privacy issues

Private Moment Made Public, Then a Fatal Jump What these kids did was really, really ****ty. Too bad he jumped though. Only 18 and this wound would have healed if he could have just held out for a while.

I saw today in my doctors office (I had an appointment) a magazine which I read. The magazine was called "Discover Magazine", it was the July/August 2010 issue. On pages 40-43, it discussed a method of using something called a power-law which was used in particle physics to predict trends...

Full Body-Scanners Coming to a City Near You URLs: http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/08/27/full-body-scanners-coming-to-a-city-street-near-you/ http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/08/24/full-body-scan-technology-deployed-in-street-roving-vans/ So, basically to summarize (you...

URL: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7019717896 What's your opinions, isn't this absolutely absurd?

The eleven million pound gorilla of online gaming has made headlines in the real world again. The virtual juggernaut previously made the news for various quirks like the accidental simulation of a plague outbreak that caught real world researchers attention, the prank ruining of a simulated...

Andrew Breitbart has 100,000 dollars and a pledge of confidentiality for the full JournoList archive. If anyone here is on that list and would enjoy the irony of a tea party bigwig paying for their porsche, here's your chance.

Obama Supports DNA Sampling Upon Arrest Looks like GATTACA territory. I think it would be awesome to see technology used that way. But that's only because I like technology. On the ethical side it's wrong to go around collecting DNA from people who didn't commit crimes.

Source. It really does seem like Google cares:

I've been thinking a lot about Facebook and potential privacy issues with it. It seems that they keep every piece of information you ever enter and don't delete it from their servers even if you delete your account. Also, there are employers who do Facebook searches before they hire people for...

article A genuine WTF?!? moment. I haven't read the attached PDF with all the legalese in it, but assuming the kid wasn't using the school laptop to surf porn or something (in which case, why need a picture?) I have to wonder what the hell the school was thinking. It would have saved time to...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35231454/ns/technology_and_science-washington_post/ I guess I'm curious to know if anyone who uses Gmail feels as though it's likely their privacy will be violated as a result of this agreement. Or are you comfortable with NSA partnering with Google to better...

Here's a bit of a different twist on email security, and I'm asking if anyone is familiar with a program to do what I want it to do. I have a friend of mine that does taxes and wants to send tax drafts out to his clients, but wants them to be secure. I am familiar with digital signed messages...

I know this isn't a new concern, but the potential does seem to grow pretty rapidly: take the launch of the new google phone....google will potentially know your internet browsing habits, your text messages, your emails, your call durations and destinations and your GPS tracked location.... is...

Full body scans reveal so much that its illegal to scan a child in the UK and the USA. So what do we do now? Do we wait until some terrorist plants a bomb on some poor child and then change the law after several people die?

Look at what we're seeing in Iran. It is a very repressive country, yet people on the street with nothing more than a cell phone can change the course of events by recording the government atrocities. They can mail them via satellite to news stations. Look at the Rodney King affair. Riots...

Am I right to find this sort of thing worrying? The intentions and possibilities are so opaque to my limited knowledge in this area, that I find myself wondering if I join the ranks of the electrosensitives and conspiracy theorists when I feel that it's wrong for the government to do this...

http://www.gazette.com/articles/census_39696___article.html/office_bureau.html My first reaction to this was "Oh no, hell no, you don't!" I'm not even sure why I react that way, really. A bunch of nebulous stuff about intrusion, privacy, government strong-arming the populace.... I'm fairly...

Thoughts? http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2930944

This seems like a pretty big story in terms of Internet privacy...... and also highlights just how much data Google has on every user. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7488009.stm It also raises questions over what Viacom are allowed to do with the data, which I suppose would be quite...

This may be more of a social issues question, but I'll start here. I work for a large company with a correspondingly large budget. I get email all the time from companies wanting our money. Most of the time I either ignore them or pass them on to someone else to evaluate. I recently got a...

Recently there was a tragedy in the shootings at Northern Illinois University. It comes very close to myself. The week before my wife and I had talked to the sister of the shooter (my wife and she went to grad schools together). The sister was out of town when the story hit the media and for...

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9848732-7.html?tag=nefd.top ^ Wurr. (I also found this related picture: http://www.clevelandleader.com/files/realidcard.jpg ) I'm wondering what they're thinking, because uh. this doesn't seem at all safe.

Should also go down in the Supreme Court... http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070706/D8Q798880.html

Link Huh? :confused: So if I reveal deeply personal information about you and your family to the press, it's respecting your privacy as long as I remain anonymous? Maybe someone should publish the name, address, and phone number of the person who gave the Tribune the story. Anonymously, of...

My health insurance comes from my husband's emloyer, which happens to be a Progressively run County Government. They have a sliding scale based on your participation with a "health program". They contract an outside company that gives you a health evaluation. They don't just ask for the...

It seems they have not really stopped breaking the FISA law, but instead got one of the judges to write some sort of blanket warrant. Whether that's true or not, they are now, as predicted, claiming that the case is moot. Just more of the same pattern. If they were not really violating FISA...

http://www.license.shorturl.com/ Check your drivers license... Now you can see anyone's Driver's License on the Internet, including your own! I just searched for mine and there it was...picture and all! Thanks Homeland Security! I definitely removed mine, I suggest you all do the same...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070105/ap_on_go_pr_wh/opening_the_mail I have to agree with the flaming liberals here: if it's not a new thing, and adds no new powers, and the mail is still protected as much as it's always been, why was it added? And why the hell are "signing statements" allowed?

http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060214-053955-9494r

What next, Conservatives? Now your president wants to know what YOU have been Googling on the internet: http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1691273,00.html My God, what does it take for some of you to even start objecting to any of this stuff?