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Apple nixes over 250 apps that have been snooping on users

2015-10-20 19:04:43| Extremetech

The company has strict privacy guidelines for its platform, and now some apps that have messed with the rules are being kicked out of the App Store.

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Residents Sue Seattle to Block City Haulers From Snooping Into Trash

2015-07-20 04:37:00| Waste Age

Reuters Seattle is violating constitutional guarantees of privacy and due process in allowing garbage collectors to inspect refuse bins to gauge a home's compliance with the city's strict trash-sorting rules, residents said in a lawsuit this week. read more

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Government snooping through your emails without a warrant: Not just the NSA

2015-04-19 07:12:43| IT Services - Topix.net

The SEC and IRS, among other government agencies, love, love, love administrative subpoenas to snoop through emails without probable cause. Techdirt writes: The story that we keep hearing is that two government agencies in particular really like ECPA's outdated system: the IRS and the SEC .

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Wikileaks Steamed Over Google's Lengthy Silence on FBI Snooping

2015-01-27 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld

Google may have contributed to violating the First Amendment rights of three journalists working for WikiLeaks two and a half years ago, when it turned over to the FBI all their email, subscriber information and metadata. Google informed the journalists about its actions last month, saying that it had been unable to do so earlier due to a gag order.

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