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Facebook Sharing Private Comments, Posts With Politico

If you so much as mention a Presidential candidate on Facebook, your post or comment (even if it’s private) will be shared with Politico: [E]very post and comment — both public and private — by a U.S. user that mentions a presidential candidate’s name will be fed through a sentiment analysis tool that spits out [...]

Kill This Bill

Data Retention

Much like bills named for dead children, there’s a very high likelihood that any bill with “protecting children” and/or “pornographers” in the title is a) a very bad idea, b) a very stupid idea, c) of dubious Constitutionality, or, as here, d) all of the above.

Texas House Passes Bill Banning TSA “Grope” Searches

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Texas may well become the first state to take legislative action against the intrusive airport searches that have been in the news since November: The Texas House of Representatives late on Thursday approved a bill that would make invasive pat-downs at Texas airports a crime, after a former Miss USA said she felt “molested” at [...]

No Matter Where You Go, There Your iPhone Is

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Why, yes, my iPhone has indeed been tracking me since last summer.