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Wireless Phone Companies Reportedly Peddling your Personal Info

Wireless Phone Companies Reportedly Peddling your Personal Info

According to a new report by CNN, some cell phone companies are admittedly selling your personal information to the highest bidder. About two weeks ago, Verizon changed its privacy policy to allow the company to record customer location ... continue
Artist Overwhelms Government Agencies With Personal Data After Being Targeted

Artist Overwhelms Government Agencies With Personal Data After Being Targeted

When Bangladesh-born artist Hasan Elahi was stopped at an airport in 2002 and then put through several months of scary interrogations he decided that hiding anything from the government was pointless. Instead of hiding his information Elahi ... continue
Kraft unveils kiosk that reads your face, selects your dinner

Kraft unveils kiosk that reads your face, selects your dinner

Using a technology of indeterminate origin, Kraft has come out with an kiosk designed to scan customer's faces in-store and determine which Kraft foods are best suited to certain consumers. Annoyingly, the Fast Company piece doesn't say whether ... continue

Google Employee Data Stolen

Google may be giving up your YouTube account history, but its own employees have given up their personal data -- albeit, not by choice. A burglary at a third-party human resource company included computers with files of Google ... continue