Privacy Stories for 2008

Sex Offenders Must Hand Over Online Passwords 630
Oregon Governor Proposes Vehicle Mileage Tax 713
Matt Blaze Examines Communications Privacy 44
Thai Premier Spams Nation, Prompts Consumer Outcry 81
DHS To Grab Biometric Data From Green Card Holders 248
NSA's History of Communications Security — For Your Eyes, Too 52
Using Speed Cameras To Send Tickets To Your Enemies 898
Study Finds Hundreds of Stolen Data Dumps 58
Yahoo Promises To Anonymize and Limit User Data 76
Data Breach Notices Show Tip of the Iceberg 50
In Japan, a Billboard That Watches You 133
Wiretap Whistleblower, a Life in Limbo? 521
McCain Campaign Sells Info-Loaded Blackberry PDAs 165
Sony Hit With $1M Penalty For COPPA Violations 85
Esther Dyson Grudgingly Defends Internet Anonymity 516
UK Cops Want "Breathalyzers" For PCs 545
Maryland Court Weighs Internet Anonymity 409
Indiana Bans Driver's License Smiles, For Security 459
NSA Is Building a New Datacenter In San Antonio 119
Human Rights Court Calls UK DNA Database a 'Breach of Rights' 206
Replacing Metal Detectors With Brain Scans 327
European Police Plan to Remote-Search Hard Drives 260
Bush Demands Amnesty for Spying Telecoms 420
"Reality Mining" Resets the Privacy Debate 209
Sending Secret Messages Via Google's SearchWiki 160
Searching DNA For Relatives Raises Concerns 199
Verizon Employees Fired For Snooping Obama's Record 344
BT Silences Customers Over Phorm 196
Obama's Mobile Phone Records Compromised, Shared 278
Digital Photos Give Away a Camera's Make and Model 260
Feds Can Locate Cell Phones Without Telcos 199
Real Name For Open Source Development? 262
The Shady Business Practices of Classmates.com 275
Google Can Predict the Flu 289
EU Council Refuses To Release ACTA Documents 145
U-Turn On UK ID Cards 143
Irish GSM Providers Asked to Track Users' Web Use 102
UK Outlines Plan For Internet Black Boxes 419
Concerns About ACTA In EU, Canada 75
A Linux-Based "Breath Test" For Porn On PCs 345
Privacy Concerns Over Google On the Rise In Germany 63
Anonymous Anger Rampant On the Web 399
Judge Orders White House To Produce Wiretap Memos 178
Google May Scrap Yahoo Deal 49
Duplicating Your Housekeys, From a Distance 287
Tech Giants In Human Rights Deal 97
Kazaa Founder Wants Us To Find "Legitimate" Files 75
Gov't Computers Used to Find Info on "Joe the Plumber" 793
ACLU Creates Map of US "Constitution-Free Zone" 979
Researchers Find Problems With RFID Passport Cards 172
Handling Caller ID Spoofing? 556
Scientists To Post Individuals' DNA Sequences To Web 219
Interpol Pushing World Facial Recognition Database 171
DARPA Contract Hints At Real-Time Video Spying 73
Passport Required To Buy Mobile Phones In the UK 388
EFF Sues To Overturn Telecom Immunity 369
New State Laws Could Make Encryption Widespread 155
China To Photograph All Internet Cafe Customers 223
Tool To Allow ISPs To Scan Every File You Transmit 370
Every Email In UK To Be Monitored 785
Sex Offender E-Mail Registry Signed Into Law 459
Flash Cookies, a Little-Known Privacy Threat 225
Court Rules That Palin Must Save Yahoo Emails 412
Huge Credit Fraud Ring Sends Europeans' Data To Pakistan 166
UK Government Says More Spying Needed 297
Verizon Exposes the Wrong 1,200 Email Addresses 94
20 Hours a Month Reading Privacy Policies 161
NSA Whistleblowers Reveal Extent of Eavesdropping 222
Tips For Taking Your Laptop Into and Out of the US? 940
Homeland Security's Space-Based Spying Goes Live 289
Maryland Police Put Activists' Names On Terror List 426
Firefox Add-On To Track Your Location Via Wi-Fi 181
New Bill To Rein In DHS Laptop Seizures 311
Give Up the Fight For Personal Privacy? 751
Will ParanoidLinux Protect the Truly Paranoid? 236
Hackers Clone Elvis' Passport 164
Australia Mulling a Nationwide Vehicle-Tracking System 176
Positive Rights News From Europe 86
AT&T, Verizon To Require Opt-In For User Tracking 59
UK Gov't To Require ID Cards For Some Foreign Residents 216
State of Kentucky Seizes Control of 141 Domain Names 505
Google Chrome Spinoff 'Iron' For Privacy Fanatics 165
Homeland Security Department Testing "Pre-Crime" Detector 580
Nevada Businesses Must Start Encrypting E-Mail By Oct. 1st 178
Palin Email Hacker Found 767
10 Percent of Colleges Check Applicants' Social Profiles 398
EFF Sues NSA, President Bush, and VP Cheney 267
"Anonymous" Hacks Palin's Private Email 1733
Bavarian Police Seeking Skype Trojan Informant 252
New York Issues RFID-Encoded Drivers Licenses 288
National Car Tracking System Proposed For US 563
Bill To Add Accountability To Border Laptop Search 495
Microsoft Says IE8 Phoning Home Is "Pretty Innocuous" 194
Questioning Google's Privacy Reform 134
China Wants UN To Help Trace Sources On Internet 303
iPhone Takes Screenshots of Everything You Do 225
DOJ Needs Warrant To Track Your Cell's GPS History 122
Locate Any WiFi Router By Its MAC Address 204
Et Tu, Mozilla? Firefox 3 To Get Privacy Mode 326
One In Five Employers Scan Applicants' Web Lives 566
Online Storage With a Twist 268
Google Will Anonymize IP Logs Faster 97
Speculation On Large-Scale Phone Location Snooping 234
Identifying a Culprit In a Bloodbath 47
A Setback for ISP Web Tracking 32
UK ISPs To Hand Over Thousands of File Sharers' Data 180
Shadow Analysis Could Spot Terrorists 245
The Electronic Bastille 267
Writing Privacy Policies – Lessons From Indymedia 10
Adam Savage Revises Claim of Lawyer-Bullying On RFID Show 301
Privacy Policies Are Great — For PhDs 161
Picasa Rolls Out 3.0 — Now With Facial Recognition 243
Reading Google Chrome's Fine Print 607
Councils Recruit Unpaid Volunteers To Spy On Their Neighbors 521
Mathematical Modeling Used To Track and Label 83
Newark and the Future of Crime Fighting 172
In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors 961
FBI ISP Letters May Have Violated Free Speech 117
Hashing Email Addresses For Web Considered Harmful 155
State Cannot Force Removal of SSNs From Privacy Advocate's Site 262
Wikileaks To Sell Hugo Chavez' Email 313
Computer With UK Bank Customer Data Sold On eBay 184
IE8 Will Contain an Accidental Ad Blocker 437
Websites Still Failing Basic Privacy Practices 205
Best Western Loses Details On 8 Million Customers 180
As of October, FBI To Allow Warrantless Investigations 574
Wealthy Mexicans Getting Chipped in Case of Abduction 306
SciAm On the Future of Privacy 18
UK Gov't Lost Personal Data On 4M People In One Year 163
Canadian Privacy Czar Wants To Anonymize Court Records On the Web 340
A Good Reason To Go Full-Time SSL For Gmail 530
McCain Releases Technology Platform 479
Police Secretly Planting GPS Devices On Cars 609
UK Gov't Proposes Massive Internet Snooping, Data Storage 342
Google Using DoubleClick Tracking Cookies 175
Google's Streetview Seen As Culturally Insensitive In Japan 524
EFF Warns That Email Privacy Is In Jeopardy 152
Last HOPE Tracking Meta-Data Released 27
Fingerprint Test Tells Much More Than Identity 166
IT Repair Installs Webcam Spying Software 606
Chipped Passport Cloned In Minutes 326
"Clear" Laptop Found, In the Same Locked Office 264
Your Medical Treatment History Is For Sale 607
"Clear" Air-Travel Pass Data Stolen From SFO 379
Craigslist Prankster Sued, Argues DMCA Abuse 478
FISA and Border Searches of Laptops 421
Free Tools To Evade China's Web Censorship 140
FBI Seizes Library Computers Without Warrant 483
Israel Moves Toward a National Biometric Database 476
Where To Draw the Line When Punishing Email Snooping? 124
Is Hushmail Still Safe? 264
"Mobile Plate Hunter" Cameras Raise Questions 580
DHS Allowed To Take Laptops Indefinitely 1123
Face-Swapping Software To Protect Privacy 85
Yale Students' Lawsuit Unmasks Anonymous Trolls 668
Google Says Complete Privacy Does Not Exist 543
Foreign-owned Hotels To Install Firewall In China 114
Video Surveillance Tech Detects Abnormal Activity 189
Medical Health Disclosure vs. Steve Jobs' Privacy 362
Reasonable Expectation of Privacy From Web Hosts? 287
Google Caught On Private Property 668
FSF's "Defective By Design" Targets Apple Genius Bars 838
ISP Embarq Monitors User Traffic 106
UK Facebook User's Name Appropriation Draws Huge Libel Suit 165
Online Colleges Could Spy On Students – By Law 307
Researchers Face Jail Risk For Tor Snooping Study 121
Police Director Sues AOL For Critical Blogger's Name 282
E-gold Owners Plead Guilty To Money Laundering 469
It's Not Just O2 Leaking MMS Messages 105
Encrypting Google Calendar With Firefox Extensions 52
FBI Fights Testing For False DNA Matches 411
A Look At ACTA Wish Lists For RIAA, BSA, Others 69
Schneier, UW Team Show Flaw In TrueCrypt Deniability 225
Logged In or Out, Facebook Is Watching You 336
Gmail Reveals the Names of All Users 438
Open Security Foundation To Maintain DataLossDB 34
Google Wins Agreement To Anonymize YouTube Logs 242
ACLU Files Lawsuit Challenging FISA 542
Viacom Vs. YouTube, Beyond Privacy 197
Court Refuses To Rule On ECPA Warrantless E-mail Searches 122
Do Not Call Registry Gets Glowing Reviews 276
The Pirate Bay's Plans To Encrypt the 'Net 297
Obama Losing Voters Over FISA Support 1489
Follow-up On Texas PI Law For PC Techs 233
Senate Passes Telecom Immunity Bill 1088
Sweden's Snoop Law Targets Russia 186
Senate Scrutinizes Privacy Issues of ISP User Tracking 109
Telecom Immunity Bill Hides Spying Provisions 202
Telecom Amnesty Opponents Back New Amendment 250
German Survey Company Loses 41,000 Survey Records 122
Congress Tries To Strip Power From Anti-Wiretap Judge 332
US Justice Dept. Sued For Cellular Tracking Information 75
Finding Fault With Google's Privacy Policy 155
Bavarian Police Can Legally Place Trojans On PCs 256
The Privacy Paradox 146
Privacy Policies Only as Good as the People Enforcing Them 104
No-Fail Identity Theft – Live and In Person 214
Telecom Amnesty Foes On the Move 363
FBI Illegally Tapped Phone Phreaks In 1969 296
FBI's New Eye Scan Database Raising Eyebrows 229
RMS and Clipperz Promoting Freedom In the Cloud 156
Brightnets are Owner Free File Systems 502
US To Get EU Private Citizen Data 290
Senate Delays Telecom Immunity Vote Until After July Recess 148
Charter's Trials of NebuAd Halted 97
Senate Hearing On Laptop Seizures At US Border 526
SSL Encryption Coming To The Pirate Bay 267
Sandvine CEO Says Internet Monitoring a Necessity 171
House Votes For Telco Immunity; Obama Will Support? 436
FISA Bill Vote Today, With Telco Immunity 465
Electronic Transaction Reporting Slipped Into Senate Bill 343
New FISA Bill Would Grant Telcoms Immunity; Vote Is Tomorrow 496
Safeguarding Data From Big Brother Sven? 345
Wiretapping Bill Passes Swedish Parliament, 143 to 138 326
Understanding Privacy 164
Wiretapping Law Sparks Rage In Sweden 344
User Not Found, Email Drops Silently 292
France's Citizens Expected to Help Build Internet Blacklist 213
Google Browser Sync To Be Discontinued 195
EFF To Fight Border Agent Laptop Searches 324
CIA Details Its Wikipedia-Like Tools For Analysts 164
TSA Bans Flight If You Refuse To Show ID 734
Virgin Media To Spy On & Threaten Downloaders 349
ID Theft In US Continues Apace Despite Data Breach Laws 117
Cell Phone Tracking Reveals Users' Habits 180
Full Body Scanners Installed In 10 US Airports 454
Google Health Open Platform Is Great — Or Awful 179
UK Local Councils Spy On Emails and Calls 61
Sweden On Verge of Passing Sweeping Wiretap Plan 234
Data Retention Proven to Change Citizen Behavior 261
McCain Supports Warrantless Domestic Surveillance 650
Canadian Group Files Facebook Privacy Complaint 128
An Imaginative Use For CCTVs 191
China's All-Seeing Eye 358
Full Disclosure and Why Vendors Hate It 91
Bank of NY Loses Tapes With 4.5 Million Clients' Data 156
RIM In Trouble For Not Violating Privacy 278
Olympic Tickets Contain Microchip With Your Data 254
Deutsche Telekom Secretly Tracked Phone Calls 83
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement 390
Canadian Domain Name Registrants To Get More Privacy 89
Senate Committee Votes To Fingerprint Lenders 146
IRS Pushes for New Reporting at Expense of Privacy 175
Delving Into Google Health's Privacy Concerns 121
LifeLock Spokesperson's Stolen ID Inspires Lawsuits 217
Verizon, Comcast Say They Are P2P Friendly 158
US Firms Read Employee E-mail On a Massive Scale 263
Total Phone and Email Database Proposed In UK 434
Google Assists In Arrest Of Indian Man 609
Shopping Centers Track Customers Via Cell Phone Signals 317

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