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NHS patient data to be made available for sale to drug and insurance firms | Society | ... - 0 views
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"Drug and insurance companies will from later this year be able to buy information on patients - including mental health conditions and diseases such as cancer, as well as smoking and drinking habits - once a single English database of medical data has been created."
Russian Olympic official to reporters: stop complaining about hotels or we'll release C... - 0 views
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"Just a reminder for anyone thinking of travelling to Sochi after the Olympics for a spot of tourism: according to Russia's deputy prime-minister, the hotel bathrooms have surveillance cameras that watch you in the shower."
Turkey blocks use of Twitter after prime minister attacks social media site | World new... - 0 views
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"Turkey restricted access to Twitter hours after its prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, threatened to "root out" the social media network where wiretapped recordings have been leaked, damaging the government's reputation ahead of local elections."
Public apathy over GCHQ snooping is a recipe for disaster | Technology | The Observer - 0 views
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"Now spool forward to the present. One of the things that baffles me is why more people are not alarmed by what Edward Snowden has been telling us about the scale and intrusiveness of internet surveillance. My hunch is that this is partly because - strangely - people can't relate the revelations to things they personally understand."
Google's 'Pay Per Gaze' and the Future of Connected Advertising - 0 views
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"While Google has played down the notion of rolling out anything soon (it will take years until Glass builds up enough users to make it worthwhile), marketers can't stop buzzing about the possibility of paying for ads in the physical world based on user engagement and reactions. The patent even details how a device like Google Glass could infer a user's emotional response to an ad - whether they were happy, sad or indifferent - and adjust pricing accordingly."
Bomb threats made on Twitter to female journalists | Technology | theguardian.com - 0 views
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"Grace Dent, a columnist for the Independent and former Guardian writer, received the same message as Freeman, which she took a screen grab of. It states: "A BOMB HAS BEEN PLACED OUTSIDE YOUR HOME. IT WILL GO OFF AT EXACTLY 10.47PM ON A TIMER AND TRIGGER DESTROYING EVERYTHING.""
PIN-punching $200 robot can brute force every Android numeric screen-password in 19 hou... - 0 views
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Justin Engler and Paul Vines will demo a robot called the Robotic Reconfigurable Button Basher (R2B2) at Defcon; it can work its way through every numeric screen-lock Android password in 19 hours.
Edward Snowden's secure email provider Lavabit forced to close by US security services ... - 0 views
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"The secure email service used by US whistleblower Edward Snowden has shut down rather than comply with orders from US security services - and is also legally barred from speaking out. The owner and operator of Lavabit, Ladar Levison, took the service down yesterday "for maintenance" before revealing today that the real reason was demands from US intelligence."
Lavabit competitor Silent Circle shuts down its secure email service, destroys servers ... - 0 views
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"Silent Circle, a secure communications company founded by PGP creator Phil Zimmerman, has pre-emptively shut down its secure, encrypted email service and destroyed the servers so that it cannot be forced to reveal its customers' secrets to NSA spooks. "
Lavabit founder has stopped using email: "If you knew what I know, you might not use it... - 0 views
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"After discussing the general absurdity and creepiness of not being allowed to freely criticize the government for the order they brought to his company, he concludes by saying that he's stopped using email altogether, and "If you knew what I know about email, you might not use it either." "
Silent Circle on secure electronic communications: 'You may wish to avoid email altoget... - 0 views
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"As examples, Kowolowski noted that companies wanting to protect their intellectual property or individuals sending tax returns may be happy to use traditional PGP/SMIME technology to encrypt the body of their messages, but that "a freedom fighter working on an oppressive country" would be just as concerned about the metadata."
World's leading authors: state surveillance of personal data is theft | World news | Th... - 0 views
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"More than 500 of the world's leading authors, including five Nobel prize winners, have condemned the scale of state surveillance revealed by the whistleblower Edward Snowden and warned that spy agencies are undermining democracy and must be curbed by a new international charter."
Find the ungoogleable with crowdsourced search engine - tech - 04 December 2013 - New S... - 0 views
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DataSift is new kind of search engine that uses crowdsourced human intelligence to answer vague, complex or visual questions, even when the users are not sure what they are searching for.
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answered easily and quickly by human workers
Data trackers monitor your life so they can nudge you - tech - 07 November 2013 - New S... - 0 views
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Once you know everything about a person, you can influence their behaviour.
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The phones are tracking everywhere the students go, who they meet and when, and every text they send
Protecting Your Data on The Cloud - 0 views
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By connecting laptops and smartphones to enormous, remote computing banks, cloud computing gives us access to more processing power than could ever fit in any one of those devices, along with access to all our data and documents from anywhere in the world.
New York Asks Cellphone Carriers to Explain Why They Rejected Antitheft Switch - 0 views
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SAN FRANCISCO - New York State's top prosecutor is investigating why American cellphone carriers have yet to embrace antitheft software on Samsung smartphones, raising questions about possible coordination among the biggest carriers.
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