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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.

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NSA says how often, not when, it discloses software flaws

November 6, 2015 creative because-the-nsa, car-guards, companies-open, cyber-attacks, flaws-it-finds, joseph-menn, most-serious, nsa, problems, san, security, the-officials, the-problems, time, vulnerabilities

By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The U.S.

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Square IPO priced at 30 percent discount to last private funding

November 6, 2015 admin because-the-nsa, car-guards, flaws-it-finds, initial-public, joseph-menn, mobile, nsa, san, security, the-officials, twitter

By Heather Somerville SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Mobile payments company Square Inc set a price range on Friday for its highly anticipated initial public offering that values the company at up to $4.2 billion, a 30 percent discount to its valuation at its last fundraising round. San Francisco-based Square, which is headed by Twitter Inc Chief Executive Jack Dorsey, is one of the most prominent “unicorns,” or private companies valued at more than $1 billion, to make a public debut this year

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Judge dismisses Wikimedia lawsuit over NSA surveillance – report

October 24, 2015 creative bluffdale, caitlyn-jenner, carson, federal-court, nsa, popular-costume, security, spying-programs, super-bowl, united, village-party

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by Wikimedia and other groups challenging one of the U.S. National Security Agency's mass surveillance programs, the Baltimore Sun reported. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Maryland, where the spy agency is based, said the NSA is violating U.S

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Space age perils: hackers find a new battleground on the final frontier

October 22, 2015 admin bluffdale, brake-on-future, carson, final-frontier, hang-on-display, museum, nonprofit, nsa, popular-costume, security, space, super-bowl, udvar

By Ari Rabinovitch JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Space, the 'final frontier', is rapidly becoming an extra-terrestrial battleground for corporate espionage and other types of cyber attack as hackers seek to gain commercial advantage from rival networks operating in the $330-billion space economy.

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CIA sought to hack Apple iPhones from earliest days: The Intercept

March 10, 2015 admin apple, commonly-used, customer-holds, intercept, islamic-state, mobile-phone, most-investors, nsa, said-the-latest, security, since-the-peak, social-networks, spread-messages, stock-price, technology-fund

By Eric Auchard FRANKFURT (Reuters) – CIA researchers have worked for nearly a decade to break the security protecting Apple phones and tablets, investigative news site The Intercept reported on Tuesday, citing documents obtained from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. The report cites top-secret U.S.

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Judge rules for NSA in warrantless search case

February 10, 2015 publisher california, district-judge, internet, jeffrey-white, lawsuit-alleges, nsa, purely-domestic, the-government, time

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White in Oakland, California wrote the plaintiffs failed to establish legal standing to pursue a claim that the government violated the Fourth Amendment