Drones, Dogs and the Future of Privacy

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/opinion-calo-drones-dogs-privacy/ By Ryan Calo Email Author March 8, 2012 | 5:38 pm | Categories: gps tracking, privacy Photo: U.S. Department of Defense Just in case you haven’t seen the memo: Drones are coming to a city near you. They are arriving on these shores by the hundreds after serving in war zones overseas, and plenty of new […]

Brazil first country to try and use Twitter’s new censorship policy to silence its citizens

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2099391/Brazil-country-use-Twitters-new-censorship-policy-silence-citizens.html By Rob Waugh Last updated at 3:41 PM on 10th February 2012 Brazil could become the first country to take Twitter up on its plan to censor Tweets at government request. The move has sparked alarm among privacy groups, who fear  governments will use the same policy to silence dissenting voices. The Brazilian government […]

Help us spy on Twitter: FBI asks companies to develop software for monitoring social media to predict crimes

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2092534/FBI-asks-companies-develop-software-monitoring-social-media-like-Twitter.html By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 11:51 AM on 27th January 2012 The FBI is to use automated scanners to monitor people’s posts on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, it has emerged this week – and privacy campaigners have described it as an attack on free speech. The agency is looking […]