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Cia Tech Boss: ‘We Try To Collect Everything and Hang onto It Forever’
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March 26, 2013 posted by Amundsen

Cia Tech Boss: ‘We Try To Collect Everything and Hang onto It Forever’

Discussing the goldmine of data that today’s technology has created, the Central Intelligence Agency’s Chief Technology Officer Ira “Gus” Hunt on Wednesday said the spy agency tries to “collect everything we can and hang onto it forever.”

Hunt was speaking at GigaOM’s Structure: Data conference in New York City when he openly admitted the CIA is compiling everyone’s tweets, messages, videos and more. And yes, it’s on purpose.

Study: Facebook Likes Can Be Used to Determine Intelligence, Sexuality
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March 15, 2013 posted by Thea

Study: Facebook Likes Can Be Used to Determine Intelligence, Sexuality

If you like thunderstorms, The Colbert Report or curly fries on Facebook, you’re a genius. If you like Sephora, Harley-Davidson or the country-western band Lady Antebellum, you’re not.

That might go without saying, but the brainiacs at the University of Cambridge Psychometrics Center and Microsoft Research Cambridge have the data to prove it – and a lot of other things about you, too.

Cameras Inside Mannequins Spying on Shoppers
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November 22, 2012 posted by Thea

Cameras Inside Mannequins Spying on Shoppers

Just when you thought it was impossible for surveillance to get any creepier, a company has announced it has created mannequins with cameras installed inside that can be used to spy on shoppers and record their conversations – and that they’ve already been rolled out at numerous fashion stores across the world.

Facebook camera scans your face to customize deals
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August 15, 2012 posted by Thea

Facebook camera scans your face to customize deals

“Check in with your face” is the motto a U.S. marketing company is using to preface its new face scan deal-linking technology.

Redpepper, out of Nashville, TN, has developed technology that says it will save you money, however, the methods engaged are much more intrusive than your standard grocery store coupon.

Facebook Banking on a Cashless Society
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July 17, 2012 posted by Thea

Facebook Banking on a Cashless Society

As if the current methods of evaporating privacy and pushing a world toward the Cashless Society were not moving fast enough, Facebook is now developing and beta testing an app that would allow users to “pay their utility bills, balance their checkbooks, and transfer money at the same time they upload vacation photos to the site for friends to see.”

Big Brother Is Watching Facebook And Twitter
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June 29, 2012 posted by Joseph Candel

Big Brother Is Watching Facebook And Twitter

Satirical newspaper The Onion recently described Facebook as a project of the Central Intelligence Agency. “After years of secretly monitoring the public, we were astounded,” a fictional agency deputy director told Congress.

10 Reasons Why Nothing You Do On The Internet Will EVER Be Private Again
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April 3, 2012 posted by Joseph Candel

10 Reasons Why Nothing You Do On The Internet Will EVER Be Private Again

The Internet is rapidly being transformed into a Big Brother control grid where privacy rights are being systematically strangled to death. The control freaks that run things have become absolutely obsessed with watching, tracking, monitoring and recording virtually everything that you do on the Internet.

Europe versus Facebook: 24 Year Old Student Lights Match
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October 19, 2011 posted by Thea

Europe versus Facebook: 24 Year Old Student Lights Match

Max is a 24 year old law student from Vienna with a flair for the interview and plenty of smarts about both technology and legal issues. In Europe there is a requirement that entities with data about individuals make it available to them if they request it. That’s how Max ended up with a personalized CD from Facebook that he printed out on a stack of paper more than a thousand pages thick

Facebook tracks your every move, even after logging out
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September 29, 2011 posted by Thea

Facebook tracks your every move, even after logging out

The social media empire Facebook has unveiled some new “features” on its platform in recent days that many allege are a total and compete privacy-breaching nightmare. But one hidden feature, discovered by Nik Cubrilovic, an Australian entrepreneur and writer, that few people are aware of is the fact that Facebook now monitors your online activity, even when you are not logged in to the service.