Category: Privacy, Surveillance, & Security

Surprise! Facebook apps are sharing users’ personal info with advertisers. How many more ways can it violate your privacy?

Source: Is Facebook evil or merely incompetent? | InfoWorld

the FBI tricked some guy into thinking he was helping al-Qaeda plan an attack on Washington, DC’s subway system.

Source: The war on commuters: Panic! We got our man | The Economist

How foiling a terrorist plot leads to increased insecurity and local police intrusion into normal people’s lives.