Google CEO: We Know All About You

Google CEO Eric Schmidt, has courted controversy in the past by saying eerie things about the amount of personal information Google knows about its users. Schmidt recently said – ‘If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.” Schmidt also stated that young […]

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Contact Sync App Gives Facebook Access To Your Phone List

If you have used the “Contact Sync” tool on Facebook to coordinate your cell phone address book with your Facebook friends list, you may have unknowingly provided the world’s most powerful social network with your phone’s contact list. The “Contact Sync” tool synchronizes your friends’ Facebook profiles with your phone’s contact list. The application adds […]

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DC Police Using GPS To Track Young Criminals

Washington DC’s juvenile justice department is testing a criminal finder program that attaches GPS devices to the ankles of the young criminals that are released back into the city. The department has a contract with a company called Satellite Tracking of People to handle to criminal tracking system. Satellite Tracking of People is the same […]

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Real Time Search Engine For Government Information

The US federal government now has a real time, Twitter-style search engine that allows people to find the most current government information. People can search for specific subjects, like “energy tax credit” or browse general topics like “agriculture” to find relevant government documents and blog postings from 144 federal departments. Just like on Twitter search, […]

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