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Yahoo caught up in government surveillance scandal

06

Oct

2016

Yahoo may have been part of an alleged top-secret US government initiative to scan hundreds of millions of e-mail accounts, according to Reuters. Sources claim Yahoo developed its own surveillance software that scanned incoming emails and attachments in real time for specific characters or phrases. “Yahoo is a law abiding company, and complies with the […]

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ACLU blasts Yahoo’s secret email searches for government

05

Oct

2016

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is blasting an order from U.S. intelligence agencies that forced Yahoo to scan customers emails and turn over data as “unprecedented and unconstitutional.” “The government appears to have compelled Yahoo to conduct precisely the type of general, suspicion-less search that the Fourth Amendment was intended to prohibit,” said Patrick […]

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Your Car Is Watching You—and Wants to Sell You Stuff

30

Sep

2016

This isn’t a futuristic vision. The navigation app Waze invites drivers to select favored brands (Starbucks, perhaps?), so marketers can push location-based promotions to to them. But this data isn’t always used to see you something. It can also save your life. General Motors’ OnStar service summons help when your airbag deploys. Data is neither good or bad. But it […]

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