November 15, 2012, 12:05 AM
A little-known privacy office in the Department of Homeland Security has given its stamp of approval to an ongoing initiative aimed at monitoring social media sites for emerging threats. Congress created the department’s privacy office in 2003 to review major initiatives and databases...
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September 12, 2012, 12:05 AM
Not all of Facebook’s 900 million global users are pleased with the mega-site’s slow lurch toward what it calls Timeline, a new profile format that displays photos, updates, wall messages and more based on when the material was posted over the lifetime of the user. Internet...
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September 4, 2012, 12:05 AM
Private tech firms have found a new market for their sophisticated software capable of analyzing vast segments of the Internet – local police departments looking for ways to pre-empt the next mass shooting or other headline-grabbing event. Twitter, Facebook and other popular sites are 24...
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February 8, 2012, 12:05 AM
After stalling two measures in Congress that would have made it easier for law enforcement to go after alleged copyright scofflaws, digital rights activists might now be turning their attention to a lesser-noticed bill aimed at requiring Internet companies to store identifying information...
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January 24, 2012, 12:05 AM
Hollywood is threatening politicians with one thing they hold very dear: campaign cash. As anti-piracy legislation stalled in Congress last week, the movie industry's top lobbyist, former U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd, warned Democrats not to count on Hollywood money if they turn their backs on the...
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May 27, 2011, 12:05 AM
A Northern California high school district is no longer restricting access to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy websites after the American Civil Liberties Union recently intervened on behalf of a student. "I wanted to start a gay-straight alliance at my...
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December 13, 2010, 12:05 AM
Never let it be said that the $160-plus million that Meg Whitman spent on her record-shattering gubernatorial campaign didn't bear at least some returns: If the good folks at Google are to be believed, that money elevated her to a level of political celebrity that even national GOP headline-...
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November 22, 2010, 12:06 AM
More households use high-speed Internet service than ever before, but socioeconomic and racial differences significantly determine who has a fast connection and who does not. A new report from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce found the gap between low-income and high-income households ranges from...
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June 1, 2010, 5:26 AM
Interested in what people are looking at on the Web right now versus what the media is serving up? Check out Zoe Fraade-Blanar's tool, called Current, that chart's the last 24 hours of memes using "a combination of data from Google Hot Trends and cross-references via Google News,...
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