A popular free mobile application from online music service Pandora.com that is the subject of a Grand Jury investigation into loose data privacy practices in the mobile application market confirms that the application silently sends reams of sensitive data to advertisers. The analysis was conducted by application security firm Veracode and found that Pandora’s free mobile application for Android phones tracked and submitted a range of data, including the user’s gender, geographic location and the unique ID of their phone, according to an entry on Veracode’s blog.
Are U.S. government microwave mind-control tests causing TV presenters’ brains to melt down? By TOM LEONARD Last updated at 12:03 AM on 2nd April 2011
“Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy. Celebrity doesn’t have anything to do with art or craft. It’s about being rich and thinking that you’re better than everybody else.”
The Tor Project has become a vital mechanism for privacy advocates, human rights activists, journalists and others in sensitive positions to evade online censorship and persecution. And while the governments interested in limiting user access to the Internet and controlling content have had some recent success in preventing the use of the anonymity network, Tor members have been working on new methods for circumventing those restrictions.
All photographers are potential terrorists, say police: Police routinely treat anyone seen taking photos as suspicious Read more: http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/all_photographers_are_potential_terrorists_say_police_news_305758.html?aff=rss
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