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DHS Announces New Information-Sharing Tool for Fusion Centers (1)
• Dialogic » POLICING FREE SPEECH: Police Surveillance and Obstruction of First Amendment‐Protected Activity: [...] ‐ The Texas Fusion Center’s Prevention Awareness Bulletin ‐ The Missouri Fusion Center’s Document on the Modern Militia Movement [...]

Washington Post: Montgomery to ID with finger vein scanners  (1)

• Strider: And if you believe that last paragraph, I’ve got a lifetime lift pass at “Ski Miami” to sell you.

Opinion at Time: The Government Can Use GPS to Track Your Moves (1)

• Michael: Tracking someone is DEFINITELY an invasion into your privacy. What is the difference if they spy on you electronically or physically? The result is the same.

Chicago Tribune: New state law bans employer credit checks in hiring (1)

• Ron Congress: In survey after survey, including a recent MSNBC survey, more than 90 percent of Americans say that workplace discrimination based upon someone’s personal credit report is wrong and should be illegal. ZERO statistical evidence exists to tie bad credit reports to fraud! It’s already illegal in 3 states and HR3149: The Equal Employment for All Act would make it illegal in every state, but most Americans don’t even know the legislation exists. Please support the overwhelming will…

Latest Update on Pennsylvania School Webcam Surveillance Case (2)

• Techdirt » Feds Won’t Bring Charges Against School District Officials In Webcam Spying: [...] district has finally put in place new policies designed [...]

Gizmodo: End Of Privacy: City To Track People With Eye Scanners (1)

• Michael: Imagine if the ones they are looking for are the ones that are checking the cameras…

Point-Counterpoint at USA Today about Online Privacy (2)

• Michael: People should not over emphasize the meaning of cookies. Yes, they track data and yes, they can be dangerous but they are not overall evil. Every browser gives us the option to block cookies partly or completely. This is not always the best thing to do because it websites might stop functioning properly. Of course data can be tracked through cookies but if we disable them we are by far not anonymous on the internet.

PC World: How to Protect Your Smartphone’s Valuable Data  (1)

• Jason from F-Secure UK: As a big fan of the site, I wanted to add our free tool Anti-Theft for Mobile to a list of available options to protect the data on your smartphone. This video explains how it works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DntSjpgRPo

Op-Ed at Christian Science Monitor about Consumer Online Privacy (2)

• Radio Head: This is why I have yet to purchase anything off the Internet, it’s just a scary, unchartered place for me. It boggles me, and seriously freaks me out how social media these days can track my interest by storing my daily Internet activities, and think and point to things that I might be interested in, little things that are quite unnerving.

New York Times: Web Photos That Reveal Secrets, Like Where You Live (2)

• Radio Head: I guess this just proves much more that privacy is a long, forlorn dream. Aside from new methods of being tracked, hacking is essentially becoming an easier task.

Update on BlackBerry Smartphone Security Questions (1)

• MItch Lauer: BBM is not “Secret Email” In fact it is logged and can be tracked. GWAVA’s Retain for BlackBerry does this.

NPR: Lost Privacy, Naivete On The Internet (2)

• Michael: I had the same development. I did not care so much about my privacy because it was never a big deal if one or two companies know my name and maybe where I live. I think most people are like that which makes it easy for the companies to demand more and more data from the people. If we would actually know, how much is know about us I think most of us would pay more attention to his problem.

Canadian Press: Rogue tax workers snooped on ex-spouses, family members (1)

• CRAWhistle: Unauthorized access to taxpayer accounts is a summary conviction criminal offence under ss. 239(2.2) of the Income Tax Act. However, the federal government has a policy of never laying criminal charges under this provision while regularly prosecuting taxpayers. This is a violation of the rule of law. In addition, while the names of convicted taxpayers are published it is impossible to get the names of CRA employees who have violated the privacy of taxpayers even though these…

Washington Post: Proposal would give FBI easier access to Internet data (1)

• Ross Wolf: Last week the FBI asked for the power to obtain without warrants, Citizens’ “electronic communication transactional records” including addresses that persons sent email. The FBI’s request cannot be considered separately; because if anyone of numerous bills pending in Congress pass, the FBI would have even more power, to detain Americans without probable cause, on mere suspicion, based only on electronic communications the FBI obtained without warrants. For example, Sen….

Update on Digital Signage Privacy: Tokyo trials digital billboards that scan passers-by (2)

• Roi Iglesias: Digital Signage audience measurement tools do not violate any privacy policy… see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTw7epCW2pI

New York Times: The Economics of Privacy Pricing (1)

• Kirk Rangold: It’s an excellent point! Will people want to keep their privacy if they can be paid to give it up? Of course, each person will answer that question on their own. I would like to see the details on how to make the trade-off. How can I keep my information private so that I could sell it in the future? I know there are applications like TrulyMail and PGP which help keep my communications private but how can I ensure that nobody can find out anything about me? The greatest…

Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush Introduces Privacy Bill, Will Hold Hearing on Consumer Privacy (1)

• Logical Extremes: Potentially promising, but I am concerned with this bit of news that the new bill doesn’t allow affected individuals to review their commercial dossiers (which, as we are quickly learning, are increasingly being used to make decisions about our lives by both commercial AND government entities): http://privacychoice.wordpress.com/2010/07/20/the-rush-bill-fails-on-visibility/

Camera Surveillance and the Attempted Car Bombing in Times Square (1)

• knight: using surveillance camera systems nowadays have become a very strong tool against crimes on the street like that of what had happened to Time Square…. Good! i also have installed cameras on my own house which i bought from http://www.kprotection.com nice!

UPDATE on NSA’s ‘Perfect Citizen’ Program (1)

• Rwolf: NSA Illegally Wiretapped Your Phone, Fax and Private Email Communications: Now Your Internet Does U.S. Government have reason to fear the American People? In 2008 Telecoms were granted government immunity after they helped U.S. Government spy on millions of Americans’ electronic communications. Since, Government has not disclosed what happened to NSA’s millions of collected emails, faxes and phone call information that belong to U.S. Citizens? Could those wiretaps perhaps illegal,…

Independent (Ireland): Private data at risk as more than 50 laptops lost by State (1)

• Vicky: This is a very sad story.But a company should always at least have backups.Well there are very many online backup systems now days but it depends on the costs and the services a particular online backup system is offering.Well i have a small company and we backup all our files online with an online backup called safecopy backup.Safecopy is so compatible with mac computers and also with iphones and smart phones.The prices are so effecitive because for 200GB one only pays 5bucks a year…

Business Insider: Mark Zuckerberg’s 2004 Email Break-In Could Be A Felony (2)

• ShinTav: I think that while rape and/or imprisonment may be quite a schadenfreude moment for many of this man’s customers (or, as he refers to them, ‘fucking morons’), a public and messy trial is more important. Facebook needs something that will put the last nails in it’s coffin, and this is it. Whether or not Zuck gets screwed (literally or metaphorically), people need to wake up to what his company is doing and find viable alternatives.

CNN: Breastfeeding rooms hidden in health care law (2)

• former nursing mother: In order to provide a secluded enough space (and apparently a door that locks is not enough), this female bike commuter will now get to shower with the guys. Obamacare is A)discouraging from helping the environment/reducing oil dependency by bike riding and B) taking away opportunities for healthy exercise.

DHS Privacy Office Releases Guide to Implementing Privacy (2)

• uberVU – social comments: This post was mentioned on Twitter by Privacy Digest: RT @PrivacyLaw: “DHS Privacy Office Releases Guide to Implementing #Privacy” http://bit.ly/9ExG8p …

News Leader: Virginia removes personal information from disabled parking permits (1)

• David: Good. My mom hated disclosing these information. I recently found her a unique gadget called Visortag at www.visortag.com to protect her tag, and allow her to easily swing it down when she park, and up when she drives. it is a cool gadget and priced right. Very sturdy, clips to visor and protects the tag and what is nice about it is you can tape over the the name and birthdate and insert it into the holder and it will never move. Having the registration should be enough to verify the…

Department of Justice Report: 3.4 Million Americans Are Victims of Stalking (7)

• Chris Skinner: I have been stalked by a crooked and corrupt radical WRONG-wing extremist Mormon billionaire (Simplot) and all his organized crime thugs for years. They are the same people who instigated the sex scandal against President Bill Clinton. It entails discrimination,harassment,bugging and wire-tapping and various crimes committed against me. It is all the more frustrating due to the fact that the closed-minded arrogance and ignorance of this extremely conservative American society…

Computerworld: Employee monitoring: When IT is asked to spy (2)

• kellybriefworld: It’s crazy to me to think that social media has become such a problem to IT departments that they are now spying on their own employees. Why not have a system in place that blocks certain harmful parts of social media and have some beneficial parts accessible to employees? Then IT wouldn’t have to worry about what is going on with an employee’s social media activity and could focus on something productive. I found a few whitepapers created by Palo Alto Networks, they…
• Freedom Offshore: This is a huge pet peave. Employers who spy on employees personal, private computers. Its bad enough you are forced to spend 20 hours a day at the office, or at home working on office stuff. Now they are policing your other 4 hours as well. Most companies use a type of virtual desktop system for their employees to work at home. Which is as far as the security should go. Just what is viewed or browsed through the virtual desktop. They justify being able to spy on everything…

Several Updates on Google WiFi Privacy Controversy (2)

• WowBill: @Bill McMinn The law disagrees with you.
• Bill McMinn: It’s the responsibility of anybody with a WiFi router to set up encryption and a good password to keep data private. Those who let their WiFi networks transmit in the clear on the public airwaves only have themselves to blame for their data getting captured and compromised.

MSNBC: Is Amazon peeking over Kindle users’ shoulders? (1)

• Privacy Lives: This post is being targeted by spambots, so I’m going to close the comments. Feel free to comment on another post.