Privacy Stories for 2007

Australian Government To Mandate Internet Filters 305
How To Lose Your Job, Thanks To The Internet 654
Data Theft Soars to Unprecedented Levels 116
American Security Firms Collaborate on Chinese Olympics 68
Arguing For Open Electronic Health Records 111
Ohio's Alternative to Diebold Machines May Be Equally Bad 174
Adobe Quietly Monitoring Software Use? 304
Connecticut Governor Seeks to Protect Personal Data Online 59
Capitol Hill Quiet On Tech 110
Google Reader Begins Sharing Private Data 313
British Drivers Destroying Surveillance Cameras 259
Should Apple Give Back Replaced Disks? 446
Deluge Anonymizing Browser Now Includes Bittorrent 158
FBI Prepares Vast Database of Biometrics 152
IRS Data Security Still a Concern 54
People Were More Likely To Google Themselves This Year 160
Tiny, Morphing, Electricity-Stealing Spy Planes Developed 163
Businesses Generally Ignoring E-Discovery Rules 109
A Law to Spy Back on Government Surveillance Cameras? 229
Linux-Based Phone System Phones Home 164
DoubleClick Goes MIA At FTC Chief's Old Law Firm 39
More Details Emerge On Domestic Spying Programs 282
Beamed Sonic Advertising Is Coming 396
Eat, Drink, and be Monitored 106
Can Blockbuster be Sued Over Facebook/Beacon? 102
Microsoft Giving Away Vista Ultimate, With a Catch 495
ISP Inserting Content Into Users' Webpages 396
Will Privacy Sell? 82
Online Sex Offender Database Leads To Murder? 1001
NYT Editorial Slams ISPs Over Online Freedom 127
IT Pro Admits Stealing 8.4M Consumer Records 108
Facebook Caves To Privacy Protests Over Beacon 95
NJ Blogger Fights for Anonymous Free Speech 406
All US Border Crossings Now Require A 'Terrorist Risk Profile' 710
Questionable Data Mining Concerns IRC Community 306
How Best Buy Tried To Whip The Geek Squad Into Shape 476
AOL, Netflix and the End of Open Research 85
Google's Gdrive Raises Instant Privacy Concerns 197
NASA Requires JPL Scientists To Give Up Right To Privacy 446
Court Orders White House to Disclose Telecom Ties 147
EFF Releases Software to Spot Net NonNeutrality 73
Anonymity of Netflix Prize Dataset Broken 164
Houston Police Test Unmanned Surveillance Aircraft 236
Feds Have Access To Cellphone Tracking On Request 140
MPAA College Toolkit Raises Privacy, Security Concerns 188
Illegal Downloaders to be Blocked By French Government? 149
Skype Encryption Stumps German Police 289
UK Government Loses 15 Million Private Records 339
Is Apple Tracking iPhone Users Through IMEI? 218
Losing Personal Info On A Laptop Could Get You Charged 199
Japan to Start Fingerprinting Foreign Travelers 520
Mixed News on Wiretapping from 9th Circuit US Court 93
Hushmail Passing PGP Keys to the US Government 303
Fighting Back Against Ghost Calls 297
White House Ordered to Preserve All Email 259
RCMP Won't Go After Personal Filesharers 405
US Official Urges Americans To Reconsider Privacy 515
Tracking People Using Bluetooth 65
Lawmakers Delay Telco Immunity Vote 102
Germany Implements Sweeping Data Retention Policies 210
Ex AT&T Tech Says NSA Monitors All Web Traffic 566
The New Facebook Ads - Another Privacy Debacle? 201
FBI May Have Datamined Grocery Stores With Help From Credit Companies 442
EFF Documentation Victory in Telco Spying Case 89
FTC Announces Crackdown on Do Not Call Violators 162
EU Wants Air Passenger Data Collected 151
Students In UK Tracked With RFID Chips 214
REAL ID In Its Death Throes, Says ACLU 315
The Implications of a Facebook Society 226
US Consumers Clueless About Online Tracking 228
US Wants Courts to OK Warrantless Email Snooping 476
First RIAA Case Victim Finally Speaks Out 204
Cross-Selling Online Scams and Security Issues 101
ICANN Punts on WHOIS Privacy Proposal 90
U.of Oregon Says No to RIAA 241
Germany Seeks Expansion of Computer Spying 177
Privacy Groups Mull 'Do Not Track' List for Internet 136
Privacy Advocates Bemoan the Problems With WHOIS 174
AT&T Invents Surveillance Programming Language 119
GPS Used As Defence In Radar Speeding Case 464
US Democrats Accidentally Publish Whistleblowers' Email Addresses 352
Technology as Tattletale 69
eBay's Lobbying Efforts May Include the CIA 38
Terror Watch List Swells to More Than 755,000 512
Jaiku Bought By Google, Some Fear Privacy Issues 85
Hellgate Beta's In-Game Ads Raise Eyebrows 424
EFF Interviewed About Their Case Against AT&T 78
New England Patriots Obtain Online Ticket Reseller Names 233
Senator Slaps Down FISA Telecom Immunity 206
Bill Introduced to Congress Would Allow ID Theft Restitution 166
Phone Companies Refuse to Give Congress Data on Spy Program 279
Inside Comcast's Surveillance Policies 134
Governator Kills Data Protection Law 177
Verizon Wireless Opt-Out Plan For Customer Records 216
How the U.S. Became Switchboard to the World 256
Qwest Punished by NSA for Non-Cooperation 170
Dragonfly-Sized Insect Spies Spotted, Denied 433
Stalling Cars Via OnStar 737
Interpol Unscrambles Doctored Photo In Manhunt 370
Microsoft's Ballmer: Google Reads Your Mail 264
FCC Declines To Probe Disclosure of Phone Records 97
Designing Software With Privacy in Mind 77
Retailers Fighting To No Longer Store Credit Data 136
German Court Rules That Websites Can't Retain Logged IPs 176
UK Government Can Demand You Hand Over Encryption Keys 426
LA Airport Uses Random Numbers To Catch Terrorists 321
Google May Blur Canadian Faces and License Plates 232
Hospital Wants Critical Blogger's Anonymity Ended 181
Satellite Images Used to Monitor Burmese Junta 231
Sony Developing Gigapixel Satellite Imaging 101
Chicago Developing 'Suspicious Behavior' Monitoring System 294
Parts of the Patriot Act Ruled Unconstitutional 414
Firefox 3 Antiphishing Sends Your URLs To Google 296
WordPress 2.3 Does Not Spy On Users [UPDATED] 229
FBI Boosts Servers For Faster Criminal Searches 90
Telecom Companies Seek Retroactive Immunity 177
NSA Tasked With 'Policing' Government Networks 93
Study Says DRM Violates Canadian Privacy Laws 62
Do Not Call Listings to Expire in 2008 247
Cory Doctorow's Fiction About An Evil Google 182
10,000 Cameras Ineffective At Deterring Crime 414
U.S. Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read 484
Big Brother Really Is Watching Us All 405
Stealthy Windows Update Raises Serious Concerns 362
Google Calls for International Privacy Standards 75
Ameritrade Security Audit Finds Privacy-Busting Back Door 111
Microsoft Sued by a Beijing Student Over 'Privacy Violation' 157
Eavesdropping Didn't Help Uncover Terrorist Plot 290
Tor Used To Collect Embassy Email Passwords 99
Eavesdropping Helpful Against Terrorist Plot [UPDATED] 486
Microsoft's Consent-or-Die Patent 179
Mandatory Keyloggers in Mumbai's Cyber Cafes 240
Police Busted When Tracking Device Found On Car 367
Implanted RFID Chips Linked To Cancer 247
DHS Ends Data-Mining Program 75
Judge Says, Record DNA of Everyone In the UK 403
Rick Rubin Discloses Sony Rootkit Called Home 249
Germany Plans To Email Trojans 166
Entering Passwords Through Eye Movement 73
Australian ISPs Reject Calls To Police Their Users 86
NASA Employees Fight Invasive Background Check 354
DOJ Still Looks To Have Suit Against Verizon Tossed 79
FBI's Unknown Eavesdropping Network 362
Beijing Police To Launch Animated Web Patrols 228
Bugging Catches Up To SIP Phones 70
Skype Linux Reads Password and Firefox Profile 335
New York Taxi Drivers To Strike Over GPS 293
IP Holders Press For Access To WHOIS Data 103
Chinese Bloggers Encouraged to Register Contact Info 95
Secrecy of Voting Machines Ballots At Risk 256
DARPA Files Patent On Predictive Simulation 150
US Shuts Down Controversial Anti-Terror Database 238
158 Million Records Exposed (And Counting) 106
Going to Yosemite? Get Your Passport Ready! 969
TSA's "Behavior Detection Officers" 281
DHS To Share Spy Satellite Data Over the US 161
Manhattan 1984 545
China To Deploy World's Largest People Tracking Network 368
Police Data-Mining Done Right 321
Pay-For-Visit Advertising 176
Privacy Winning Search Engine War 92
FBI Raids Home of Suspected NSA Leaker 608
MSN Censors Your IM 287
House Approves Warrantless Wiretapping Extension 342
Surveillance Camera Network Coming To New York? 185
What We Know About the FBI's CIPAV Spyware 207
RIAA Backtracks After Embarrassing P2P Defendant 255
Letter Casts Doubt On Yahoo China Testimony 59
Comment Deadline For NYC Photography Permits 238
ACLU Protests Police Scanning License Plates 821
Encrypted USB Key With TOR, Firefox 170
Merely Cloaking Data May Be Incriminating? 418
University of Kansas Will Not Forward RIAA Letters 126
Intern Loses 800,000 Social Security Numbers 492
Deep Packet Inspection and Net Neutrality 334
Search Sites Unveil Privacy Plans 34
High-Tech Squirrels Trained to Conduct Espionage 269
Potentially Huge Legal Boost for EU File Traders 98
Web-based Anonymizer Discontinued 159
Police Given Access to Congestion-Charge Cameras 293
FBI Remotely Installs Spyware to Trace Bomb Threat 325
Will Security Firms Detect Police Spyware? 269
Vista Makes Forensic PC Exam Easier for Lawyers 343
Privacy is a Biological Imperative? 181
FBI Employees Face Criminal Probe Over Patriot Act 217
Latest Revelations on the FBI's Data Mining of America 446
Privacy and the "Nothing To Hide" Argument 728
New York Plans Surveillance Veil For Downtown 529
Court Upholds Warrantless Internet Snooping 173
NH Signs Bill That Rejects Federal Real ID 231
DOJ Accidentally Gives Lawyer Wiretap Transcript 319
Consumerist Catches Geek Squad Stealing Porn 686
Court Orders Dismissal of US Wiretapping Lawsuit 362
Credit Industry Opposes Anti-ID Theft Method 434
Newly Declassified Window Film Keeps Out Snoops 193
Vista is Watching You 458
Permit May Be Required For Public Photography in NYC 301
New Zealand Banks Demand a Peek at User PCs 268
The Internet Of Things 134
CallerID Spoofing to be Made Illegal 351
National ID May Have Killed Immigration Bill 481
Cyberbullying Gains Momentum in US 241
Privatunes Anonymizes iTunes Plus 176
University of Washington Will Aid RIAA 406
US Expands Airport Biometric Data Collection 231
CA Bill Limits Skin Implantation of RFID Chips 275
Underfunded NSA Suffers Brownouts 198
Subpoenas Issued Over NSA Warrantless Wiretapping 260
EU Privacy Directive — Coming To the US? 180
Expectation of Privacy Extended to Email 161
Internet Defamation Suit Tests Online Anonymity 249
Judge Orders FBI to Release Abuse Records 56
Congress Considers Forcing Travel Registration 321
Identity Thief Apprehended By Victim 636
Judge Orders TorrentSpy to Turn Over RAM 726
FBI Finds It Overstepped Bounds in Collecting Data 107
Google Street View Could Be Unlawful In Europe 248
Virginia Tech Report Cites Privacy Law Problems 381
Google Privacy Quickies 76
More States Rebel Against Real ID Act 295
Which ISPs Are Spying On You? 160
Privacy Group Gives Google Lowest Possible Grade 260
White House Derails Attempts to End Illegal Wiretapping 647
Online Shoppers are Willing to Pay More for Privacy 106
How Private Are Sites' Membership Lists? 265
Concerns Over Microsoft's Internet User Profiling 144
British Civil Liberties Film Released 282
The Private Outsourcing of US Intelligence Services 256
Photo Tagging as a Privacy Problem? 143
Google Street View Raises Privacy Concerns 520
New Anti-Forensics Tools Thwart Police 528
The IT Department as Corporate Snoop? 116
Apple Hides Account Info in DRM-Free Music 669
Who's Trading Your E-mail Addresses? 355
MySpace Age Verification - for Parents 391
EU Questions Google Privacy Policy 168
Using RFID and Wi-Fi to Track Students 183
OpenDNS Says Google-Dell Browser Tool is Spyware 188
British Traffic Wardens Issued CCTV Head Cameras 410
FBI Target Puts His Life Online 324
Site Claims to Reveal 'Tattle-tales' 565
Spy Drones Take to the Sky in the UK 529
Driver's License to be the Next Debit Card 394
Why Web Pirates Can't Be Touched 402
How Far Should a Job Screening Go? 675
The Shape of the Future 179
Monday is Wiretap the Internet Day 264
Bill Bans NSA Eavesdropping 424
NY Times To Data-Mine Its Visitors 98
Harvard Prof Says Computers Need to Forget 341

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