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PATH: BS | Privacy

Bush Declares He Can Open Your Mail Posted by Pile (10334 views) [E-Mail link]
President Bush quietly has claimed sweeping new powers to open Americans' mail without a judge's warrant. Bush asserted the new authority Dec. 20 after signing legislation that overhauls some postal regulations. He then issued a "signing statement" that declared his right to open mail under emergency conditions, contrary to existing law and contradicting the bill he had just signed, according to experts who have reviewed it.
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BillBoard Liberation Front Makes AT&T Ads Truthful Posted by Pile (13282 views) [E-Mail link]
A rogue activist group that adds creative touches to advertising campaigns has announced their new target: AT&T
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Hillary Clinton Campaign Rented Out Her Donor Mailing List Posted by Pile (10216 views) [E-Mail link]
Political campaigns spend thousands, even millions of dollars to acquire good mailing lists. Last year, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton took the unusual step of renting out some of her lists. The transaction once again highlights the Clintons' connections to a businessman who now faces questions from the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Sears And K-Mart Installing Spyware On Users' Computers Posted by Pile (11208 views) [E-Mail link]
Visiting Sears.com (and Kmart.com) a few weeks ago, a user was offered a chance to join My SHC Community, for free, but what they received was, from a privacy perspective, very costly. Sears.com is distributing spyware that tracks all your Internet usage - including banking logins, email, and all other forms of Internet usage - all in the name of "community participation." Every website visitor that joins the Sears community installs software that acts as a proxy to every web transaction made on the compromised computer. Sears' response? ..It also states in simple English that if you don't want to participate, you don't have to and you can opt out at any point... Uh huh... If this wasn't bad enough, now there are ways you can see everything your neighbors have ever purchased at Sears!
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Why You Should Always Install It Yourself Posted by wizeGurl (9922 views) [E-Mail link]
It seems that a man in Pennsylvania brought his computer in to Circuit City so that he could have a new DVD burner installed. It was when the techs went to test the new burner, searching for video files to make a test burn, that they discovered the child pornography videos on the hard drive....
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AT&T's Internet Tapping: Massively Unconsitutional and Illegal Posted by Pile (10693 views) [E-Mail link]
Chris Dodd sat down with AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein. He�s the technician who revealed that the NSA has secret rooms for sweeping up massive amounts of electronic communications on the internet. Klein is calling on the Senate to not grant telecommunications companies retroactive immunity. He's also testifying to the scale of the Bush administration's electronic surveillance: "Everything you could imagine you use the internet for flows through these cables. It's not only international traffic, but a huge amount of domestic traffic too." Watch the video of Klein talking about why he opposes retroactive immunity.
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Microsoft Is Secretly Updating PCs Without Permission Posted by Pile (11238 views) [E-Mail link]
Even if you have Windows Updates turned off, people are discovering that their operating system is still contacting Microsoft and downloading and installing software on the system behind your back. And nobody really knows what's going on...
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TD Ameritrade's User Database Compromised Posted by Pile (11082 views) [E-Mail link]
Financial trading company, TD Ameritrade announced that some of its databases may have been compromised. The company discovered the security breach after their customers complained that they started to receive spam.
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"Storm Worm" Takes Over Millions Of Computers Posted by Pile (13159 views) [E-Mail link]
The authors behind a specific strain of malware are trying every trick in the book to get users to succumb to their ill-meaning plans. You name it, they've used it: weather news, personal greetings, reports that Saddam Hussein is still alive, reports that Fidel Castro is dead, sexy women, YouTube, and even blogs. The group seems hellbent on creating the largest botnet to date, and as long as users are stupid enough to click on things without thinking, they just might do it.
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Nobody Knows What's Going On With The U.S.'s "No Fly" List Posted by Pile (9583 views) [E-Mail link]
The government's terrorist screening database flagged Americans and foreigners as suspected terrorists almost 20,000 times last year. But only a small fraction of those questioned were arrested or denied entry into the United States, raising concerns among critics about privacy and the list's effectiveness. Supposedly more than 230,000 names are on the list and there are many stories of innocent people getting snagged on the list, but nobody knows how to remove innocent people from the list.
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