Wednesday, June 16, 2010

No real surprise, but why haven't we heard of more incidents like this?

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/06/15/2045245/FBIs-Facebook-Monitoring-Leads-To-Arrest-In-England?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29

FBI's Facebook Monitoring Leads To Arrest In England

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 15, @06:35PM

"The BBC reports that armed police were called to a UK school earlier today after being advised of a potential threat by the FBI. The school stated that the FBI 'raised the alarm after Internet scanning software picked up a suspicious combination of words,' strongly implying that they are carrying out routine, automated surveillance of social networking sites. While in this case it does appear that there may have been a genuine threat, the story nonetheless raises significant privacy concerns."



This isn't new, is it?

http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/024490.html

June 15, 2010

Several State Attorneys General Announce Probes of Google Wireless Data Collection

  • News release: "Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is asking Google whether its “street view” cars collected personal information transmitted over wireless networks without permission while photographing Connecticut streets and homes. Google has acknowledged that “street view” cars in some locations have intercepted information from unsecured personal WIFI networks. In Europe, notably Ireland, Google admitted intercepting packets of data from unsecured WIFI networks. Private litigation alleges that Google also did so in the United States. Published reports say the captured, private online information may include general web browsing, passwords, personal emails and other data. Blumenthal wrote Google asking the company whether it gathered such data in Connecticut. If it did, the attorney general is demanding that the company tell his office how much and what kind of information it collected, when and where it did so, why, where the data is stored and other information."

  • News release: "Attorney General Chris Koster sent a letter to Google, asking the company to provide details on personal information it may have collected from Missourians in connection with Google's Street View Service. Recent media reports and admissions by the company indicate that as part of Google's effort to collect data for its mapping service Street View, the company may have gained access to residents' communications sent over public Wi-Fi networks."



Amazing how much attention this got on the Web, but nothing I could find in conventional media. Note: Other sources suggest the picture may have been doctored.

http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/2010/06/15/miley_cyrus_upskirt

Miley Cyrus upskirt shot: Child porn?

… The facts as we know them: On Sunday, Hilton's Twitter account sent out the following message: "If you are easily offended, do NOT click here http://i46.tinypic.com/2rze4pv.jpg Oh, Miley! Warning: truly not for the easily offended!" The photo in question has since been yanked down, but the image is allegedly of Cyrus climbing out of a car wearing a dress and no underwear (according to EarSucker.com, this is a censored version of the image in question). Now, Hilton has posted upskirt shots before of Britney Spears -- but Cyrus is roughly five months short of her 18th birthday. She's still a minor and it's legally considered child pornography.



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