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BART Police database hacked – names and addresses posted online

18

Aug

2011

A database belonging to the BART Police Officers Association appears to have been hacked, and the names, postal and email addresses of officers posted online. Just over 100 officers are listed in the document, in what is clearly a serious security breach. The reason why BART is the focus for so much attention by hackers? […]

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Can Germany’s data protection laws forestall facial recognition?

10

Aug

2011

Facial recognition technology is a hot topic and this recently caught my attention: German authorities have suggested that Facebook’s “facial recognition” feature is illegal. From Deutsche Welle:Hamburg’s data protection official Johannes Caspar claims that the software violates both German and European Union data protection laws and that Facebook users don’t know how to delete the […]

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Toddlers and technology: a bad mix?

26

Jul

2011

I am sure that any of you with young children can attest to the following: they just love playing with your smartphones or tablets. In our house, our iPad is in constant demand by our just-about-to-turn-three year-old niece, nicknamed Doobs. She calls it The Board. She will literally plead for ‘The Boooooard’ as she drags […]

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