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• Las Vegas Sun: Metro admits to improper release of criminal history data

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 477
  From the Las Vegas Sun comes yet another story of insiders accused of misusing or abusing their access to government databases. (Last week, the Las Vegas Sun reported on another possible case of insider abuse: “Private information about accident victims treated at University Medical Center has apparently been ...
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• Obama to call for 30,000 troops, withdrawal in 2011

  
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  Washington, Dec 2 (DPA) US President Barack Obama will outline a new Afghanistan policy that will send an additional 30,000 US troops to Afghanistan, and start their withdrawal in July 2011, a senior administration official said.In a pre-speech briefing to reporters, the official, on condition of anonymity, said the ...
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• Update: Milan prosecutors seek prison sentences for Google execs

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 477
  MediaPost has an update on the ongoing trial in Milan against Google executives. Italian authorities charged four Google executives with “criminal charges of defamation and failure to exercise control over personal data.” The case concerns a video showing a disabled boy being harassed by classmates that was ...
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• Richard Gere to be fined for cutting down trees?

  
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  London, Dec 1 (IANS) Hollywood star Richard Gere could be fined up to $50,000 for cutting down trees on his property without first securing permission.The actor failed to seek the appropriate permission before having around 200 trees removed from the grounds of his estate in Pound Ridge, Westchester, New York, in a ...
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• Associated Press: Argentina forces dirty war orphans to provide DNA

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 477
  The Associated Press reports:Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina’s Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to political prisoners slain a quarter-century ago – even when they don’t want to know their birth parents.Human rights activists hope the new ...
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• CBC News: U.S., Canada will share refugee fingerprints

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 477
  CBC News reports that the United States, Canada, Australia and Britain will share “fingerprints and other data to help authorities discern people’s true identities in cracking down on asylum shopping and unlawful immigration. The program would allow governments to ferret out fraudulent refugee claimants by using ...
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• Uttar Pradesh IAS officer was depressed before suicide

  
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  Lucknow, Nov 30 (IANS) Mystery continues to surround the suicide by Uttar Pradesh IAS officer Harminder Raj Singh two days after he allegedly shot himself dead with his licensed revolver. He was on anti-depressants for the past six months, sources close to the family said.Some of Singh’s friends in the bureaucracy ...
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• Wired: Obama Wants Computer Privacy Ruling Overturned

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 477
  Wired reports the Obama administration is seeking to reverse a recent ruling (pdf) by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals concerning search of digital evidence.Solicitor General Elena Kagan and Justice Department officials are asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider its August ruling that federal ...
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• Don’t Feed the Trolls

  
  Wikinomics — Authority: 460
  danah boyd, researcher at Microsoft Research New England , Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society , and publisher of the apophenia blog, had plenty to say to the audience at Web 2.0 in New York City on November 17. But some tweeters got in the way . Conference organizers decided to display ...
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• Social Media Is Like the Internet’s Vodka and Red Bull [STATS]

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 168
  People lose their inhibitions behind the anonymity of the Internet? No way! read more
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• AIFF asks Zee Sports to clear Rs.100 mn in dues

  
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  New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) The All India Football Federation (AIFF) Monday asked its marketing and broadcasting partners Zee Sports to clear dues amounting to Rs.100 million.AIFF met Zee Sports officials here and asked them to immediately clear the payments pending since April.The non-payment of dues have been a problem ...
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• Update: California city to record every car coming and going

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 477
  The San Francisco Chronicle has an update to a story I discussed earlier this year. Tiburon, a town near the San Francisco Bay, will use cameras to record the entrance and exit of every vehicle.The Town Council voted 4-0 late Wednesday – with Vice Mayor Miles Berger absent – to install six cameras that recognize ...
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• Questions via Email: Prayer Partners?

  
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  Dear Mr. SponsorPants, I have a question about Prayer Partners.  Im a newcomer to Al-anon and my sponsor has had many suggestions for me in the last few months, but none has been so difficult for me as their most recent suggestion:  That I get a Prayer Partner.  My sponsor defines this as another person in ...
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• Roundup of Privacy Stories from Thanksgiving Holiday

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 477
  Here are a few stories of interest from the last few days:WHAS11: Louisville police reveal use of GPS tracking, sometimes without a warrantWHAS11 in Louisville, Kentucky, reports on the warrantless use of GPS (a location-tracking technology) by police. (For more on the legality of warrantless GPS tracking by law ...
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• Kaiga poisoning: Culprit could have been permanent or contract worker (Lead)

  
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  Bangalore, Nov 30 (IANS) Whoever poisoned a drinking water dispenser at the state-run Kaiga atomic power plant in Karnataka could have been either a permanent or a contract worker, a plant official said Monday.This would make it more difficult to nail the man who had added radioactive Tritium to the water, he added. ...
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• Wall Street Journal: Star-Spangled Bargains

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 477
  Buried in a Wall Street Journal article about shopping is a section on surveillance equipment for sale that can be used to invade the privacy of friends or enemies.I for one would like to believe that the president’s stimulus plan is already working, and that this will be reflected not only in the volume of [...]
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• CBS4 (Florida): Woman Charged After Email Threat Delays MIA Flight

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 477
  CBS4 in Miami, Florida, reports on a woman accused of making bomb threats (one by phone; another via e-mail) to delay a flight so that her boss could catch it. The part relevant to privacy is how the threat was traced to the woman’s computer.Claudia De La Rosa, a Colombian native now living in Sunny [...]
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• Kaiga poisoning: Thousands had access to radioactive chemical

  
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  Bangalore, Nov 30 (IANS) Whoever caused the contamination of a drinking water dispenser at the state-run Kaiga atomic power plant in Karnataka could have been either a permanent or a contract worker, an official said Monday.This would make it more difficult to nail the man who had added radioactive Tritium to the ...
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• Eesha Koppikhar marries Timmy Narang

  
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  Mumbai, Nov 29 (IANS) Bollywood actress Eesha Koppikhar Sunday tied the knot with restaurateur Timmy Narang at a temple here in a ceremony that was attended by close family and friends.The 33-year-old married beau Narang at the ISKCON Temple in Juhu in traditional Maharashtrian style.“The wedding ceremony took place ...
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• For exports, BHEL chooses Karaikal port over Chennai

  
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  Chennai, Nov 28 (IANS) Power equipment major Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd’s (BHEL) Tiruchirappalli unit will start exporting its boilers through the newly built private port at Karaikal, a company official said.The state-run company expects to save on freight and wharf charges by exporting equipment through the ...
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