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Big Brother Police Device Takes All Call, Text, Email Data for LIFE!

Detectives can access and store call history, texts and list of contacts of anyone... more

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Cell phones to begin receiving severe weather alerts in first nationwide system

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http://www.thetechnofiles.com/2012/02/05/sony-ericsson-xperia-play-review/

Kyle from TheTechnoFiles.com reviews the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play

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Texting while walking: A dangerous game?

Walking the streets texting isn’t much safer than walking them with a blindfold... more

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Cell Phones Are Tracking Devices That Governments, Police, Big Corporations And Stalkers Can Use To Easily Track Your Movements

If you regularly carry a cell phone around with you, you might as well say goodbye to... more

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Sony takes over Sony Ericsson

Sony is taking full control of mobile phone joint venture Sony Ericsson, buying out... more

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Dems mum on Obama proposal on debt collectors pursuing money owed government

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Massive HTC Android Vulnerability Leaves Security Expert "Speechless"

"I am quite speechless right now," begins Artem Russakovskii over at Android... more

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Loud Rude And Ignorant Woman In Vegas Escorted Off Plane (VIDEO)

Did you know that being loud, rude and especially ignorant will get you the attention... more

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ACLU Wins a Round in the Battle Against Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking

"Today the ACLU won a significant victory in our battle to ensure that cell phones don’t become Big Brother tracking devices. Following a four-year fight, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to comply with our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and turn over the names and docket numbers in numerous cases where the government accessed cell phone location data without a warrant.

This fight began in 2007 when we filed the request seeking the policies and procedures used by DOJ in obtaining cell phone data and other information. Everyone acknowledges that the government has a right to keep the details of particular investigations secret, but when the government adopts whole new policies that affect our society’s privacy rights in very broad ways — that is something that should be decided democratically, and that can’t happen if we don’t even know what’s happening.

So when the government refused to respond adequately to our request, we filed a lawsuit along with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Among the documents we sought were the case names and docket numbers for cases where individuals were criminally prosecuted after cell phone location data was accessed without a warrant. U.S. District Judge James Robertson ordered the DOJ to produce the information, at least in cases that ended in a conviction or guilty plea. The DOJ appealed that result, and today, the appeals court upheld the lower court's ruling, ordering the DOJ to make that information public. (We also want information on cases where the defendant was not convicted; the court sent that question back to the District Court so it remains unresolved.)

A related case is heading for the Supreme Court — it's about whether police need a warrant before planting a GPS device to track a person's car. If the government wins that case, it will become much harder to prevent it from using our cell phones in the same way."

More at link. And this will be important to follow.

By the way, I got word of this via the handy tech newsletters I get emailed from CNET. I recommend those updates even for those who, like me, are not real techies. They are very helpful regarding many aspects of the tech tools we have around us, whether we use them or not."Today the ACLU won a significant victory in our battle to ensure that cell... more

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Driving and Parking with Smart Meters

How many times has this happened to you? After spending 30 minutes circling the block... more

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Look deeper into the Google/Moto lovefest

Upon further review we take a closer look at what is at stake with the possible merger... more

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USA PATRIOT ACT makes your cell phone a tracking weapon - National Human Rights | Examiner.com

If you own and carry a cell phone, criminals know where you are all the time - when to... more

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Intrepid Imbecile Lodges Himself in Storm Drain Chasing Lost Phone [Video]

Jared was just minding his own business, when he claims he was attacked by a roving... more

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Angry texter leaves hilarious voicemail after being kicked out of a cinema

After being kicked out of the Alamo Drafthouse, which has a strict no-phone-use rule,... more

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Chris Martin: beastlier

"The Pillsbury Dough Boy celebrated his fifty-first birthday. Sadly, he never... more

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World Heath Organization Declares That Cell Phones May Cause Cancer

Today the World Health Organization announced that radiation from cell phones could possibly cause cancer as they categorized exposure to electromagnetic fields alongside known carcinogenic hazards such as lead, auto exhaust, and the pesticide DDT. The announcement is based upon a series of studies that have been peer-reviewed by a group of 31 scientists from 14 countries working with the International Agency for Research on Cancer. The team found that non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation emitted by cell phones is “possibly carcinogenic to humans – a reversal of the WHO’s previous assertions that no adverse health effects have been established for mobile phone use.

Over 5 billion cell phones are currently in service, so the WHO’s classification of cell phones as “possibly carcinogenic” is a chilling reminder that we shouldn’t take the safety of commonplace technology for granted. Although the WHO has not conclusively declared that cell phones cause cancer, enough peer-reviewed research has been gathered to raise a red flag and warrant further studies.

Cell phones emit a form of radiofrequency electromagnetic waves – the same type of radiation emitted by a microwave oven, although phones operate at a much lower frequency. Much of the difficulty in establishing causality between cancer and mobile phones has to do with the amount of time that it takes for cancer to develop – cell phones have only been in use since 1973, so it is difficult to gauge any long-term adverse effects. The IARC working group’s chairman Dr Jonathan Samet stated that “the evidence, while still accumulating, is strong enough to support a conclusion and the 2B classification. The conclusion means that there could be some risk, and therefore we need to keep a close watch for a link between cell phones and cancer risk.”

Many cell phone manufacturers such as Apple and Blackberry currently warn consumers to keep handheld devices away from the body during use to decrease exposure to electromagnetic radiation – one easy way to do this is to pick up a radiation-cancelling headset such as the Blue Tube or the RF3 ENVi.

http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2011/pdfs/pr208_E.pdf

http://www.flickr.com/photos/amrita/110002826/Today the World Health Organization announced that radiation from cell phones could... more

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Cell Phones and Cancer: Assessment Classifies Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields as Possibly Carcinogenic to Humans

The WHO/International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified... more

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Android Phones Leak Your Personal Data

99.7% of Android smartphones are vulnerable to an attack in which someone could access... more

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WHACKO-TV PSYCHO PECKER

It has been more than a year since our trusted technologist PECKER JOHNSON has graced... more

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