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Submission + - TSA agent tells 15 year-old girl: "Cover Up!"

Submitted by AdamnSelene on Monday June 17, 2013 @03:22PM

AdamnSelene writes: The daughter of Mark Frauenfelder, a founder of the website Boing Boing, was 'shamed' and 'humiliated' by a LAX Transportation Security Agency (TSA) officer who told her to 'cover up'. Frauenfelder detailed the story of his daughter’s experience with the TSA yesterday evening. The TSA is investigating the incident.

There is additional commentary on women's rights activist Maureen Herman's blog.

And we thought the TSA agents and scanning machines were there to grope and ogle fliers...

Submission + - Google never deleted street view data (businessweek.com)

Submitted by AdamnSelene on Friday July 27, 2012 @08:58PM

AdamnSelene writes: After being caught spying on people across Europe and Australia with its Wi-Fi-slurping Street View cars, Google had told angry regulators that it would delete the ill-gotten data. Google broke its promise.

Submission + - WSJ: Patent troll trend "starting to accelerate" (wsj.com)

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AdamnSelene

on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @12:06PM

AdamnSelene writes: "The Wall Street Journal has an article profiling why partners in top patent law firms are leaving to start their own 'Non-Practicing Entities' (aka Patent Trolls). Apparently corporations are now approaching lawyers to sell of their patent portfolio in order to squeeze cash from their IP without the embarrassment of suing their own customers. One lawyer says that 'As patents develop from a nascent to a mature asset class, you're just going to see a whole different set of players enter this game. The curve is just starting to accelerate.'"

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