If you have a cellphone, it turns out that Sprint keeps 24 months of your location data and turns it over to law enforcement regularly. 8 million requests were made over the last year. Requests can be made every 3 minutes for up to 60 days. Sprint isn’t the only one who tracks this data: Read more about Sprint Makes Goverment Tracking of GPS Data Easy[…]
In 1969, Chairman Mao commanded the construction of a second Beijing beneath the surface of the original city, designed to accommodate all six million of its then inhabitants, so that if nuclear war did kick off, folk would still have somewhere to hang out and play Mah Jong while the rest of us burnt to Read more about Chairman Mao’s Underground Bunker Paradise[…]
The Dutch have a crazy plan to charge people per km they drive. How will they monitor this? By placing little black GPS boxes in every car. If you don’t have a working box in your car, you will face up to four (!) years in jail – more than most other forms of crime. Read more about Dutch KM system doesn’t invade privacy?![…]
Basically it’s all about the movie and music industry being able to kick you off the net and subject you to huge fines without any proof – just an accusation of filesharing is enough. It’s also about giving the business secretary the power to make up penalties and enforcements at whim. It’s not about stimulating Read more about UK Internet Law governed by media industry[…]
And allthough the authenticity of the 1079 emails and 72 documents hasn’t been verified, it shows that the researchers have manipulated the data to fit their models, can’t explain the lack of global warming and have plans set up to destroy the credibility of any scientist doubting their stance. Michelle Malkin » The global warming Read more about Oops – global warming researchers hacked[…]
If you don’t allow the third party cookie, you can’t logout! Great news for people using snotmail in libararies and internet cafe’s, where they often disable cookies for you… Hotmail imposes tracking cookies for logout • The Register.
Showing unbelievable balls by MS, incredible incompetency by the US Patent Office, and why software patents are such a manifestly bad idea, MS has managed to patent a method of privilege escalation commonly known among almost all *NIX users since almost the inception of *NIX as sudo. Groklaw – Microsoft Patents Sudo?!!.
This article is from a facebook advertiser, who explains how to make lots of money using false adverts, getting your email address, telephone number, or getting you to download a toolbar using less than exactly honest means. How To Spam Facebook Like A Pro: An Insider’s Confession.
2 council run adventure playgrounds in Watford are off limits to parents. Only “play workers” are allowed to supervise the children playing there. For some reason, the local council thinks it’s not appropriate for parents to be in the same area as playing 5 – 15 year olds. Let’s fuel the paedophile paranoia some more Read more about Parents not allowed to watch their children play – UK[…]
“The law in the Netherlands says that intercepted phone calls between attorneys and their clients must be destroyed. But the Dutch government has been keeping under wraps for years that no one has the foggiest clue how to delete them Google translation. Now, an email PDF from the National Police Services Agency KLPD has surfaced, Read more about Dutch Gov’t Has No Idea How To Delete Tapped Calls[…]
Yup – someone had to think of a way to turn those CCTV camera’s into something that everyone had access to! In an internet game, people are encouraged to use the CCTV network to spy on people in the street. Whoever catches the most “criminals” (say litterers or jaywalkers) gets GBP 1000,- every month! Have Read more about UK: CCTV snooping becomes a game[…]
The whole Pirate Bay saga continues: after strange court orders, dodgy sales, bans on Google, etc, etc, here is the latest: Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde has gone to the Dutch police and has charged the Brein organisiation with fabrication of evidence and fraud. Pirate Bay doet aangifte tegen Brein en Kuik – update 2 | Read more about Pirate Bay continues[…]
We should all know by now that the fingerprint biometric is a bad one: not only can you duplicate it fairly easily using just gummy bears, or increase the risk of having your finger cut off for you, they also give too many false negatives; some people will never be able to use fingerprint scanners. Read more about Dutch passports require unsecure fingerprints[…]
Lovely. If you’re an asylum seeker, the UK border patrols will want to take you DNA through your hair and nails to determine your nationality. Not only is this an insane breach of your person, there is also no scientific methodology being given out to show how exactly anything will be accomplished by the investigating Read more about UK wants your DNA[…]
Get this, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has a rather curious new addition built in to his latest oversized yacht. The 557-foot boat Eclipse, the price tag of which has almost doubled since original plans were drawn to almost $1.2 billion, set sail this week with a slew of show-off features, from two helipads, two swimming Read more about Russian Billionaire Installs Laser Shield on Floating Lair[…]
Because we all know how safe centralised government databases are, the Dutch are now preparing to store all fingerprints the get. At first this will happen per region and later all the databases will be linked and centralised. Dutch privacy organisations have protested at the EU, but they have declined the protest as the European Read more about Dutch government will store fingerprints in central database[…]
Even though they keep supporting Internet Explorer 6, they’re not going to support XP? Microsoft had stated the reason for continuing support for IE6 was that it came with Windows XP and so they had to keep supporting it. Now it turns out that they’re not supporting XP either. Not exactly their road map, but Read more about XP no longer being patched by MS[…]
They’re curbing them! They don’t want people, corporations or the government itself to collect too much data on individuals and they certainly don’t want that linked up. An individual’s privacy is important, they think. Well done Scotland! Scottish gov to curb personal data collection • The Register.
Yet again the UK has managed to fluff it, losing a USB stick with all the logon data (yes, and passwords) to the UK Government Gateway. This holds all kinds of data about UK Citisens. With the plan to link National ID cards to crime databases, they UK will not only give anyone who can Read more about UK Gov loses MORE data![…]
This is the cyber air force, responsible for defensive as well as offensive use of cyberspace – ie. hacking, sniffing and cracking other nation’s networks, as well as defending US networking. US military cyber force activated • The Register.
It’s Hidden is a Dutch VPN service that allows you to surf the web and bittorrent anonymously. They say they don’t store any data and they encrypt it for you. The results I’ve seen so far show that they’re a fast service. Home.
The US DHS, not happy with branding incoming people criminals and fingerprinting them at entry points, now also wants to fingerprint you as you leave.
Quite surprisingly, the heriditiary rules of the UK, the House of Lords, is fighting vigorously for the UK populace’s right to privacy. Probaby because they know the first people the government will go after is them. The Government isn’t having any of it. They say that we can trust them to treat the data securely Read more about UK Gov wants big brother, Lords doesn’t[…]
Children as young as seven are being recruited to tattle on their neighbours. They are being taught how to collect evidence unseen as well as being given a special action pack complete with all the information and items you need to spy on your community in order to prosecute legally. They are calling themseslves ‘Street Read more about Hitler Jugend makes it to the UK[…]
Well there it is: every baby will be stamped with a digital prison tatoo at birth. Only *cough* 300.000 childcare professionals – who are especially trustworthy technically adept people who will NEVER compromise the integrity of the database and leak data to anyone else, just like the UK government never does – will have full, Read more about UK Launches db of EVERY CHILD in the UK[…]