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Not our usual news, but couldn’t ignore it. The Associated Press reports Pentagon sources have confirmed that insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan have hacked into live video feeds from Predator drones. According to the Wall St. Journal, Shiite fighters in Iraq used off-the-shelf software programs such as SkyGrabber the video feeds from the spy planes. One [...] How much is your privacy worth? We may not think about it most of the time, but while YouTube is free to watch, it’s not cost-free to deliver, and the price we’re paying is in personal information. Now, CNet reports that as a result of privacy complaints the White House has stopped using YouTube’s video [...] Ok, not quite, but this is an interesting little tidbit. Next week the hearing of Joel Tenenbaum, on trial for filesharing some of the RIAA’s most prized possessions, will be webcast live from the courtroom in Boston. Mediapost’s Wendy Davis said, “Given that courts are open to the public, it’s hard to justify the stance [...] Is the flip side of better ad targeting a nosier, intrusive marketer who knows more about us than we care to share? It seems clear now that digital media must confront and resolve its natural tensions with privacy and security concerns before the industry can move forward. The weird science of behavioral tracking now snoops [...] |
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