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Wired for Repression
Bloomberg's series "Wired for Repression" revealed the extent to which Western companies have sold surveillance systems to authoritarian countries, including Iran, Syria, Bahrain and Tunisia, which have used them to track, imprison, torture and kill. The newest newest artillery for reprssive regimes, the gear allows authorities to intercept their citizens' e-mails and text messages, monitor Internet activity and locate political targets through cell phone technology.
Tags: torture; surveillance; imprisonment; censorship
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University Alert System Fails
An armed robbery taking place just feet off of the University of Miami campus failed to trigger a system-wide emergency notification. The text messages and e-mails meant to alert students and faculty of the danger were never sent out. CBS4 uncovers the failure.
Tags: armed robbery; University of Miami; alert; system; fail; students; crime; gunmen; e-mails; text messages; emergency;
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The Email Trial
After requesting records from the Harris County Sheriff's Office to investigate possible corruption of the local County Commissioner, over 750,000 emails were deleted.
Tags: e-mail; slave labor; surveillance; ranch house; text message; shredding;
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The Mark Foley Investigation
Almost a year after the media received the first emails Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) sent to underage Congressional pages, ABCNews.com's investigative team went online with the story. Using the interactive function of their website, former pages forwarded to ABC more email exchanges they’d had with Foley, some of which were sexually explicit. After the first posting, Foley staffers claimed the pages "misunderstood", and that political opponents were smearing Foley. When the more explicit emails were read back to Foley, he tried to bargain with the investigative team: he would resign if the site didn't post the emails. ABC said no deal, and Foley resigned the next day. The issue morphed into "who knew" and why Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert had done nothing before to stop Foley's behavior. The story sparked an investigation by the FBI's Cyber Division, and criminal charges were filed against Foley in Florida. This series includes interviews with Brian Ross on breaking the story, and other media stories about the ABCNews.com coverage.
Tags: Capitol Hill Page; Congressional Pages; Page Alumni Association; House Ethics Committee; sexually explicit messages to minors; Congressman Mark Foley; email messages; AOL Instant Messenger; Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert; FBI investigation; FBI's Cyber Division; House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children; Department of Justice; pedophile; Wired Safety
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On Offense. As democrats learn art of skewering foe, Dan Carol is there. He digs up facts to wield when race gets rough, as this one just might. A list of 'generic attacks'
According to the article, "Mr. Carol isn't appearing in prime time at the Democratic convention. He isn't an employee of the Gore campaign or the Democratic National Committee. But as a consultant to the DNC, Democratic congressional campaigns and allied groups, he is part of a cadre of political warriors whose mastery of Information Age weapons is vital to Democrats' push to elect Al Gore and win control of Congress. Using television attack ads, internet sites, satellite interviews to targeted broadcast markets and blast fax and e-mail messages, they will seek to shred Mr. Bush's gauzy slogans by providing documentation that his Texas record and campaign proposals aren't 'compassionate' at all."
Tags: Al Gore; George Bush; politics; election; democrats; republicans; political attacks; consultant; Dan Carol; internet; campaigns; conventions
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Shadowing slackers
Civic.com examines how public entities crack down on employees who misuse the Internet. The story reveals that the number of companies that monitor their employees Internet use and check up on employee e-mail messages has jumped in the last three years. Governments are modifying acceptable-use policies, and considering the increasing cost of monitoring. A major finding is that most offenders are solid workers, who, after being punished, "go on about their lives as even better employees than they were before."
Tags: workers; employment; employers; work ethics; American Management association; Web; software; pornography; e-mail; business
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Cyberstalking
CBS news looks at the fast growing Internet crimes, cyberstalking in particular, and examines the legal challenges involved in prosecuting them. The report "profiles freelance writer Jayne Hitchcock, a victim of cyberstalkers," who describes how she has been harassed with "nasty e-mail messages and threats" for years. The story explores why "law enforcement was reluctant to take her complaints seriously," and sheds light on "the frustrations the justice system deals with in prosecuting cyber-crimes."
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; crime; harassment; on-line; identity theft; social security number; FBI; courts; mail fraud
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Restricted Access: Whose Right to Know?
"The Community Newspaper Company dispatched a team of more than 100 reporters across the state to test public officials' compliance with the state's law on open records and uncovered widespread violations... Under the direction of the newspaper's projects editor, Chris Szechenyi, each of the reporters asked for a uniform set of public records. The results were then compiled in a spreadsheet and analyzed. In addition, Szechenyi made a separate set of public information requests to ten state agencies and the governor's office."
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Anatomy of a Spam
Wired reports that "It all started with a hot email pitch for a miraculous product...The message had all the hallmarks of a Net come-on, the text crawling down the screen like a snake....This spam intrigued me, because it concerned a device that will cause a sensation if it ever hits the market. Tracking devices using Global Positioning System satellites have been developed for luxury cars and boats, but no one has produced anything as advanced as what this spam described...For such a gizmo to work, several technological breakthroughs would be required..."
Tags: false advertising; business; GPS; fraud; investors