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The Orwell Awards - Corporate Spying Archives
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InfraGard: HOW The FBI Deputizes Business
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Apple's iTunes Store records the email address you have registered with iTunes in every file you download.
3
Innocent people are getting letters from lawyers claiming they should pay for downloading films they've never seen.
4
President-elect Obama's cell phone records were improperly breached by employees of Verizon Wireless, who were put on immediate leave with pay.
5
Possible 8 million victims in the world's biggest cyber heist.
6
Laptop Sold on eBay Exposes 1M Royal Bank of Scotland, American Express and NatWest Customers.
7
Canadian group charges that Facebook violates privacy laws.
8
Philip Morris, the nation’s largest tobacco company, pays for secret research at Virginia Commonwealth University.
9
UK shops secretly track customers via mobile phone.
10
Fourth-largest cable system in the United States planning to keep track of every website visited on its high speed network.
11
UK workers accused of theft or damage could soon find themselves blacklisted on a register to be shared among employers.
12
UK supermarket chain is introducing face recognition cameras to prevent staff mistakenly selling cigarettes and alcohol to minors.
13
Woman fired at Tim Hortons for giving a free Timbit to the child of a regular customer.
14
Amex routinely bills charges to closed credit card accounts.
15
Hacker testifies News Corp unit hired him.
16
Teenage Hacker takes down MediaDefender, the online guard dog of the entertainment world, a $15 million company, and posts a half-year's worth of their internal emails online.
17
Recording Industry Association of America goes after a 10-year-old girl.
18
British Telecom admitted "spying" on its broadband customers.
19
Internet Providers Quietly Test Expanded Tracking of Web Use to Target Advertising
20
German retail chain accused of using Stasi tactics to spy on staff.
21
British company makes a camera that "sees" under clothes.
22
Over 50% of companies fire workers for e-mail or internet abuse.
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AT&T and Other Internet Service Providers May Be Getting Ready to Filter Content
24
Microsoft Seeks To Patent System To Spy On Workers
25
The First Major US Film Made Entirely With Surveillance Footage
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