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"Anonymized" data really isn'tâand here's why not
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| Companies continue to store and sometimes release vast databases of
| "anonymized" information about users. But, as Netflix, AOL, and the State
| of Massachusetts have learned, "anonymized" data can often be cracked in
| surprising ways, revealing the hidden secrets each of us are assembling in
| online "databases of ruin."
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/09/your-secrets-live-online-in-databases-of-ruin.ars
What US Homeland Security collects about you
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| Any time a person crosses the US border, the Department of Homeland
| Security assigns travelers with a "risk assessment" score to divine their
| likelihood of any involvement with a terrorist cell or criminal activity.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/08/dhs_ats_rating_philosecurity/
Proprietary software is very good at collecting data on people and phoning home.
Recent:
New ID cards are supposed to be 'unforgeable' - but it took our expert 12
minutes to clone one, and programme it with false data
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1204641/New-ID-cards-supposed-unforgeable--took-expert-12-minutes-clone-programme-false-data.html
UK ID Card Technology Cloned...
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| No surprises there, of course; but what's significant is that it's the Daily
| Mail that's pushing this jolly news out to its assembled readers. This means
| the message is going out to groups beyond the obvious Guardian greeny-lefties
| and Telegraph Tories.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/08/uk-id-card-technology-cloned.html
Government rubbishes ID card hack report
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/07/id_card_hacked/
Related:
Labour minister says 14 year olds should get ID cards
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| A government minister has spoken glowingly of the prospect of kids as young
| as six handing over their biometrics as she boasted that the Tories and
| LibDems would find it impossible to unpick the governmentâs ID card scheme.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/23/id_cards_offies/
The war on photographers - you're all al Qaeda suspects now
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/23/police_photographer_stops/
Bavaria sanctions police spyware
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| Bavaria has become the first German state to approve laws that allow police
| to plant spyware on the PCs of terror suspects.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/07/bavaria_police_spyware_plan/
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