Feds serve warrant demanding fingerprints from all home residents to unlock their phones - ExtremeTech

http://www.extremetech.com/mobile/237745-feds-demand-fingerprints-from-all-home-residents-to-unlock-their-phones

Feds serve warrant demanding fingerprints from all home residents to unlock their phones | ExtremeTech

http://www.extremetech.com/mobile/237745-feds-demand-fingerprints-from-all-home-residents-to-unlock-their-phones

From civil liberties champion to turncoat: Yahoo built specialized software to spy on users for the NSA [feedly]

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From civil liberties champion to turncoat: Yahoo built specialized software to spy on users for the NSA
// Extremetech


A new report claims that Yahoo didn't just cooperate with the NSA -- it built an unprecedented database to scan incoming email for keywords in real time and turns this information over to federal agencies automatically.

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Google

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/12/turn_off_location_services_go_ahead_says_google_well_still_track_you/

How Private Investigators Use the Internet to Track You

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/private-investigators-use-internet-track-you/

Facial recognition can now identify you without seeing your face

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/08/08/new-facial-recognition-algorithm-is-so-smart-it-doesnt-need-to-see-your-face/

Judge wants Yahoo to reveal how it recovered deleted emails [feedly]

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Judge wants Yahoo to reveal how it recovered deleted emails
// Betanews

Helping out with a drug trafficking case, Yahoo was able to recover emails that had previously been deleted. Now a judge wants to know how this was possible. Yahoo's only policies state that email cannot be recovered once they have been deleted, and defense lawyers for Russell Knaggs -- who planned to move cocaine from South America -- want to know how the company was able to produce deleted email in this case. As explained by Motherboard, Knaggs and his accomplices went to some lengths to try to ensure that their communication could not be intercepted. "As part of the… [Continue Reading]

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