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Audacity’s Privacy Policy Doesn’t Make It ‘Spyware’ Because Everything Is Spyware Now

Gizmodo

Then came a new contributor license agreement. Ever since Audacity was acquired by tech conglomerate Muse Group in late April , fans of the free-to-use audio tool have been raising hell about some of the changes made to the software. First came plans to add telemetry capture. Then last week came a privacy policy update… Read more.

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Technology News and Hot Topics

CTOvision

Facial recognition software that can identify suspects, databases that can be tapped to track suspects’ movements and locations, automatic license plate … Read more on Los Angeles Times. Regin, new computer spyware, discovered by Symantec. Police turning to cutting-edge fingerprint technology.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge Worker: Google Apps Replacing SharePoint? Ummmm, no.

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

Licensing challenges make this more difficult than it ought to be for SharePoint/Groove. I run a feet-on-the-street IT MSP which serves this market so I'm closely familiar with how many valuable documents of financial data are just left lying in inboxes and temp folders on someone's Spyware infested home computer.

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The massive Twitter hack could be a global security crisis

The Verge

The finding has made it easier for the CIA to damage adversaries’ critical infrastructure, such as petrochemical plants, and to engage in the kind of hack-and-dump operations that Russian hackers and WikiLeaks popularized, in which tranches of stolen documents or data are leaked to journalists or posted on the internet. Sensor Tower).

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