The Federal Trade Commission has put the brakes on the business practices of an operation that was selling spyware and showing customers how to remotely install it on other people’s computers without their knowledge or consent. The FTC is announcing a settlement that bars the sellers of the “RemoteSpy” keylogger from advertising that the spyware…
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Ca: BC Hydro fights RCMP on power records
Jane Seyd reports that BC Hydro pushed back when RCMP obtained an order for them to turn over all customer records based on energy usage: North Vancouver RCMP have backed off on a request that would have forced BC Hydro to turn over the records of more than a thousand North Vancouver homeowners using large…
Honor the fallen
The following is a blog entry I wrote for Chronicles of Dissent for Memorial Day 2006: I think somewhere along the line, the meaning of Memorial Day must have changed, because why else would Colin Powell be talking about remembering those who are currently serving in the war? The original meaning of Memorial Day –and…
Mobile Data: A Gold Mine for Telcos
Tom Simonite reports: Cell phone companies are finding that they’re sitting on a gold mine–in the form of the call records of their subscribers. Researchers in academia, and increasingly within the mobile industry, are working with large databases showing where and when calls and texts are made and received to reveal commuting habits, how far…