Anonymous takes down over 9000 Israeli sites, Wipes Databases....

Read More: http://newswalls.blogspot.com/2012/11/anonymous-takes-down-over-9000-israeli.htmlWhen the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) this week began taking military action in the Gaza strip against Hamas (as the IDF...

Quarter of state databases "should be scrapped"

" Mon Mar 23, 2009 4:29am GMT  LONDON (Reuters) - A quarter of government databases in Britain should be scrapped or redesigned because they are fundamentally flawed and probably illegal, a report from a social...

Maryland: Gays Among List of Suspected Terrorists

Gays among list of suspected "terrorists", Maryland's State Police have been accused of spying and Maryland's Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgender Civl Rights organization, Equality Maryland, once considered...

European court rules DNA database breaches human rights

The European Court of Human Rights ruled today that keeping a database of DNA samples of people not convicted of any crime is unlawful. As a result of the ruling, the DNA records of hundreds of thousands of people in the UK will have to be thrown out."Police forces in much of...

Polar bear photo database created

Anyone who has taken nice close-ups of polar bears in the wild is being asked to contribute their photos to the online polar bear research database put together by biologists from the University of Central...

Passports will be needed to buy mobile phones in UK

Want a new prepaid mobile phone in Britain? Are your papers in order, sir/ma'am? I hope so, because Whitehall plans on requiring passports for folks who want to buy mobile phones. Despite consistently losing...

Data-Mining for Terrorists Not 'Feasible,' DHS-Funded Study Finds

Homeland Security report finds datamining isn't feasible for catching "terrorists"."The government should not be building predictive data-mining programs systems that attempt to figure out who among millions is a terrorist, a privacy and terrorism commission funded by...

Will Florida be the deciding state for Election 2008

"And eight years after Florida's recount drama, a new election debacle in Palm Beach County, home of the infamous "butterfly ballot," as well as new voting laws and untested voting machines, suggest the Sunshine...

Google Launches Audio Indexing

Google has a new app in beta called GAudi, which is going to crawl political youtube vids and make transcripts searchable."As the Web becomes more sophisticated and audio and video becomes a more important part of our online lives, we need something that will help us sift...

Amazon's IMDb.com to Allow Free Film, TV Viewing

A very smart, and very timely, business move for Amazon and the Internet Movie Database. No word yet on when this will take effect."Amazon.com said on Monday that its subsidiary, Internet Movie Database, would...

Targeted advertising exploits insecurities

I've mostly learned to ignore the loud and often obscene ads that litter the edges of my Gmail and Facebook accounts, but every so often the accuracy with which they pick up tags in my emails nabs my...

39,000 innocent children on national DNA database

Britain is already the most spied on nation in the world having more CCTV cameras than any other country and now the population is systematically being DNA profiled by the government at any available...

Man charged in rape, slaying of Florida girl, 6

"TAMPA, Florida (AP) -- A man already in prison for burglary and stealing a car was charged Tuesday in the rape and slaying of a 6-year-old southwest Florida girl nearly two years ago, police said. ...

Controversial US spy office closed

Counterintelligence Field Activity office (Cifa) has been closed. It was created the office in 2002 by Rumsfeld  in response to the September 11 attacks. "Cifa caused concern after a database...

Viacom gives in to YouTube privacy concerns

An update on the ongoing legal battle between media giant Viacom and video behemoth Youtube: Viacom has backed off on its demand for usernames and IP addresses of infringing Youtubers; well, some of them,...

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