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Spy Agencies Tap Data Streaming From Phone Apps
When a smartphone user opens Angry Birds, the popular game application, and starts slinging birds at chortling green pigs, spies could be lurking in the background...
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Big Web Crash in China: Experts Suspect Great Firewall
A massive Internet failure in China on Tuesday prevented most of the country's 500 million Internet users from accessing websites for up to eight hours.
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kraine Tracks Protesters Through Cellphones
The Ukrainian government used telephone technology to pinpoint the locations of cellphones in use near clashes between riot police officers and protesters early...
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Why Bitcoin Matters
A mysterious new technology emerges, seemingly out of nowhere, but actually the result of two decades of intense research and development by nearly anonymous researchers...
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N.s.a. Devises Radio Pathway Into Computers
The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the United States to conduct surveillance on those...
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The Next Data Privacy Battle May Be Waged Inside Your Car
Cars are becoming smarter than ever, with global positioning systems, Internet connections, data recorders and high-definition cameras.
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Viewing Where the Internet Goes
Will 2014 be the year that the Internet is reined in?
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Reading Your Palm For Security's Sake
They aren't taking any chances at Barclays Bank in Britain.
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Into the Bitcoin Mines
On the flat lava plain of Reykjanesbaer, Iceland, near the Arctic Circle, you can find the mines of Bitcoin.
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Bitcoin Collides With Government Concerns
If Bitcoin is a bubble, as its critics contend, it is showing signs of deflation.
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Officials Say .s. May Never Know Extent of Snowden's Leaks
American intelligence and law enforcement investigators have concluded that they may never know the entirety of what the former National Security Agency contractor...
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Tech Giants Issue Call For Limits on Government Surveillance of Users
Eight major technology companies on Monday called on the Obama administration and Congress to set limits on government surveillance activities.
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Willis Ware, Who Helped Build Blueprint For Computer Design, Dies at 93
Willis H. Ware, an electrical engineer who played an important role in defining the importance of personal privacy in the information age, has died at age 93.
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Nest's Tony Fadell on Smart Objects, and the Singularity of Innovation
Tony Fadell is the founder and chief executive of Nest, a company that is trying to bring a high-end technology experience to some of the most prosaic areas of...
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Of Fact, Fiction and Defibrillators
In a chilling episode of "Homeland" last year, a terrorist killed the vice president with a fiendishly clever weapon: a remote-control device that attacked the...
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The Information-Gathering Paradox
Consumer trust is a vital currency for every big Internet company, which helps to explain why the giants of Silicon Valley have gone to great lengths in recent...
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Contractors See Weeks of Work on Health Site
Federal contractors have identified most of the main problems crippling President Obama's online health insurance marketplace, but the administration has been slow...
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Privacy Fears Grow as Cities Increase Surveillance
Cities across the United States increasingly are using big data for law enforcement, raising concerns about government tracking the details of citizens' lives.
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