Posts Tagged ‘privacy’

The Secret Web: Where Drugs, Porn and Murder Live Online – TIME

November 13, 2013

The Secret Web: Rather scary account of the Silk Road explaining its use of #bitcoin & #tor
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2156271,00.html via @smthwrld #privacy

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2156271,00.html

100,000 British invited to post their genomes online – in the name of science — RT News

November 10, 2013

http://rt.com/news/genome-british-project-data-376

How America’s Top Tech Companies Created the Surveillance State – NationalJournal.com

November 7, 2013

How America’s Top Tech Companies Created the #Surveillance State: Subtle pressure created an intel-industrial complex
http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/how-america-s-top-tech-companies-created-the-surveillance-state-20130725

Temporal cloak erases data from history : Nature News & Comment

October 24, 2013

Interesting discussion of a temporal cloaking device that can hide picosecond timescales. This could potentially be used to obscure communication between two parties — from say the CIA — in a short time period.

Temporal cloak erases data from history. Perhaps useful to foil future #NSA metadata collection.
http://www.nature.com/news/temporal-cloak-erases-data-from-history-1.13141 #privacy

http://www.nature.com/news/temporal-cloak-erases-data-from-history-1.13141

Snowden’s E-Mail Service, in a Legal Tug of War – NYTimes.com

October 16, 2013

#Lavabit, #Snowden’s email service, in a legal tug of war: FBI wants keys for all users, rather creepy
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/us/snowdens-e-mail-provider-discusses-pressure-from-fbi-to-disclose-data.html MT @NoteradCom

N.S.A. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens – NYTimes.com

October 15, 2013

#NSA Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens: Metadata can be very revealing
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/us/nsa-examines-social-networks-of-us-citizens.html via @kenhyers #privacy

A Data Broker Offers a Peek Behind the Curtain – NYTimes.com

September 12, 2013

A Data Broker Offers a Peek Behind the Curtain: site listing what’s compiled about you
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/business/a-data-broker-offers-a-peek-behind-the-curtain.html MT @robert_schiff #privacy

site = http:aboutthedata.com

HeLa Cells Contaminating Other Cell Lines

August 21, 2013

Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2009 Sep;133(9):1463-7. doi: 10.1043/1543-2165-133.9.1463.

Henrietta Lacks, HeLa cells, and cell culture contamination.

Lucey BP, Nelson-Rees WA, Hutchins GM.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19722756

Article: The biggest threat to the genomic revolution? Spying scandals

August 14, 2013

The biggest threat to the genomic revolution? Spying scandals — pro #sharing with few #privacy worries editorial http://fw.to/aLba6TX

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/the-biggest-threat-to-the-genomic-revolution-spying-scandals/article13531705

The human genome contracts again

August 13, 2013

http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/17/2199.short?rss=1