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By Dan Goodin in San Francisco
Published Monday 4th August 2008 19:55 GMT
A financial analyst for Countrywide Home Financial, one of the world’s biggest and most troubled mortgage lenders, has been arrested and charged with stealing personal information concerning a breathtaking number of the company’s customers.

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Posted by kdawson on Wednesday August 06, @08:06AM
jafo alerts us to an SFGate story reporting that the lost “Clear” Program laptop has turned up in the same office from which it was reported missing, but not in its previous location. “A preliminary investigation shows that the information was not compromised… The computer held [...]

hat tip ~ Reality Redux
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EPIC Urges Scrutiny of Proposed Federal Profiling Agency. In a letter (pdf) to a House [...]

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By Maria Glod
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, August 3, 2008; A05
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is calling on “eggheads” to help the military unravel questions about the recruitment of terrorists, the resurgence of the Taliban and messages delivered in militant Muslim religious schools.
Many eggheads are wary.
The Pentagon’s $50 million Minerva Research Initiative, named after the Roman [...]

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A report said the MoD needed to improve some areas of data protection
More than 100 USB memory sticks, some containing secret information, have been lost or stolen from the Ministry of Defence since 2004, it has emerged.
The department also admitted that more than 650 laptops had been stolen over the past four years - nearly [...]

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Danger Room
Noah Shachtman
U.S. forces’ use of social science to pacify war zones has become one of the hottest — and most controversial topics — in the military and academic communities. But long before the Army started embedding Human Terrain Teams in its Afghan combat units, Russia was “using social scientists to inform war policy [...]

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Published: July 15, 2008 at 1:40 PM
LONDON, July 15 (UPI) — The British information commissioner says government plans to collect data on every phone call made and e-mail message sent in the country goes too far.

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from Nukes & Spooks
Warren Strobel
An item in the Washington Post business section two weeks ago caught our attention. It was about an intelligence agency that is building a new headquarters right on the campus of the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. (A place one of us is familiar with, if for no other [...]

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By Kat Glass | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission indicated Wednesday that it would leave it to data-mining Web companies and Internet marketers to decide how best to protect users’ privacy.

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Posted by timothy on Monday June 30, @01:06PM
mattnyc99 writes
“The FBI has confirmed to Popular Mechanics that it’s not only adding palm prints to its criminal records, but preparing to balloon its repository of photos, which an agency official says ‘could be the basis for our facial recognition.’ It’s all part of a new biometric [...]