Vladeck says Twitter failed to do enough to secure its site, allowing a hacker with a password-guessing program to commandeer customer accounts. After Facebook in April changed its privacy policy in a way that troubled some users, four U.S. senators filed a complaint with the FTC.
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May 15, 2010 09:40
Green police have spies making sure you are ‘green’ enough
Rush’s morning update notes how leftists don’t mind violating privacy over ‘green’ issues just over national security.
April 30, 2010 05:33
New agency in finance reform bill allows spying on everyone’s transactions
Under the bill’s current language, according the Senate Banking Committee sources, the OFR under the new federal law would be allowed to collect any financial data it chooses, whether from individual citizens or businesses. Under the language of the bill, the data center can collect and maintain “all data necessary” to monitor the financial system.
April 26, 2010 04:10
Google Street View logs your WiFi networks, Mac addresses
Is Google the real big brother? With its cozy relationship with the Obama administration, this should send a chill down your leg.
March 24, 2010 05:21
A Point of No Return? by Thomas Sowell
“..how many people will be bold enough to criticize our public servants, who will in fact have become our public masters?”
February 11, 2010 12:29
Feds push for tracking cell phones
Obama administration has argued that warrantless tracking is permitted because Americans enjoy no “reasonable expectation of privacy” in their–or at least their cell phones’–whereabouts. “The government is arguing that based on precedents from the 1970s, any record held by a third party about us, no matter how invasively collected, is not protected by the Fourth Amendment.”
