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http://www.gigasciencejournal.com/content/1/1/4

What #Surveillance Valley knows about you: A LOT – eg info sold to insurers on recent weight gains & illegal drug use
http://pando.com/2013/12/22/a-peek-into-surveillance-valley

What’s a unique ID for a person & how companies are hacking into your browser history to construct one. Uniquely Me!
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/uniquely-me

Interesting mention of PGP

Russia Plans to Extend #Snowden Asylum. It says ironically “US has created a Big Brother system” nyti.ms/1eNfw9C HT @startpointmedia

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/25/world/europe/russia-plans-to-extend-snowden-asylum-lawmaker-says.html

MT @davidlazer So many #NSA elves that deconfliction needed to avoid collisions. Spies Infiltrate… Online Games
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/world/spies-dragnet-reaches-a-playing-field-of-elves-and-trolls.html

QT: {{”
But for all their enthusiasm — so many C.I.A., F.B.I. and Pentagon spies were hunting around in Second Life, the document noted, that a “deconfliction” group was needed to avoid collisions — the
intelligence agencies may have inflated the threat.
“}}

#NSA May Have Penetrated Internet Cable Links: The key to #Prism seems to be tapping phone company communications
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/26/technology/a-peephole-for-the-nsa.html

The end of #anonymity: suggests ubiquitous #biometrics (eg in 5s) may improve online behavior
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029400.700-the-end-of-anonymity-a-way-to-stop-online-abuse.html via @pro2rat #privacy

The Secret Web: Rather scary account of the Silk Road explaining its use of #bitcoin & #tor
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2156271,00.html via @smthwrld #privacy

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2156271,00.html

http://rt.com/news/genome-british-project-data-376

How America’s Top Tech Companies Created the #Surveillance State: Subtle pressure created an intel-industrial complex
http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/how-america-s-top-tech-companies-created-the-surveillance-state-20130725