Pa. city blankets streets with security cameras

Horses drawing buggies regularly clop down the roads approaching Lancaster, a peaceful city in the heart of Amish country that had only three murders last year and relatively low crime.

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Wiretapping Skype calls: virus eavesdrops on VoIP

Some computer viruses have a crude but scary ability to spy on people by logging every keystroke they type. Now hackers and potentially law enforcement have another weapon: a virus that can eavesdrop on voice conversations that go over computers instead of a regular phone line.

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Tennessee fires trooper accused of snooping

A Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper accused of conducting unauthorized background checks on nearly 200 people, including two journalists and a country music figure, was fired Wednesday.

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Tenn. trooper accused of snooping on media, musician

A Tennessee state trooper was suspended Tuesday after investigators said he used his position to conduct 182 background checks — at least some of them unauthorized — on people including two journalists and a country music figure.

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Report: More UCLA staff saw celebs' health records

More than 120 workers at a Los Angeles hospital looked at celebrities' medical records and other personal information without permission between January 2004 and June 2006 — nearly double the number initially reported earlier this year, according to a state report.

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Report: UCLA File Snooping an Old Issue

UCLA Medical Center has known since at least 1995 that its workers were improperly looking at confidential medical files of such prominent patients as Tom Cruise, a former employee claims.

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Worker Snooping on Customer Data Common

A landlord snooped on tenants to find out information about their finances. A woman repeatedly accessed her ex-boyfriend's account after a difficult breakup. Another obtained her child's father's address so she could serve him court papers.

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Britain's Oxford Using Facebook to Snoop

For students at the University of Oxford, Facebook is a great way to keep posted on gossip and parties. For campus officials, it's a new way to find — and fine — troublemakers.

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Swedes Revolt Against Online Snooping

Want to know how much your boss earns? Or whether your daughter's fiance is in debt? For Swedes, it takes just a few clicks on the Internet to find out.

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The latest report from the Interception of Communications Commissioner affords us a glimpse of the true scale of official surveillance in modern Britain.

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Residents are now being offered up to 500 pounds if they snoop on others.

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The Chinese government has denied having any relationship with "a malware-based cyber espionage network" called GhostNet, an operation revealed Sunday by a Toronto-based research team.

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When seeing this Mother on the Tyra show I had to wonder what other Parents think about this way of dealing with a teenage daughter. Would You read your child's diary or listen in on phone calls ? When do you think this Mother went to far ?

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A council used anti-terror powers to spy on paperboys to check whether a village newsagent had not obtained work permits for them.

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Invented by American computer scientists during the 1970s, the Internet has been embraced around the globe. During the network's first three decades, most Internet traffic flowed through the United States.

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Is this really that common? I've never even thought about it.Can't help checking your partner's text messages on the sly? You're not alone, with an Australian survey showing one in three mobile phone users are text message snoops, and the consequences can often be heart-breaking. …

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Internet service provider Embarq eavesdropped on the web surfing habits of 26,000 customers in Kansas without notifying them personally, as part of its test of new, controversial advertising technology that profiles users, the company told federal lawmakers Wednesday.

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ONE in three information technology professionals abuses administrative passwords to access confidential data such as colleagues' salary details, personal emails or board-meeting minutes, according to a survey.

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Sweden this evening voted in favour of its controversial snoop law, after the proposal was amended earlier today.

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One in three information technology professionals abuses administrative passwords to access confidential data such as colleagues' salary details, personal emails or board-meeting minutes, according to a survey.

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U.S. business interests at risk from domestic spying Commentary: Snooping trend is a danger to us all

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...last week AT&T announced that it is seriously considering plans to examine all the traffic it carries for potential violations of U.S. intellectual property laws.

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In addition to listening in on phone calls, the National Security Agency has also been monitoring the Internet traffic of US residents, according to a retired AT&T engineer.

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That, at least, is the fear of French government defence experts, who have advised against their use by officials in France's corridors of power, reportedly to avoid snooping by US intelligence agencies and the loss of commercial and other secrets.

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Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The FBI is guilty of "serious misuse" of the power to secretly obtain private information under the Patriot Act, a government audit said Friday.

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A bill introduced to the US House of Representatives would require ISPs to record all users' surfing activity, IM conversations and email traffic indefinitely.

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This is a great new website (to this blog) on the US government and freedom issues. Read all about the US government's domestic spying campaign.

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Excerpt : "I AM continually shocked and appalled at the details people voluntarily post online about themselves." So says Jon Callas, chief security officer at PGP, a Silicon Valley-based maker of encryption software.

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In this era when the federal government says it must take steps to combat and prevent terrorism, the knee-jerk assumption might be to believe that the American public supports governmental surveillance steps.

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Heat is on to end surveillance of radical Islamists and others inside the U.S., who include U.S. citizens. So what will Americans think when the "eavesdropping" gets shut down and a major city goes up in smoke? Who has to feel the heat next?

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