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6 December 2004
Spam Haters Get No Love
Heath’s entry about Lycos’ anti-spam efforts barely had time for the ink to dry before Lycos terminated the program.From the News.com article:
After a week of heavy criticism, Lycos Europe said on Friday that it has thrown in the towel on its plan to launch denial-of-service-like attacks on spammers. In the statement, the company rapped the [...]
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29 November 2004
Tracking Higher Education Students
The Department of Education is proposing a national database containing information on college and university students. The government’s proposal states that, by law, the information would be used for no purpose other than tracking a student’s progress.From the New York Times article:
Supporters say that government oversight of individual student data will make it easier for [...]
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24 November 2004
Chatting with the CIA
News.com is reporting that the CIA is set to launch an Internet chat room surveillance project on January 1, 2005. At least initially, the surveillance will be aimed primarily at IRC servers.
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24 November 2004
Protecting Healthcare Personnel or Spying on Nurses?
Nurses in the Los Angeles Good Samaritan Hospital are the latest healthcare group to discover hidden cameras in the workplace. A nurse at the hospital accidently discovered one of the cameras when she spotted wires and a pea-sized lens in a wall clock. Other cameras were later identified in the hospital’s lounges, a fitness center, [...]
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22 November 2004
Expanding Airport Pat-Downs
The TSA recently modified its guidelines to allow screeners to manually pat-down a person’s entire body, including areas that have traditionally been considered off-limits. The new policy has generated several complaints, primarily from women. The policy requires that the screener be the same gender as the traveler, but some travelers have complained that they were [...]
