April 3, 2008 at 9:06 am
· Filed under Rights and Liberties, Technology
Intelligence centers run by states across the country have access to personal information about millions of Americans, including unlisted cellphone numbers, insurance claims, driver’s license photographs and credit reports, according to a document obtained by The Washington Post.
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January 28, 2008 at 10:59 am
· Filed under Culture, Technology
Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. will be editor in chief of the online magazine, called The Root.
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January 14, 2008 at 10:33 am
· Filed under Culture, Technology
In an interview on Wednesday with News.com, Williams revealed he is grateful for the opportunity to promote his music using groundbreaking techniques and also to technology for setting him free from the “constraints of race.”
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January 2, 2008 at 1:03 pm
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Hammer, whose real name is Stanley Burrell, is choreographing a new career as co-founder and chief strategy officer of Menlo Park-based DanceJam.com.
The Web site, scheduled to debut in mid-January, will try to upstage YouTube and become the Internet’s hub for sharing and watching dance videos. DanceJam then hopes to make money by grabbing a piece of the rapidly growing Internet advertising market, which is expected to rake in $27.5 billion in 2008, according to eMarketer.
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December 17, 2007 at 4:23 pm
· Filed under Drug Trade, Privacy, Rights and Liberties, Technology, World News
Do not let it be said that the Bush administration forgot the War on Drugs while waging the War on Terror.
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October 29, 2007 at 10:42 am
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Private companies have more control over our personal information than we do, as the new book, iSpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era, explains.
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October 22, 2007 at 10:36 am
· Filed under Entertainment, Privacy, Rights and Liberties, Technology
LAS VEGAS — This city, famous for being America’s playground, has also become its security lab. Like nowhere else in the United States, Las Vegas has embraced the twin trends of data mining and high-tech surveillance, with arguably more cameras per square foot than any airport or sports arena in…
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October 7, 2007 at 10:01 am
· Filed under Privacy, Technology
Google’s new marketing strategy poses a huge threat to our privacy and democratic aspirations for the Internet.
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October 1, 2007 at 7:31 pm
· Filed under Justice, Privacy, Rights and Liberties, Technology
High-tech surveillance and undercover spying on protests by the NYPD have soared — this is what happens when the “War on Terror” comes home.
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September 27, 2007 at 5:26 am
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