Four ways your privacy is being invaded

Americans' personal privacy is being crushed by the rise of a four-headed corporate-state surveillance system. The four "heads" are: federal government agencies; state and local law enforcement entities; telecoms, web sites & Internet "apps" companies; and private data aggregators (sometimes referred to as commercial data warehouses).

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This spying bill is against privacy and democracy. And it won't work

guardian.co.uk · clipped by Mark Carrigan

A nice coincidence last Tuesday. As the joint select committee of peers and MPs met to hear evidence on the draft Communications Data Bill, which will give police and intelligence services the power to access all your email data and internet connections, the hacking group AntiSec published a sample of 12 million unique Apple device identifiers.

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Here's how to check if your Apple device UDID has been compromised by the AntiSec leak

thenextweb.com · clipped by Mark Carrigan

If you're worried that you might own one of the 1 million Apple devices that have had their UDIDs leaked by AntiSec , reportedly from a breach of an FBI agent's laptop, our rockstar tech team has put together a tool to help you check.

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Selling You on Facebook

online.wsj.com · clipped by Mark Carrigan

Not so long ago, there was a familiar product called software. It was sold in stores, in shrink-wrapped boxes. When you bought it, all that you gave away was your credit card number or a stack of bills. Now there are "apps"-stylish, discrete chunks of software that live online or in your smartphone.

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FBI Secret Letters Face Rare Challenge

online.wsj.com · clipped by Mark Carrigan

Early last year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation sent a secret letter to a phone company demanding that it turn over customer records for an investigation. The phone company then did something almost unheard of: It fought the letter in court. The U.S. Department of Justice fired back with a serious accusation.

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Jonathan Franzen On Privacy | Jonathan Franzen | Big Think

bigthink.com · clipped by Mark Carrigan

Jonathan Franzen: I was not worried about a loss of privacy, I was worried about a loss of a public space where people's private lives weren't always being shoved in your face. And technology has made that a lot worse as far as I can tell.

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American Notes: Imperial Bedroom

newyorker.com · clipped by Mark Carrigan

ABSTRACT: american notes about privacy in America.... Describes the current panic over privacy and the Internet... Writer quotes Thomas Nagel and Wendy Kaminer on Lewinskygate and mentions the national outcry over the "clipper chip" and a plan by Lotus to market a CD-rom containing financial profiles of nearly half the people in the country...

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Data Storage Could Expand Reach of Surveillance

thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com · clipped by Mark Carrigan

A wave of worry about a software program called TrapWire, designed to detect terrorists casing possible targets, appears to be unjustified, as I wrote in Tuesday's Times. Based on stolen corporate e-mails posted by WikiLeaks, some reports hugely exaggerated the program's sweep and capabilities; the New York Police Department, for instance, says that contrary to claims on the Web, it has never used TrapWire.

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How Privacy in America Went Virtually Extinct in Just a Decade

alternet.org · clipped by Mark Carrigan

Unless we challenge the idea that we should concede our rights to protect our safety, it'll get even worse.

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