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Apple Slammed Over iPhone, iPad Location Tracking
By not in system - AOL NewsSAN FRANCISCO -- Privacy watchdogs are demanding answers from Apple Inc. about why iPhones and iPads are secretly collecting location data on users -- records that cellular service providers routinely keep but require a court order to disgorge. It's not clear if other smartphones and tablet computers are logging such information on their users. And this week's revelation that the Apple devices do wasn't even new -- some security experts began warning about the issue a year ago. But the worry prompted by a report from researchers Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden at a technology conference in ...
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Legislation Would Make Sharing TSA's Body Scan Images a Crime
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsProposed new legislation would protect travelers who worry that images taken of them by airport scanners could end up on the Internet. An amendment to the Federal Aviation Administration re-authorization bill would make it a crime to share images taken by the Transportation Security Administration's full-body scanners, which produce graphic images of the human body. Those found guilty of violating the Security Screening Confidential Data Privacy Act, legislation being co-sponsored by Democratic Sens. Charles Schumer of New York and Ben Nelson of Nebraska, could spend up to a year in prison ...
Hawaii Law Bars Release of Obama Birth Certificate
By not in system - AOL NewsHONOLULU - A privacy law that shields birth certificates has prompted Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie to abandon efforts to dispel claims that President Barack Obama was born outside Hawaii, his office says. State Attorney General David Louie told the governor that privacy laws bar him from disclosing an individual's birth documentation without the person's consent, Abercrombie spokeswoman Donalyn Dela Cruz said Friday. "There is nothing more that Gov. Abercrombie can do within the law to produce a document," said Dela Cruz. "Unfortunately, there are conspirators who will continue to ...
Hospital Treating Giffords Fires 3 for Alleged Privacy Breach
By Hugh Collins - AOL NewsThe Arizona hospital where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is recovering from Saturday's shooting rampage has sacked three members of its staff for allegedly accessing confidential medical records inappropriately. The records in question at University Medical Center in Tucson include some connected to the shooting, spokeswoman Katie Riley said, according to The Arizona Star. "University Medical Center takes the privacy of all patients very seriously," the hospital said in a statement on its website. "The families of all patients whose information was accessed have been notified." A contracted nurse ...
New Clothing Line Reminds TSA of the 4th Amendment
By Marc Hartzman - AOL News
(Dec. 7) -- Not thrilled with the Transportation Security Administration's new touchy-feely pat down techniques and full-body scanners? Now there's a line of underclothes that offer a friendly reminder of the Fourth Amendment during controversial searches. It's called 4th Amendment Wear. Metallic ink printed on shirts spells out the privacy rights stated in the amendment and is designed to appear in TSA scanners. Courtesy of Tim Geoghegan Using metallic ink, 4th Amendment Wear is designed to appear in TSA scanners. Creators Tim Geoghegan, 34, and Matthew Ryan, 28, both advertising ...
Google Fans Egg Homes of Privacy-Loving Germans
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(Nov. 25) -- You can't hide from Google. That's the message of Web vigilantes who went on a real-world rampage in Germany this weekend, egging the homes of privacy-loving citizens who opted out of the search giant's Street View service. Google launched Street View -- which provides a panoramic view of city streets -- in the country earlier this month. But after coming under pressure from the government and privacy campaigners, the search firm gave property owners the right to have images of their abodes blurred. Around 3 percent of German residents (about 250,000 people) asked for their ...
UK Criticizes Google for 'Significant Breach' of Privacy Law
By Hugh Collins - AOL News
(Nov. 3) -- U.K. authorities declared today that Google committed a "significant breach" of privacy laws by gathering confidential information with its Street View cars. The Street View cars photograph streets and gather information on the location of wireless Internet connections. Google used this information to provide services such as driving directions on Google Maps. The cars have stirred up controversy by also gathering so-called payload data -- information transmitted over unsecured Wi-Fi connections. Harold Cunningham, Getty Images A Google Street View camera car waits at a light ...
Hawaii U Posted Private Info of 40,000 Students Online
By Mara Gay - AOL News
(Oct. 29) -- More than 40,000 former University of Hawaii students now know what plenty of others before them have regrettably experienced firsthand: Security online can be elusive. The students' Social Security numbers, grades and other private information were made public after a faculty member at the school accidentally posted the information online, according to The Associated Press. The sensitive information of anyone who attended the school's Manoa campus from 1990 to 1998 or in 2001 was available over the Internet, university spokesman Ryan Mielke told the AP. The security breach ...
'Firesheep' Firefox Extension Highlights Privacy Concerns on Facebook, Twitter
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Oct. 25) -- Have you ever bombarded a friend with Facebook messages by changing their birthday to the current date? The classic Facebook prank has never been easier thanks to a new Firefox extension -- Firesheep -- that allows any Internet user on a Wi-Fi network to access user names and passwords of other computers also using the network. Firesheep works by collecting information from Internet "cookies" -- the temporary Internet file containing your username and password that a website like Facebook or Twitter will send back to a computer so users can enjoy the website without logging in ...
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