they swim past arrays of sensors placed at critical locations in the oceans.Read more at Environmental News Network
{mosgoogle right}FUNABASHI, Chiba -- A man who paid a junior high schoolgirl for sex has been arrested after he was tracked down through her mobile phone records, police said.Arrested for breaking the Law for Punishing Acts Related to Child Prostitution and Child Pornography was Toshinari Osako, 42, a company employee from Nerima-ku, Tokyo.Osako admits to the allegations.Police said that Osako paid 50,000 yen to the 15-year-old schoolgirl he met through an onl [...]
