Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans’ Credit Cards in Real Time
This is about a year old. The Wired site has a full DOJ PowerPoint presentation. Aside from being spooky, this is a problem when fitted together with the "all data spills" concept. That is, if we assume that Fed personnel are human, and therefore subject to little side deals and payments, then this data leaks out to "unnamed third parties" continually.
Canon blocks copy jobs by keyword
Using OCR, plus I assume other means, Canon's Uniflow 5 system can read the content of documents being scanned, printed, and copied and record the existence of trigger words or even block specific functions.
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/235047,canon-blocks-copy-jobs-by-keyword.aspxCookies on Your Computer That Last Forever
Hackers have been working on making tracking cookies that cannot be deleted. This is a holy grail goal for both marketeers and spy agencies. (No difference!) Warning: If you go to this URL, they may place a tracking cookie on your browser (and computer) that you may not be able to get rid of.
'Pre-crime' Comes to the HR Dept
A company called Social Intelligence is scraping your Facebook, MySpace, Google+, LinkedIn and other posts and building a case file that will be sold to companies that want to judge whether you will be a fit employee.
Black duck eggs and other secrets of Chinese hackers
Plain old industrial espionage, yum yum. I think this is pretty much the epitome of the undeniable tell. China, you can't deny that black duck eggs would be available in that tiny town! Dead give away!
Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans
American Science & Engineering, based in Billerica, Massachusetts, makes the Z Backscatter Vans ("ZBV") that can be used on any road and used to peer through building walls. (I wonder what the medically-indicated maximum dose of X-ray radiation from these things is? How long until the surveillance is so regular that cancer rates go up?)
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