Building Prisons Without Walls Using GPS Devices

Slashdot has a story about new initiative with tagging prison inmates with gps devices. What a stupid idea and as marked in comments this is just ineffective and won't stop people committing the crime.

Retargeting ads

Slashdot has a story about ads which follows you everywhere you go online. Pretty creepy indeed.

Full-Body X-Ray scanners in van near you?

PrivacyFanatic has a story about vans used by US military and agency with mobile X-Ray scanner in it.

GPS Tracking Without a Warrant Declared Legal

This is it

Privacy is dead - Get over it! by Steve Rambam

Just watch these videos. Very disturbing actually...
Part 1
Part 2

Bonus: Google Toilet

Germany bans employers from surveillance they employees at the workplace.

Interesting stuff

Location-based social networks: new threat

EFF run article about new facebook places product. Well this new things so called location-based social networks which allow you in form of game share your current location and places your have been. I don't get it, really. Why would you want share you location with the world in the first place? If you want go to a club with friends why not just call them or send them a private message? This just stupid. Imagine someone hacked your foursquare account and trying to set you up for suspecting in robbery or homicide case check-in in the crime scene on the same time as crime goes. This sounds like a paranoid  bullshit but are your sure you want that sort of troubles? Because again this type of information will be used against you sooner or later. My recommendation is not using this type of service

Anonymous torrent downloads

Interesting article about ways to hide yourself when using torrents.

Minority Report in reality

Fascinating story about public eye scanner devices installed in City of Leon, Mexico. Shit, every day news scares me more and more! City officials hope that helps stop a crime! Oh wait, they want implementing a thinkcrime? Sunglasses and eye lens should help i think.  I going to watch Minority Report again and you should too...

Facebook friend request put guy in jail

So again - facebook used against it's users. How much people must go to jail before people realize you can't do stupid things on the internet and social networks if you reveal you real identity?

Mom arrested after posting photo to facebook

Well are you sure posting photos to facebook to show whole internet are your little son smoking weed is a great idea?
Let's face it social networks information can and will be used against you if you continue to write no-brainier posts and share private information on it.

HP CEO browser history revealed

Are you sure you have nothing to hide? May i look into you browser history? At least he is not watching gay porn...

Who will watch the watchers

There are story about root CA(certificate authority) which raise important question - can we trust the "web of trust" ? The answer is no.
Just check out CA list in your browser - can your sure anyone here can't abuse they power and issue legit certificate to phishing bank site for example? Can your trust Chinese government? But your browser trust!(CNNIC)
Same with the DNS system. We should trust by default to root servers and root CA's so there are no much we can do and there are no alternative to current infrastructure.
Some tips: 1) Delete CA's your don't trust from your browser and OS CA list(but remember this can break some software so be sure what your are deleting) 2) Use local hosts file or your own DNS server and manually add ip->names pairs for critical services or use only IP if you can.

Disney, others sued over privacy issues

CNET publish a story where disney and other sites was collecting personal information with flash cookies. Another reason to use flash blocking software and use it only when necessary.

WSJ interview with Eric Schmidt

WSJ publish a interview with Google CEO. Your must remember who is Eric is and what company he is represent because Google is your worst enemy right now and we talk more on this topic later. But for now some notable quotes from the interview.

"I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions," he elaborates. "They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next."

This is it that what they really want to do with they fancy free services and data they collect. They want absolute power of our lives and influence our thoughts as much as they can. Your see in the future they will tell your who to vote as next president, what to buy and where to live. Are you really want give them that much power?

"we know roughly who you are, roughly what you care about, roughly who your friends are." Google also knows, to within a foot, where you are.

They even doesn't need to hide this...

"I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time," he says.

 Sure they don't. Then why is he so frustrating about his own personal information?