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		<title>Trust Us, We&#8217;re From Silicon Valley: Tech Giants Race to Bolster Public Image</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/06/18/tech-titans-jockey-to-be-the-most-transparent-of-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[America’s largest Internet companies are tripping over themselves to bolster their public image following blockbuster disclosures about their role in the U.S. government’s controversial data-gathering program. via NSA Scandal: Tech Titans Jockey to Be the Most Transparent of All &#124; TIME.com.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164955&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Police Use Facial Recognition Software to Identify You</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/17/how-police-use-facial-recognition-software-to-identify-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Fox Van Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bank has just been robbed. The only evidence left behind is grainy security camera footage – detectives have a blurry face, but nothing else to go off of. The photo gets enhanced and run through a database. A few drama-filled moments later, the computer spits out the name and address of a suspect. This may sound like a terrible plot from an episode (every episode?) of CSI: Miami. But it’s also happening every day in police departments across the country. According to the Washington Post, police officers in 26 states are empowered to use facial recognition software in conjunction with a database of driver’s license photos to track down witnesses, verify IDs, and learn more about potential suspects. Over 120 million Americans appear in these facial recognition systems nationwide. It doesn’t matter if you’ve never been arrested for a crime before – if you drive, the police already know what you look like. Show up in the wrong camera and the fuzz will be able to find you within hours. Not all states let the police search through photo databases of private citizens. Oregon, Washington, New York and eight other states restrict police access to face-recognition systems. California, meanwhile, does not have a facial-recognition system in place. Currently, most police officers do not need a warrant to run your picture or likeness through a law enforcement database, so long as doing so has a legitimate purpose. Police can analyze security camera footage stills and even Facebook photos to help crack difficult cases. The American Civil Liberties Union has long opposed facial recognition technology for “its potential to finally and decisively put an end to the possibility of anonymity in public.” Of course, given how muted public response was to revelations that the government is spying on all our Internet communications, America may very well respond to the threat with another big yawn. This article was written by Fox Van Allen and originally appeared on Techlicious. More from Techlicious: How to Stop Verizon from Spying on Your Location Law Would Let Police Search Your Phone After Accidents What You<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164877&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Details Government Requests for Data</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Apple says it received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from U.S. law enforcement for customer data for the six months ended in May. The company, like some other businesses, had asked the U.S government to be able to share how many requests it received related to national security and how it handled them. Those requests were made as part of Prism, the recently revealed highly classified National Security Agency program that seizes records from Internet companies. Prism appears to do what its name suggests. Like a triangular piece of glass, Prism takes large beams of data and helps the government find discrete, manageable strands of information. Prism was revealed this month by The Washington Post and Guardian newspapers, and has touched off the latest round in a decade-long debate over what limits to impose on government eavesdropping, which the Obama administration says is essential to keep the nation safe. Apple Inc. said that between 9,000 and 10,000 accounts or devices were specified in data requests between Dec. 1, 2012, and May 31 from federal, state and local authorities and included both criminal investigations and national security matters. It said that the most common form of request came from police investigating robberies and other crimes, searching for missing children, trying to locate a patient with Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, or hoping to prevent a suicide. The company also made clear how much access the government has. &#8220;We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers, and any government agency requesting customer content must get a court order,&#8221; Apple said in a statement on its website. Apple explained that its legal team evaluates each request and that it delivers &#8220;the narrowest possible set of information to the authorities&#8221; when deemed appropriate. The company said that it has refused some requests in the past. Facebook Inc. has said that it received between 9,000 and 10,000 requests for data from all government agencies in the second half of last year. The social media company said fewer than 19,000<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164827&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ideas for Keeping Your Data Safe from Spying</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/14/ideas-for-keeping-your-data-safe-from-spying/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Raphael Satter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON (AP) &#8212; Phone call logs, credit card records, emails, Skype chats, Facebook message, and more: The precise nature of the NSA&#8217;s sweeping surveillance apparatus has yet to be confirmed. But given the revelations spilling out into the media, there hardly seems a single aspect of daily life that isn&#8217;t somehow subject to spying by the U.S. agency. For some, it&#8217;s a matter of indifference who or what is rifling through their electronic records. Others, mindful of spy agencies&#8217; history of abuse, are more concerned. Here are some basic tips to avoid having your personal life turned into an intelligence report: ENCRYPT YOUR EMAILS Emails sent across the Web are like postcards. In some cases, they&#8217;re readable by anyone standing between you and its recipient. That can include your webmail company, your Internet service provider and whoever is tapped into the fiber optic cable passing your message around the globe &#8211; not to mention a parallel set of observers on the recipient&#8217;s side of the world. To beat the snoops, experts recommend encryption, which scrambles messages in transit, so they&#8217;re unreadable to anyone trying to intercept them. Techniques vary, but a popular one is called PGP, short for &#8220;Pretty Good Privacy.&#8221; PGP is effective enough that the U.S. government tried to block its export in the mid-1990s, arguing that it was so powerful it should be classed as a weapon. Disadvantages: Encryption can be clunky. And to work, both parties have to be using it. USE TOR Like emails, your travels around the Internet can easily be tracked by anyone standing between you and the site you&#8217;re trying to reach. TOR, short for &#8220;The Onion Router,&#8221; helps make your traffic anonymous by bouncing it through a network of routers before spitting it back out on the other side. Each trip through a router provides another layer of protection, thus the onion reference. Originally developed by the U.S. military, TOR is believed to work pretty well if you want to hide your traffic from, let&#8217;s say, eavesdropping by your local Internet<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164713&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google: We’re No NSA Stooge and We’ll Prove It If the Feds Let Us</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/06/11/google-were-no-nsa-stooge-and-well-prove-it-if-the-feds-let-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google has asked the U.S. Department of Justice for permission to publish the number of national-security information requests it receives from the government. via Google Asks to Report NSA Data Requests &#124; TIME.com.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164547&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s Larry Page Denies Cooperation with PRISM</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/07/google-denies-cooperation-with-prism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a blog post titled &#8220;What the&#8230;?,&#8221; Google co-founder Larry Page addresses allegations that the government has direct access to Google&#8217;s servers, saying, &#8220;We had not heard of a program called PRISM until yesterday.&#8221; What the &#8230;? [Official Google Blog]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164276&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PRISM Poll: Do You Care About the Government Mining Internet Data?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post reports that the government is mining data from tech sites, companies and services such as Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, AOL, YouTube, Skype and Apple. The program is reportedly code-named PRISM. According to the article, &#8220;Several companies contacted by The Post said they had no knowledge of the program, did not allow direct government access to their servers and asserted that they responded only to targeted requests for information.&#8221; However, according to apparent National Security Agency slides explaining the program, the above-mentioned companies are on the list and the following types of data can be collected: E-mail Chat &#8212; video, voice Videos Photos Stored data VoIP File transfers Video Conferencing Notifications of target activity &#8212; logins, etc. Online Social Networking details Special Requests Why is this data being collected? According to The Post&#8216;s article: In a statement issued late Thursday, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper said “information collected under this program is among the most important and valuable foreign intelligence information we collect, and is used to protect our nation from a wide variety of threats. The unauthorized disclosure of information about this important and entirely legal program is reprehensible and risks important protections for the security of Americans.” And now the million-dollar question: Do you care that this data is being collected? Simple yes or no answers here &#8212; feel free to elaborate in the comments section below.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164243&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Big Data Turning the Government into Big Brother?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Michael Liedtke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO (AP) &#8212; With every phone call they make and every Web excursion they take, people are leaving a digital trail of revealing data that can be tracked by profit-seeking companies and terrorist-hunting government officials. The revelations that the National Security Agency is perusing millions of U.S. customer phone records at Verizon Communications and snooping on the digital communications stored by nine major Internet services illustrate how aggressively personal data is being collected and analyzed. Verizon is handing over so-called metadata, excerpts from millions of U.S. customer records, to the NSA under an order issued by the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, according to a report in the British newspaper The Guardian. The report was confirmed Thursday by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee. Former NSA employee William Binney told the Associated Press that he estimates the agency collects records on 3 billion phone calls each day. The NSA and FBI appear to be casting an even wider net under a clandestine program code-named &#8220;PRISM&#8221; that came to light in a story posted late Thursday by The Washington Post. PRISM gives the U.S. government access to email, documents, audio, video, photographs and other data that people entrust to some of the world&#8217;s best known companies, according to The Washington Post. The newspaper said it reviewed a confidential roster of companies and services participating in PRISM. The companies included AOL Inc., Apple Inc., Facebook Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc., Skype, YouTube and Paltalk. In statements, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo said they only provide the government with user data required under the law. (Google runs YouTube and Microsoft owns Skype.) AOL and Paltalk didn&#8217;t immediately respond to inquiries from The Associated Press. The NSA isn&#8217;t getting customer names or the content of phone conversations under the Verizon court order, but that doesn&#8217;t mean the information can&#8217;t be tied to other data coming in through the PRISM program to look into people&#8217;s lives, according to experts. Like pieces of a puzzle, the bits and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164239&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PRISM by the Numbers: A Guide to the Government’s Secret Internet Data-Mining Program</title>
		<link>http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/06/06/prism-by-the-numbers-a-guide-to-the-governments-secret-internet-data-mining-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Luckerson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To make all this shadowy surveillance easier to digest, here are the relevant points about the massive data collection. PRISM by the Numbers: A Guide to the Government’s Secret Internet Data-Mining Program &#124; TIME.com.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164231&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Verizon, Telephony Metadata, the National Security Agency and You</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/06/verizon-telephony-metadata-the-national-security-agency-and-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 15:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People are upset (or scared or confused or ambivalent) about the revelation that the National Security Agency is collecting information from Verizon concerning telephone calls made on its network. What does it all mean??? Let&#8217;s dive right in. So the government is listening to all my Verizon calls, right? No. Well, not according to this report that&#8217;s been dug up by The Guardian. What&#8217;s happening, then? Verizon is handing over &#8220;all call detail records or &#8216;telephony metadata&#8217; created by Verizon for communications between the United States and abroad; or wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls.&#8221; They&#8217;re handing over my telephony metadata??? Apparently only if you&#8217;re using Verizon Business Network Services which, according to the New York Times, &#8220;is one of the nation&#8217;s largest telecommunications and Internet providers for corporations.&#8221; Now that I&#8217;m upset about the possibility of my telephony metadata being shared, what is telephony metadata? According to the report: Telephony metadata includes comprehensive communications routing information, including but not limited to session identifying information (e.g., originating and terminating telephone number, International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) number, International Mobile station Equipment Identity (IMEI) number, etc.), trunk identifier, telephone calling card numbers, and time and duration of call. Telephony metadata does not include the substantive content of any communication, as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 2510(8), or the name, address, or financial information of a subscriber or customer. Let&#8217;s break each part down into plain English. Comprehensive communications routing information is a vague term, but it most likely means the general area a call originates from, which Verizon switches or towers handle the call, and where the call ends up connecting. Your office phone, for example, has a telephone cord that connects to a box in some dusty closet in your office space, which may then connect to another box in another dusty closet in the building, which may then connect to another box on the telephone pole, which then connects to Verizon somewhere, who then—I mean, you get the basic idea of how telephone call works, right?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164156&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Much Is Your Facebook Data Worth? A Can of Pepsi, Right?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/04/how-much-is-your-facebook-data-worth-a-can-of-pepsi-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 17:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The concept is simple: Like Pepsi on Facebook and get a free can of Pepsi from a space-age vending machine that doesn&#8217;t accept money &#8212; it only accepts Facebook Likes. It&#8217;s a great marketing stunt, no? Apparently it was rolled out at a Beyoncé concert in Belgium, where the &#8220;free&#8221; Pepsi machine was mobbed by Facebook users in short order. People could link their smartphones to the vending machine to get their loot or, if they didn&#8217;t have smartphones, could actually log into their Facebook accounts directly from the machine&#8217;s touchscreen. Outstanding. &#8220;And thanks to this new way of sampling, we know exactly who liked, tried and enjoyed an ice-cold Pepsi,&#8221; says the narrator in the above video. As CNET&#8217;s Amanda Kooser notes, &#8220;The touchscreen and free sodas are certainly a draw, but the Pepsi Like Machine is all about collecting data. The free samples no longer just disappear into the night, they&#8217;re connected with personal information. It&#8217;s an advertiser&#8217;s dream.&#8221; Pepsi vending machine takes Facebook love, not money [CNET]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163983&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Xbox One Raises the Burden of Privacy Safeguards: 5 Questions for Microsoft</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/22/xbox-one-raises-the-burden-of-privacy-safeguards-5-questions-for-microsoft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 16:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some things you take for granted, like the fact that in Star Trek, there&#8217;s a computer that&#8217;s always listening, always observing, always standing by cataloging data. Who owns that data? Where&#8217;s it stored? Who determines how it&#8217;s used? Who knows. The shows chose to slide by those questions and focus on others. The holodeck was creepy because, whoops, maybe you&#8217;d get trapped, or addicted, or its fictional denizens might inexplicably come to life, not because the computer was collating and archiving everything you did, whether hiking a simulation of the Appalachian trail or indulging some crazy erotic fantasy. Microsoft&#8217;s Xbox One won&#8217;t surround you with holographic fir trees, azaleas and mountain laurels, nor, as far as I know, will it dish out interactive porn. But it is going to be listening &#8212; and capturing data, and transmitting that data back to Microsoft &#8212; in ways no device in your household has ever listened to or observed you before. When Stan Lee wrote &#8220;With great power comes great responsibility&#8221; in Amazing Fantasy #15 back in 1962, he packed a longstanding philosophical notion into six culturally resonant words. Those words couldn&#8217;t be more relevant today, with our lives awash in cloud-connected technology, generating and beaming back mountains of abstractly defined information that&#8217;s quietly sifted by complex machine algorithms and pored over by corporations in search of new ways to further secure footholds in our future lives. So with Xbox One, which promises to streamline how we interact with TV, movies, music and games by introducing always-on, always-connected digital ears and eyes to our living rooms, I&#8217;d argue the burden on Microsoft to safeguard our privacy (and articulate that in a meaningful, non-pandering way) just shot through the roof. Consider what we know about Xbox One for starters: The new console will come with Microsoft&#8217;s refined Kinect sensor, a detachable hammerhead-like camera with microphone that you&#8217;ll probably position somewhere high up in your entertainment center, where its upgraded 1080p widescreen eye can easily sweep your play-space. Unlike the Xbox 360, which functions whether the Kinect camera is attached<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163197&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Essential Steps for Keeping Your Computer Safe</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/15/5-essential-steps-for-keeping-your-computer-safe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 09:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Katharine Knibbs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Computers house so much of our personal data that it&#8217;s essential to set up protective measures in case of cyber attack or mechanical failure. These five must-do steps dramatically increase the odds your computer (and your privacy) will remain safe from the latest online criminal activity and let you salvage your most important files if your computer becomes irretrievably infected. 1. Updates are not optional Updating the software on your system, including the operating system, is an absolute necessity. If you don’t download new versions of programs like Adobe Flash, your computer is more susceptible to malware. Updates to your Windows or Mac operating system help address new threats. To keep your Windows system up to date, you can use Windows Update to make sure you’re getting the necessary adjustments. This is usually set to update automatically, but here&#8217;s how can check to make sure. In Windows 7, click the Start button, type &#8220;windows update&#8221; into the search box. Click on Windows Update in the results (it will be under the Program section of the results.) Click on &#8220;Change Settings&#8221; in the Windows Update window that pops up and then check to see that the Install Updates Automatically option has been selected under Important Updates section. Then choose OK to save your changes. In Windows 8, open the Search charm, enter &#8220;turn automatic updating on or off&#8221; and then click Settings. Microsoft issues new updates every second Tuesday of the month. Mac OS X checks automatically for updates weekly if it has an internet connection. If it finds updates, will it use a pop up window listing the changes and asking you if you are ready to install them (which often requires a computer restart). 2. Uninstall Java Java is a program that websites used to incorporate into their systems, but is rarely used now. Continuous security holes allowing malware to infect computers through Java makes it no longer safe to leave it on your system unless you absolutely need it. Even the Department of Homeland Security has recommended removing Java from your computer or, at<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162793&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple May Be Able to Bypass Your iPhone&#8217;s Password, but There&#8217;s a Waiting List</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/10/apple-may-be-able-to-bypass-your-iphones-password-but-theres-a-waiting-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 22:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Break the law and Apple may follow up by breaking into your iPhone, reports CNET, though if you represent the long arm of the law asking Cupertino to give you a hand (or would the proper term be demanding?), it sounds like you&#8217;ll have to wait in line: up to seven weeks, in seems. Why? Because requests from law enforcement officials to hack into someone&#8217;s iPhone have been so overwhelming that Apple&#8217;s had to create a waiting list to manage them all. Using a highly secure password on your phone (think long and completely random) should keep just about everyone at bay &#8212; but not someone with backdoor access. You knew there were rumors of a backdoor on the iPhone, right? Still, even if those rumors haven&#8217;t been wildly exaggerated, it sounds like there&#8217;s a significant waiting period to enlist Apple&#8217;s help. Cnet unearthed court documents revealing that an agent at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (the ATF) tried for three months last summer to find someone &#8220;with the forensic capabilities to unlock&#8221; an iPhone 4S. Failing that, the agent turned to Apple for help in a case involving a Kentucky man accused of distributing crack cocaine. But according to case opinion filed by U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell, the ATF was &#8220;placed on a waiting list&#8221; by Cupertino &#8212; a waiting list with an up to seven-week delay, says the ATF agent, claiming he was told this by someone in Apple&#8217;s legal department. Cnet isn&#8217;t sure how long the process ultimately took, but notes it &#8220;appears to have been at least four months.&#8221; As Ars Technica notes, it&#8217;s not clear how much information Apple can access by hacking an iPhone (it&#8217;s much easier to get at data replicated to the cloud), but the ATF agent claimed in a sworn statement that Apple &#8220;has the capabilities to bypass the security software&#8221; on the iPhone, and could &#8220;download the contents of the phone to an external memory device&#8221; (like a USB key). Apple, as you&#8217;d expect, isn&#8217;t commenting on the matter, but it&#8217;s interesting<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162573&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What You Need to Know About Mobile Security</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/09/what-you-need-to-know-about-mobile-security/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 09:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Mariella Moon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There might&#8217;ve been a time when you weren&#8217;t overly worried about your mobile devices getting infected by malware &#8211; after all, viruses and spyware were a threat mostly to computers. But as smartphones and tablets become increasingly popular, so do threats that target mobile devices exclusively. According to a 2013 report by Web security provider Blue Coat Systems, an increasing amount of malware is making the jump from desktops to mobile. Security company McAfee also warned in February (PDF) that it detected over 36,000 malware threats, most of that number targeting Android devices. Though it&#8217;s not just Android. If you have a mobile device, you need to know how malware is targeting it and what you can do about it. If malware sneaks on to your phone or tablet, it can install adware, activate SMS Trojans that send out expensive text messages from your phone without you knowing, and even let othersspy on your emails, texts and web browsing. How malware infects your mobile devices The most common way malware infects a phone or a tablet is through downloaded apps masquerading as a popular title or as a useful utility program. You&#8217;d think you wouldn&#8217;t fall victim to that if you&#8217;re careful, but some malicious programs are very well disguised as legitimate apps. In 2012, for instance, fake Angry Birds and Assassin&#8217;s Creed apps hit Google Play, and many Android users unknowingly downloaded the malicious programs that charged them a premium rate &#8211; roughly $22 &#8211; for each app. That modus operandi, however, might soon change. Security researcher Chris Astacio warns that it&#8217;s very likely for attackers to start tweaking mobile malware to infect devices via web pages instead of through apps. At a presentation at the RSA Security conference in San Francisco in late February, he revealed that software that exploits vulnerabilities on computers has been starting to look out for web hits made by iPhones, iPads and Android devices. Which indicates that, although it&#8217;s not yet an actual threat, this method might be used to attack mobile devices in the future. Abundance of Android<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162424&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on Facebook Home Privacy</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/06/more-on-facebook-home-privacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Facebook announced its Facebook Home interface for Android phones on Thursday, there was immediate concern &#8212; especially from GigaOm&#039;s Om Malik &#8212; about the privacy implications of a Facebook app that&#039;s always on and which might be able to monitor your location at any time. Facebook has now responded: Since the announcement of Home yesterday, we&#039;ve received a few questions about how Home works with privacy. Home is software that turns your Android phone into a great, living, social phone. Home doesn&#039;t change anything related to your privacy settings on Facebook, and your privacy controls work the same with Home as they do everywhere else on Facebook. It&#039;s pretty standard: Facebook has an event to announce something new and doesn&#039;t really address privacy issues during its announcement. Which causes people to fear the worst. And even once Facebook has clarified matters, it&#039;s tough to totally eliminate suspicions which some people might have, once they&#8217;ve had them. I think everyone involved might be happier if Facebook made a good-faith effort to anticipate what sort of concerns a new feature or product might prompt &#8212; and then forthrightly discussed them at the original event rather than after the fact.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159724&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Privacy Settings Guide</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/04/facebook-privacy-settings-guide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 04:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Katharine Knibbs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first thing you have to realize about Facebook: nothing you put on there is truly private. Yes, you can control how users see or don’t see your profile. But every time you ‘Like’ a product or even look at a page, the company itself is taking note. This doesn’t mean that someday Facebook will malevolently release your every click to the world. But it’s also not your private diary, and what you do on the website gets collected and cataloged. You should always keep that in mind when you’re using the service. That said, Facebook is a great way to stay in touch and share small and big moments with family, friends and assorted other connections. The key is making sure you’re presenting the most appropriate profile possible to each &#8220;Friend.&#8221; So let’s go over the various settings you can change to ensure pictures of your wacky jaunt to Vegas don’t end up at the top of your boss&#8217;s News Feed. Facebook  has retooled its privacy settings time and time again to make them more user friendly, so customizing your settings is a fairly straightforward procedure. It’s an important one, though, since Facebook tends to automatically opt you in to new information sharing unless you go through and manually adjust the settings to the level of transparency you want. Check your current basic privacy settings When you log into Facebook, in the top right hand corner there are two different ways you can assess your privacy settings. If you push the lock icon, you open a drop-down menu that shows “Privacy Shortcuts.” From here, you can make a few key changes to your settings. Who can see your future posts? In this section you can limit exactly who sees your updates. That may be a little too restrictive, but at the very least click on the Custom button in that section and make sure your posts are being posted Publicly (unless you want them to be.) You can also place your Facebook Friends in lists and restrict your posts to those<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159510&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Being Watched While You Watch TV: What&#8217;s So Creepy?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/13/being-watched-while-you-watch-tv-whats-so-creepy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intel&#8216;s announcement that it&#8217;ll sell an Internet television device later this year isn&#8217;t much of a surprise given the rumor mill&#8217;s lead-up, nor is it particularly thrilling, given its backward-looking lack of a la carte programming and fuzzy intimations about channel curation, which may or may not amount to better deals than various cable or satellite ones. But here&#8217;s the part you probably weren&#8217;t expecting: Intel&#8217;s device will also be a camera capable of watching you as you watch TV. No, not just a camera you might use to video-chat with friends and family or wave your hands in the air like Mickey in Fantasia to issue commands, but a synthetic eye into your living room that Intel will reportedly use to pick you (and others) out of a lineup so it can further annoy us with targeted advertising or &#8220;personalize&#8221; our experience. In that sense, you could think of it as a kind of first step toward the giant digital screens Tom Cruise wanders by in Minority Report &#8211; the ones that notice who he is, then start hawking products like telepathic barkers. (No doubt advertisers saw that movie and had exactly the opposite reaction the rest of us did.) (MORE: Intel Confirms TV Plans, Won’t Exactly Kill Cable Bundles) Intel has stressed in interviews that the camera&#8217;s ability to watch you will be optional &#8212; that you can close a shutter if you&#8217;d rather not be scrutinized. But the timing of the announcement is intriguing because of what Microsoft appears to be up to with the next version of its Xbox Kinect camera-based motion detection system. Last November, the company filed a patent for a camera that&#8217;d be capable of scanning a group of people watching a video. Kinect isn&#8217;t named in the patent specifically, but it&#8217;s not stretching to see the dotted line. Assuming that Kinect link, implementing the patent &#8212; for &#8220;content distribution regulation by viewing user&#8221; &#8212; as described could have interesting implications. Imagine a scenario in which you&#8217;ve paid for up to four people to watch a movie, but<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156579&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the FTC&#8217;s Report That Flunks App Companies on Child Privacy Isn&#8217;t Enough</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/12/12/why-the-ftcs-report-that-flunks-app-companies-on-child-privacy-isnt-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a sobering report on Monday about the state of app privacy. And not just any apps &#8212; specifically mobile ones used by kids. The report, titled &#8220;Mobile Apps for Kids: Disclosures Still Not Making the Grade,&#8221; looked at Google Play and Apple&#8216;s App Store and found that a majority of vendors don&#8217;t divulge information to parents about what they&#8217;re collecting from kids that use these apps, how they&#8217;re sharing this data and who has access to it. A &#8220;majority&#8221;? Try 80%. The FTC found that only 20% of the apps tested disclosed &#8220;any information&#8221; at all about their privacy mechanics. Even more unsettling, the FTC found that 60% of the apps tested transmit information to someone else &#8212; occasionally the app developer, but more often &#8220;to an advertising network, analytics company, or other third party.&#8221; The FTC theorizes this could mean third parties are building detailed behavioral profiles of children. (The only thing off about this theory, in my view, is the FTC&#8217;s tentative use of the word &#8220;could.&#8221;) See the pattern here? Stop me if any of this surprises you: The FTC found 58% of the apps it tested contain advertisements, and that only 15% revealed the present of advertising on their download page. Twenty-two percent of apps tested included links to social networking services, only 9% mentioned that prior to downloading and fully 17% allowed kids to purchase virtual goods (prices ranged from $1 to $30), while providing few or simply unclear guidelines about how these in-app purchases worked. Summary: It&#8217;s the wild west in app-land when it comes to privacy metrics, especially if you&#8217;re a kid, and most app-makers don&#8217;t offer even minimal guidelines for decision-makers like parents. It&#8217;s not the first time the FTC&#8217;s released such a report, which makes it doubly troubling. In February 2012, the FTC released its first look at privacy in children&#8217;s apps, a staff report titled &#8220;Mobile Apps for Kids: Current Privacy Disclosures Are Disappointing.&#8221; The report concluded that &#8220;neither the app stores nor the app developers<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=153206&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Want to Keep Your Teens (or Employees) from Texting Behind the Wheel?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/12/05/want-to-keep-your-teens-or-employees-from-texting-behind-the-wheel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve probably heard of mobile phone jamming tech &#8212; blocking a cellphone from communicating with a signal tower. Active blocking is illegal in the U.S., though you&#8217;ve probably bumped into passive blocking, whether intentional or no, where, say, a building&#8217;s construction materials inhibit or completely deep six your cellphone&#8217;s signal (this usually happens to me in hospitals). But have you heard about texting-blocking? I hadn&#8217;t until this week, after a company called Access2Communications Inc. contacted about TextBuster, a small $179 piece of hardware you place in your vehicle, just under the dash, that thwarts texting. In fact it goes one further and sever&#8217;s the phones data connection entirely, shutting off email and any other sort of Internet functionality. The company says there&#8217;s no monthly fee for its product, and that you can use as many phones as you like with a single device. A quick overview of the problem the company&#8217;s hoping to mitigate: According to a National Safety Council report, in 2010, 21% of all crashes (1.1 million total) involved people talking on handheld or hands-free cellphones. On top of that, an additional 3% or more (at least 160,000) crashes involved texting. And the rates have gone up since: So far in 2012, the NSC estimates that a crash involving &#8220;drivers using cellphones and texting&#8221; occurs every 24 seconds, thus an estimated over 1.2 million have occurred as this story&#8217;s going live. Thus TextBuster, though it isn&#8217;t a jammer in the traditional sense &#8212; it doesn&#8217;t actually &#8220;jam&#8221; a phone within range. Instead, it uses a Bluetooth module to identify a pre-paired device running the TextBuster app, which in turn disables all the data functions, including text messaging, email and Internet access. You can still make or receive calls, of course, or use GPS for mapping purposes. I suspect an increasing number of people fiddle with GPS apps while driving, which &#8212; depending on the app and where the device is situated &#8212; poses its own distracted driving risks. When I asked Barta about GPS distraction, he said the company &#8220;felt taking away navigation<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=152820&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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