Julia Angwin and Tom McGinty have a must-read story in the Wall Street Journal: The largest U.S. websites are installing new and intrusive consumer-tracking technologies on the computers of people visiting their sites—in some cases, more than 100 tracking tools at a time—a Wall Street Journal investigation has found. […] n an effort to quantify…
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The TSA’s Secure Flight initiative may be making your privacy less secure
Christopher Elliott writes: Thanks for the birthday card, Southwest Airlines. The computer-generated missive, complete with signatures of the airline’s executives, landed in my mailbox just before the big day. At first I was flattered by the thoughtful gesture. But then I was troubled. How did they know my birthday? And then it occurred to me:…
Judges ponder location for Google privacy lawsuits
Rebecca Boone of the Associated Press reports: A panel of federal judges is deciding where to consolidate several lawsuits against Google Inc. alleging the company violated wiretapping laws. At least nine lawsuits have been filed in the United States so far contending that Google collected fragments of e-mails, Web surfing data and other online information…
Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring
Noah Shachtman reports: The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the…