A Russian police officer turned whistleblower is posting a series homemade videos on YouTube that purport to blow the whistle on corruption and bureaucratic incompetence in Russian police departments while urging Russian Prime Minister Vladymir Putin to act. Over the past week Russian officer Alexei Dymovsky has posted a series of three 2-7 minute personal […]
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Google announced yesterday that they will add enhanced people tracking and location tools to their Google Latitude search service. The two new location features are “Google Location History” and “Google Location Alerts (beta)”. “Google Location History” will allow Latitude users to review and store their past Latitude locations. Think of this feature as virtual electronic […]
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The Telegraph is reporting that the UK will require all internet service providers and telecommunications companies to save and store all personal communications made by users for one year. In addition, this stored personal information will be made available for use by 653 government departments and agencies including law enforcement, fire and other emergency services, […]
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In a self-proclaimed effort to warn people about the dangers of not protecting their personal information on social networks, hackers took over hundreds of Facebook groups today, changing the name of all affected groups to “Control Your Info.” and posting the following warning to each group and its registered users —————————————————————————- Hello, we hereby announce […]
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The 2009 Application Usage and Risk Report from Palo Alto Networks that analyzed web use and traffic patterns on over 200 networks globally showed that business use of social networks, social media and collaborative software exploded over the last six months. Findings from the report include: – Twitter use grew by 250 percent from the […]