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GPS enabled iPhone record your locations to a secret file for a year.
Security researchers have discovered that Apple's iPhone keeps track of where you go – and saves every detail of it to a secret file on the device which is then copied to the owner's computer when the two are synchronised.
The file contains the latitude and longitude of the phone's recorded coordinates along with a timestamp, meaning that anyone who stole the phone or the computer could discover details about the owner's movements using a simple program.
Researchers have set up a way for your to check the data on your iPhone.
Warden and Allan have set up a web page which answers questions about the file, and created a simple downloadable application to let Apple users check for themselves what location data the phone is retaining. The Guardian has confirmed that 3G-enabled devices including the iPad also retain the data and copy it to the owner's computer.
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Wired Magazine's article
"Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans’ Credit Cards in Real Time"
This article, called "Hogwatch" (I wonder if that relates to their spending habits or the subjects), details how agencies can write up their own subpoena, etc.,
- The document, obtained by security researcher Christopher Soghoian, explains how so-called “Hotwatch” orders allow for real-time tracking of individuals in a criminal investigation via credit card companies, rental car agencies, calling cards, and even grocery store loyalty programs.
- For credit cards, agents can get real-time information on a person’s purchases by writing their own subpoena, followed up by a order from a judge that the surveillance not be disclosed. Agents can also go the traditional route — going to a judge, proving probable cause and getting a search warrant — which means the target will eventually be notified they were spied on.
- But the Justice Department does not report or make public the number of times it got real time or historic cell phone location information, nor how often it is using these so-called “hotwatch” orders.
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U.S. Policy has been based upon the fact that globalisation and economic growth would ease censorship and repression in Socialist China. But it hasn't. The Chinese continue to expand their Socialist propaganda and censorship. The Google incursion involved a serious cyberattack on the Gmail accounts of human rights activists. Remember that Yahoo had actually helped Chinese authorities to find a dissident which resulted in his arrest and incarceration for 11 years.
The moment is set for confrontation on a global scale about the importance of Freedom of Speech and censorship In this article, "Why America and China will Clash," you can see how the issue of censorship remains with the recent Google confrontation.
The president’s recent set-piece speech on Asia was a classic statement of the case for US engagement with China – complete with the ritualistic assertion that America welcomes China’s rise. But, after being censored by Chinese television in Shanghai and harangued by a junior Chinese official at the Copenhagen climate talks, Barack Obama may be feeling less warm towards Beijing. An early sign that the White House is hardening its policy could come in the next few months, with an official decision to label China a “currency manipulator”.
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Read more... [Censorship as a Key to China Confrontation]
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Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch is the author of numerous books on Radical Islam. He visited mosques in Britain recently and commented upon the chilling effect of the Islamization of Britain on Free Speech.
In fact, when I returned to the George the next night with the producers of the film, we were not allowed entry because the previous night we had been discussing jihad and Islamic supremacism.
Were the proprietors of the George Restaurant hard-line Leftists who viewed jihadists as their allies in the struggle against American imperialism? Or were they frightened by the prospect of the local Muslims, who live in that area in considerable numbers, exacting revenge against the place for daring to host a meeting of the Resistance?
Most likely they were afraid of their own government, which frowns upon those who question the wisdom or viability of the multicultural paradise they are intent upon creating. For when we finally tried to assemble in another place a roundtable of concerned British citizens to discuss the problem of the Islamization of Britain, one by one the British participants dropped out. If they appeared on camera, we were told, the government could and probably would threaten their livelihood.
If the British government makes the stakes too high for its own people to speak publicly against the policies that have brought into Britain thousands of people intent upon destroying the British state and imposing Islamic law, then all is nearly lost.
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Google's search results seem to readily denigrate Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and Buddhism but not Islam?
Religion always causes a stir when it is debated, and Google seems to know it. Google is not taking a fair approach to the way that it handles searches for different religions.
When you search for the major religions of the world, the monotheistic faiths for example, Google serves up suggestions for the search “Christianity is” such as, “a lie,” or false.” Try it on a a number of faiths, and then Islam.
Notice any difference?
Google is systematically blocking, it seems, all search suggestions for Islam. Why? To remove the chance of an adherent of the faith from being offended by a perhaps severe search suggestion? Why not treat all search terms equally?
Given the complete lack of suggestions, not just terms that could be perceived as negative, it seems that Google is covering its, well, behind.
GO TO THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE TO SEE THEIR GRAPHIC.
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