Students who take the Law School Admissions Test ( LSAT ) may be giving up their privacy according to a warning put out by the University of Ottawa. LSAT rules require test takers to provide a fingerprint before taking the test to thwart attempts by imposters to gain access. Privacy advocates and students are worried […]
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The Financial Times is reporting that CityWatcher.com, an Ohio-based public surveillance company, is experimenting with silicon chips implanted in two of its employees for identification and room access purposes. From the article — CityWatcher.com, a private video surveillance company, said it was testing the technology as a way of controlling access to a room where […]
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AP reporter Chelsea J. Carter discusses how Google and Googling are making things difficult for her in the dating scene. From the article — It starts in a bar: Meet a guy, have a drink, exchange names and later phone numbers. That meeting is followed by a call a couple of days later. It’s going […]
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has filed the state’s first lawsuit against a phone record data broker and his companies. The suit names John Strange of Denver, CO and his companies USA Skip Trace, AMS Research Services Inc. and Worldwide Investigations Inc. From the article — Abbott says he has reason to believe Strange uses […]
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Here is an interesting and informative article by Robert Boyd on the use of data mining to create profiles on people based on their past activities. Data mining is being used by both the public and private sectors to create personal and behavioral profiles on citizens / consumers. Everyone from government agencies to marketing professionals […]