February 2012
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Your smartphone could be the next target of...
Using a cheap handset and easily available open-source software, someone could monitor your cell phone’s location or even block it from receiving calls without you knowing about it, according to the University of Minnesota’s College of Science and Engineering.
The hacking collective Anonymous proved recently that their list of victims would not be limited to simple websites and databases. It...
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Deleted your Internet dating profile? Your...
Signing up for an online dating site isn’t always our proudest moment. But many of us have full-time schedules, and meeting people isn’t easy. So the lonely among us try out Zoosk, eHarmony, OkCupid, or one of the many other popular online dating sites. Unfortunately, many such sites are less-than-transparent about what’s happening to your personal data, even after you’ve...
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Target Corporation's obsessive collection of...
When a Minnesota-area man received coupons for baby products from the Target Corporation addressed to his teenage daughter, he was outraged. My daughter is in high school, he complained to a Target store manager. Why are you sending her this stuff? Turns out she was, in fact, pregnant, but he hadn’t been told about it.
What the daughter presumably did not know was that Target collects...
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Helpful infographic explains the nuts and bolts of...
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Stanford grad continues fight for removal from...
My story today on the nation’s terrorist no-fly list …
The federal appeals court ruling last week on gay marriage in California overshadowed other potentially big news in the legal community. A quieter decision Wednesday by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has enabled Stanford University Ph.D. graduate Rahinah Ibrahim to clear another hurdle in her now years-long battle over...
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“We used to joke that the air crew of the future would be one pilot and one dog....”
– FAA expert on the future use of pilotless drones quoted by journalist Shane Harris in his recent insightful report for the Hoover Institution.