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China Bars Olympics Coverage From Tiananmen Square
Posted by AP on 24 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, Asia, Free Speech, NBC Universal, CN, Media Freedom, Journalism, privacy, Censorship
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By AP A ban on live broadcasts at the square would disrupt the plans major international networks, which are counting on eye-pleasing live shots from the landmark site. |
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A Company Promises The Deepest Data Mining Yet
Posted by NY Times on 20 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ethics, Media Freedom, New Media, Google, Clear Channel, Books, privacy, Human Rights, Internet
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By Louise Story, NY Times The company, called Phorm, has created a tool that can track every single online action of a given consumer, based on data from that person’s Internet service provider. |
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Reporter Of Anthrax Probe Is Fined Over Sources
Posted by Wall Street Journal on 10 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, Free Speech, Media Freedom, Journalism, privacy, Human Rights
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By Robert MacMillan, WSJ A former USA Today reporter tomorrow will have to start paying hundreds, then thousands of dollars in fines, out of her own pocket, for refusing to reveal sources. |
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Senate OKs Bill To Extend Eavesdropping
Posted by LA Times on 13 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: News, Bush, Free Speech, Politics, Ethics, Policy, Telecommunications, privacy
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By Greg Miller, LA Times The Senate approved espionage legislation that would expand the government’s authority to intercept international phone calls and e-mails and to block lawsuits against U.S. telecommunications companies that aided in past spying efforts. |
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Dems Fight Spying with Clinton and Obama MIA
Posted by The Nation on 12 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: News, privacy
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By Ari Melber, The Nation A trio of Democratic House Committee Chairmen are stepping up the fight against President Bush’s surveillance bill this week. |
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Lawmakers Near Immunity Fight, Extend Spy Bill
Posted by Reuters on 30 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: News, Verizon, Middle East, AT&T, Security, privacy, Human Rights
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By Thomas Ferraro, Reuters Amid a high-stakes battle over whether to grant telephone companies immunity, the House of Representatives agreed to extend an expiring anti-terror surveillance law. |
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The End of Privacy
Posted by Truth Dig on 25 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: News, Bush, Politics, Cheney, AT&T, privacy
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By Seth Cohen, Truth Dig Amid the controversy brewing in the Senate over Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) reform, the Bush administration appears to have changed its strategy and is devising a bold new plan that would strip away FISA protections. |
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The Search Party
Posted by New Yorker on 08 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, USDemocrats, Bush, Politics, Technology, New Media, Policy, Activism, Google, Business, privacy
Facebook Alters Notifications After Privacy Furor
Posted by Reuters on 30 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: News, New Media, facebook, privacy
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By Eric Auchard, Reuters Confronted with mounting privacy protests, Facebook.com has scaled back a Web monitoring feature that notifies one’s friends when the Facebook user visits affiliated Web sites. |
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Senate Panel Takes Up Press Shield Bill
Posted by AP on 04 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: News, USDemocrats, Free Speech, Politics, Media Freedom, Journalism, Policy, Activism, Newspapers, Judicial, privacy
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By Laurie Kellman, AP The Senate Judiciary Committee is trying again to tackle a bill that would shield reporters from being forced to reveal their sources in federal court. |
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Civilizing the Web’s ethical wildness
Posted by Christian Science Monitor on 19 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: News, Ethics, New Media, FCC, privacy
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By Mark Lange, Christian Science Monitor A dozen or so years since arriving on the scene, the Web is still an ethical adolescent. |
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Intelligence Chief Pushes New Spy Law
Posted by USA Today on 17 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: News, USDemocrats, Bush, Technology, Ethics, Policy, Telecommunications, Judicial, US Congress, privacy
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By Richard Willing, USA Today Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell heads to Capitol Hill seeking to extend the government’s power to read e-mails, listen to telephone calls and carry out other surveillance in the USA in national security cases. |
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Point, Click… Eavesdrop: How the FBI Wiretap Net Operates
Posted by Wired on 29 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: News, US, Politics, Technology, FBI, Policy, Telecommunications, Security, Democracy, Terror, privacy
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By Ryan Singel, Wired The FBI has quietly built a sophisticated, point-and-click surveillance system that performs instant wiretaps on almost any communications device. |
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Attorneys General Push To Shield Minors on Web
Posted by Wall Street Journal on 22 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: News, Technology, Policy, MySpace, Security, facebook, privacy
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By Corey Boles, Wall Street Journal Online Social-network sites are asked to impose tighter age controls. |
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Monster attack steals user data
Posted by BBC News on 22 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: News, Technology, Security, Terror, privacy
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By BBC News US job website Monster.com has suffered an online attack with the personal data of hundreds of thousands of users stolen, says a security firm. |
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