• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• May-29-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on New NSA phone dragnet proposals blasted as flawed

Two U.S. senators are pushing proposals to extend the National Security Agency’s domestic telephone records dragnet, but a diverse coalition of civil liberties and advocacy groups have called on lawmakers to vote against those plans.
Proposals by Senator Richard Burr, a […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• May-29-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Tor connections to hidden services could be easy to de-anonymize

Identifying users who access Tor hidden services—websites that are only accessible inside the Tor anonymity network—is easier than de-anonymizing users who use Tor to access regular Internet websites.Security researchers Filipo Valsorda and George Tankersley showed Friday at the Hack in […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• May-29-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Uber revises privacy policy, wants more data from users

Uber Technologies is revising its privacy policy to allow it to access a rider’s location when its smartphone app is running in the background, and to send special offers to users’ friends and family.Users will be in control in either […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• May-29-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Man charged with selling fake discount coupons on Silk Road

A Louisiana man has been accused of creating counterfeit coupons and selling them on the Silk Road underground websites, potentially defrauding businesses of more than US$1 million, the Justice Department said Thursday.Prosecutors said Beau Wattigne... Read More