Tag: BIGBROTHER

In the town of Riverhead, NY, you apparently need a special permit to have a swimming pool. Not everybody with a pool has a permit, though, and the town has been using Google Earth to find people's unapproved pools. The city council recently decided to cancel this Google Earth spy mission, though, and only prosecute when pool violations can be seen from public areas. In some cases, satellite ...

Free stuff inside! Read on for details. I love applications that let me figure out where my time went; I was supposed to be so productive today! How come all that remains of the day is just images of LOLCats burning my retinas? SnapLogger is a program which helps answer questions such as this in the most graphical way possible: it records periodic screenshots (every 30 seconds, by default) and ...

Facebook continues to expand toward becoming something like its own parallel web, with several new features introduced today, and several more to be revealed at the upcoming f8 Conference. Starting today, your Facebook interests, hometown, and other info are turning into Pages on Facebook. You'll be asked to approve connections to all of them when you sign in. It's like "becoming a fan," except ...

A while back, we told you how Amazon revealed its ability to delete a book from all Kindle devices, even after customers had purchased it. In a somewhat poetic twist, the deleted book that brought this to everyone's attention was George Orwell's 1984, and bloggers were quick to liken Amazon's activities to those of 1984's Big Brother. Now, to smooth things over with customers, Amazon is offering ...

Think your fake registration details are keeping you anonymous on internet sites? Think again. Microsoft is hard at work developing software which can, "accurately guess your name, age, gender and potentially even your location, by analyzing telltale patterns in your web browsing history" according to a week old article at New Scientist. Privacy advocates are not amused, and neither are ...