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Riley Dankovich

How the Government Is Tracking Your Movements | American Civil Liberties Union - 1 views

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    This article, though very clearly biased, describes the ways in which the movements of citizens are being tracked by both technology and the police. The video/information slides are obviously carried out with bias, but the information is still there. The end of the article has some interesting (helpful?) information about what the judicial system is ruling on cases involving location tracking without warrants.
Abbey Roberts

FCC: We Can't Force Google and Facebook to Stop Tracking You Online - NBC News - 1 views

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    The FCC decided Friday that it can't force Internet companies like Google, Facebook and ad providers from tracking users online.
nate_clause

You Are Being Tracked: How License Plate Readers Are Being Used to Record Americans' Mo... - 0 views

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    There are already in place many automatic license plate readers on things such as road signs and bridges. This has purposes for helping track vehicles known to be owned by criminals, but simultaneously the tracking information is stored for millions of innocent people as well.
lvanryzin

How Government Tracking Works (We Think) and What Average Citizens Can Do About It - 3 views

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    This article may be biased but it is still interesting. It implies that the government is using cell phones to track citizens in the same way bus passes were used in Little Brother.
nate_clause

The 5 biggest online privacy threats of 2013 | PCWorld - 6 views

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    This article opened my eyes to many things, such as how many cookies can be stored on your computer from not going to many websites, how easy it is to track ones location, and how Facebook could easily recognize you in real life. It discussed ways that information is gathered and stored about someone online that I hadn't even thought of before and was very eye-opening.
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    Facebook already knew you would feel that way about this news.
Derek Bruff

Colleges are spying on prospective students by quietly tracking them across the interne... - 0 views

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    Here's another angle on data mining and (prospective) college students...
j_olsen

Murder Suspect Has Witness - A MetroCard - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    This article details how MetroCard tracking is used in solving crimes, which is somewhat similar to the FastPass tracking in Little Brother.
j_olsen

Technology Turns to Tracking People Offline - 0 views

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    Some retailers use Euclid Analytics, which uses the Wi-Fi antennas inside stores to see how many people are coming into a store, how long they stay and even which aisles they walk. It does this by using signals from each smartphone that comes near the store.
Tyren Herbst-Ingram

Mafia boss undone by clumsy Caesar cipher - 0 views

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    Clues left in the clumsily encrypted notes of a Mafia don have helped Italian investigators to track his associates and ultimately contributed to his capture after years on the run. The recently busted Bernardo Provenzano, reputed to be the "boss of bosses" of the Sicilian Mafia, used a modified form of the Caesar cipher to obscure "sensitive information" in notes left to either his family or underlings.
mattgu123

Protesters Are Targets of Scrutiny Through Their Phones - 2 views

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    An app circulated among the protesters in Hong Kong that supposedly was for coordinating protest efforts, but was in reality a phishing attack that would track keystrokes, messages, and identity information of devices it was installed on. Many signs point to the Chinese government as the origin of the malware, though. Not the first time a government has done something like planting spies and monitoring protestors. We saw this in Little Brother too, with the DHS spies on the Xnet.
mariannas

Review: Blackphone Trades Some Convenience for Security - 1 views

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    This article is about a smartphone that's designed specifically to help you keep your personal information secure--it lets you easily encrypt your calls and texts and search the internet privately. There's also a video about ways to encrypt your email.
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    Nice find. I'm reminded of DuckDuckGo, https://duckduckgo.com/, the search engine that doesn't track you. At all.
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