Coalition Petitions DHS to Suspend Nudie Airport Scanner Technology
Looks like The Electronic Privacy Information Center - EPIC is hard at work blanketing the DHS with a variety of arguments why the porno scanners shouldn't be used. Religious freedom, privacy law, and even a simple argument that they're not effective enough for the money.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Airports, Backscatter Xray, TSASenators Send Angry E-mail to Facebook Over Privacy Changes
Some US senators are not happy about the new privacy changes and have sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg about it.
Facebook now obligates users to make publicly available certain parts of their profile that were previously private. If the user does not want to connect to a page with other users from their current town .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Facebook Forces Users to Display Hometown, Work, Interests
Looks like they're doing it again. This time, they've made a change where even information you've set to private will be fully visible to strangers.
Today, Facebook removed its users' ability to control who can see their own interests and personal information. Certain parts of users' profiles, "including your current city, hometown, education and .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]How to Permanently and Completely Delete Your Facebook Account
There have been stories in the past of how difficult and how impossible it is sometimes to remove information from Facebook. But if you get sick of it, you can just delete the account entirely using this technique..... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: FacebookLibrary of Congress to Archive all Tweets
The Library of Congress is planning to create a lasting record of all Tweets. In case you hadn't figured this out already, you have to be extra careful about what you post BEFORE it gets to the 'net.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Library of Congress, TwitterSchneier – Privacy is NOT Dead
Great summary of privacy from Bruce Schneier:
You've got a whole lot of tech CEOs proclaiming the death of privacy–especially when it comes to young people.
They're not technically sophisticated about privacy and make mistakes all the time, but that's mostly the fault of companies and Web sites that try to manipulate them for financial gain.
Hear, hear! Click here for the rest of .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Facebook, GoogleCyborgs In the Making
The creator of the Segway has been commissioned by DARPA to create a prosthetic arm that amputee soldiers can use to eat or perform daily tasks. Of particular use to double amputees, the arm is controlled (somehow) by synapses. In other words, by your thoughts.
Personally, I think the idea of being able to replace defective or damaged body parts is awesome. .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Cyborgs, Medical Science, Segway, Thought Controlled TechnologyAnswer a Phone Survey – Get Cheated
I've always debated things like helping jaywalkers, buying magazines at the door, and listening to telemarketers, but I think that I've finally come up with a common solution. Don't pick up anyone on the side of the road. Don't buy anything at your doorstep that doesn't involve cash and girl-scout cookies. And definitely, never, ever, talk to someone .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Scams - Ripoffs - Dirty Tricks, Telephone SurveysAirport Worker Nude Scanned Co-Worker, Commented on Her “Attributes”
Privacy groups like The Electronic Privacy Information Center - EPIC have been warning us about these things for a long time and it seems like as much as the TSA would want us to believe otherwise, we were justified in raising the alarm.
In this case a male worker at Heathrow flipped the machine on as an attractive female .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Data Brokering, TSA, Whole Body ImagingStory of Gaming Addiction
This is a heartbreaking account of someone's battle with gaming addiction. Posted here so I can look it up later.
This pretty much sums it up.
"I hated level 40," she said with a sigh. It was the first time we'd spoken in eight years, and she had never forgotten the night I spurned her .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]