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Obama urges tech, law enforcement to address social media used for plots

December 7, 2015 admin address, from-expressing, help-address, militant-groups, official, president, social-media, use-technology

The White House is urging Silicon Valley to help address the threat posed by militant groups by restricting the use of social media for planning and promoting violence, a senior administration official said on Sunday. In coming days, the White House will talk to companies in the tech sector about developing a “clearer understanding of when we believe social media is being used actively and operationally to promote terrorism,” said the official, speaking on background

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Shootings sharpen debate on U.S. electronic surveillance powers

December 6, 2015 creative address, against-privacy, bernardino, bulk-collection, bulk-metadata, california, from-expressing, help-address, militant-groups, nsa, official, recent-shutdown, under-renewed, use-technology, wednesdays

The San Bernardino shootings are reviving a debate about Washington's digital surveillance effort to find and capture violent extremists, with the recent shutdown of a U.S. cellphone spying program coming under renewed criticism. The debate is long-running and pits a huge and powerful national security apparatus against privacy and civil rights activists, who prevailed recently on the National Security Agency’s (NSA) bulk collection of cellphone metadata.

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VTech hack exposes ID theft risk in connecting kids to Internet

December 6, 2015 publisher against-privacy, child, from-expressing, jeremy-wagstaff, kong-based, militant-groups, motive, nsa, over-the-next, seen-on-display, under-renewed, wagstaff, wednesdays

By Jim Finkle and Jeremy Wagstaff BOSTON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Parents who gave their child a Kidizoom smartwatch or a VTech InnoTab tablet may have exposed them to identity theft after Hong Kong-based VTech said hackers stole the personal information of more than 6 million children. Shipments of toys that connect to the Internet will rise 200 percent over the next five years, according to estimates by UK-based Juniper Research. It's not clear what the motive was for the VTech breach nor whether it has resulted in any identity theft so far

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India’s Modi spoofed over doctored photos of Chennai flood visit

December 4, 2015 publisher against-privacy, became-the-butt, from-expressing, india, jeremy-wagstaff, kong-based, militant-groups, narendra-modi, nsa, peering-through, press, prime-minister, speaks-during, strongest

Prime Minister Narendra Modi became the butt of online jokes on Friday when it turned out an official photo showing him surveying flood damage in southern India through a helicopter window had been doctored. The picture showed Modi peering through the round window at a dramatic view of flooded city streets in Chennai, capital of Tamil Nadu state, after the strongest rains in a century there killed more than 280 people in a month and displaced thousands of residents. Social media lit up with users accusing the official Press Information Bureau (PIB) of faking the scene.