Stolen Phone Beams Photos To Owner, Who Puts Them On Facebook : All Tech Considered. Hide captionA month after Katy McCaffrey's iPhone was stolen, photographs began streaming from the phone to her "cloud" account.
She used them to create a photo album on Facebook; she called it "Stolen iPhone Adventures. " Facebook A month after Katy McCaffrey's iPhone was stolen, photographs began streaming from the phone to her "cloud" account. Congressmen: Do Government Agencies Regularly Spy On Federal Employees' E-Mails? Ten Women Major Magazines Should Be Commissioning. By Alyssa Rosenberg on March 1, 2012 at 4:06 pm "Ten Women Major Magazines Should Be Commissioning" Mac McClelland is a female reporter, who is more than capable of doing the same work as her male counterparts.
In keeping with our conversation on Tuesday about the pathetically small number of pieces by women published in major American magazines, I thought I’d move beyond frustration to solutions. Your Digital Self Is On An Auctioning Block Every Single Day. Could Target Sell Its 'Pregnancy Prediction Score'? Lawmakers to Homeland Security: Social Media Monitoring is a Threat.
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Department of Homeland Security's monitoring of social media services could be a threat to civil liberties and online free speech, several lawmakers said during a hearing Thursday. According to a report by a civil liberties group called the Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, DHS paid more than $11 million to General Dynamics for a system to keep an eye on Facebook and Twitter public posts, as well as comment threads on major news websites. EPIC's report found that the system watches public social media posts for comments that "adversely reflect" on the government, and for responses to proposed government plans. EPIC tried to get information about the deal through a Freedom of Information request, but was denied. It then filed a successful lawsuit and was granted access to the specifics by DHS.
During Thursday's hearing, congressmen from both sides of the asile grilled DHS about the General Dynamics deal as revealed by EPIC's lawsuit. Reps. This Week In Horrible Journalism: Jezebel's Rape Photos. Kim Kardashian Has A Google Alert On Her Name, And So Should You. The Technologies Are New; The Privacy Fears Aren't. Did Joining LinkedIn Cost This Guy His Job? LinkedIn case adjourned until May.
Why Facebook Fiercely Protects The Privacy Of One Group. In the classic movie The Princess Bride, the villain Vizzini states there are two classic blunders we all should avoid: Never get involved in a land war in Asia; and never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
If we were to add a third for modern times, it might be “never trust Facebook with your privacy.” That’s why the U.S. Federal Trade Commission just reached an agreement with Facebook that mandates Facebook protect user privacy. The agreement also subjects Facebook to audits on privacy by the Feds for the next two decades. In response, Mark Zuckerberg admitted the company had made mistakes in handling user privacy and he listed a number of actions the company will take to protect user privacy going forward. So privacy has been a problem for the fast-growing company. Who am I talking about? Now, I’d bet that pretty much everyone reading this blog who has been on Facebook has done the Facebook Stalk at least once. Obama Administration Finally Gives Teeth To Federal Privacy Watchdog. Background Check Suit Challenges Constitutionality of FCRA’s Seven-Year Limit on Reporting Adverse Information.
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Department of Justice has moved to intervene to defend the constitutionality of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) against a consumer reporting agency accused of violating § 605 of the FCRA. On November 23, 2010, Shamara T. King filed suit against General Information Services, Inc. (“GIS”) in Pennsylvania federal court claiming violations of the FCRA. GIS claims that the seven-year limitation violates the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. Although King brought suit against the consumer reporting agency, employers should take note of the results of this case. Pennsylvania Court Orders Personal Injury Plaintiff to Turn Over Facebook Password to Defendant. [Post by Venkat Balasubramani] Largent v.
Reed, 2009-1823 (Pa. Ct. of Common Pleas; Nov. 8, 2011) Keith and Jessica Largent were involved in an accident in 2007. Privacy. Privacy Policy Changes Should Be Crystal Clear, Especially When Your Genetic Info Is Involved. The Department Of Homeland Security Wants All The Information It Has On You Accessible From One Place. Feds turn to dating websites and facial recognition tools to catch crooks. Army Uses Web Tool to Track Bradley Manning Mentions. If you've ever sent a tweet about Pfc.
Bradley Manning you can safely assume someone working for the Army's public affairs department took notice. Manning, who is charged with being a source for WikiLeaks in 2010, had a hearing last month. The public affairs department for the U.S. Lawmakers to Homeland Security: Monitor More Social Media. The top two members of a House subcommittee want the Department of Homeland Security's intelligence chief to keep a closer watch on social media traffic.
According to Reuters, Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-PA) and Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) wrote a letter to DHS Intelligence Chief Caryn Wagner pressing her to more carefully monitor users' posts on sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Meehan is the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee's subcommittee for intelligence and counter-terrorism, while Speier is the subcommittee's highest ranking Democrat. A Homeland Security spokesman told Reuters that the DHS currently monitors social media only "within the clearly defined parameters articulated" in published department privacy guidelines. However, none of the publicly accessible DHS privacy guidelines, save a white paper on the EINSTEIN hacking detection system, mention the words "social," "Facebook," "Twitter" or "Internet.
" Lawmakers to Homeland Security: Social Media Monitoring is a Threat. FBI Wants to Monitor Social Media. The FBI is looking to develop a web application that can monitor social networks, including Facebook and Twitter, in order to gain better real-time intelligence about current or potential future security threats or situations.
This plan was inadvertently revealed by the FBI's Strategic Information and Operations Center (SOIC) in a market research request for a "Social Media Application. " The eagle-eyed New Scientist picked up on the request, which aims to "determine the capabilities of the IT industry to provide a social media application. " Government agencies like the FBI are usually reluctant to openly discuss how social networks are used as an intelligence tool. FBI Searches Social Media For Insider Trading. The FBI launched Perfect Hedge Investigations, an effort to root out insider trading that includes monitoring of social networks.
The emphasis on social media and online communications platforms like Skype accents how complex law enforcement is becoming in the connected era: a simple phone tap or document subpoena is no longer enough to catch Gordon Gecko-like figures in an age where people have dozens of options for sending information to associates. What Words Are Homeland Security Looking for When It Cyberstalks You On Social Media? Internet_Cafe.