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Malakriss

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Man they must be really scraping the bottom of the barrel now unless Norway is secretly planning on becoming the 51st state. No shit they're not doing specific targeting when it's foreign, they only have to jump through hoops for domestic.
 
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Even your TV is snooping on you...

"LG Smart Ad analyses users favourite programs, online behaviour, search keywords and other information to offer relevant ads to target audiences...In fact, there is an option in the system settings called "Collection of watching info:" which is set ON by default.

...I decided to do some traffic analysis to see what was being sent. It turns out that viewing information appears to be being sent regardless of whether this option is set to On or Off...This information appears to be sent back unencrypted and in the clear to LG every time you change channel.

...It was at this point, I made an even more disturbing find within the packet data dumps.I noticed filenames were being posted to LG's servers and that these filenames were ones stored on my external USB hard drive.

...So what does LG have to say about this?:

"The advice we have been given is that unfortunately as you accepted the Terms and Conditions on your TV, your concerns would be best directed to the retailer. We understand you feel you should have been made aware of these T's and C's at the point of sale, and for obvious reasons LG are unable to pass comment on their actions. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause you. If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact us again."

DoctorBeet's Blog: LG Smart TVs logging USB filenames and viewing info to LG servers
 
Hoss

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Has anyone told them that as long as they have nothing to hide, they should have nothing to fear?
 
Big Phoenix

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Hoss_sl said:
Has anyone told them that as long as they have nothing to hide, they should have nothing to fear?
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Hey now, if someone was proposing eliminating the ability for you to sleep on the job and just dick off wouldnt you fight it?
 
fanaskin

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Kim Dotcom: the TPP that Wall St and Hollywood own Obama (Wired UK)

Are there any other organisations you are concerned about?
The most worrying ones are all based in the US. And the other "Five Eyes" members (UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia) which became one unit to spy on the world. In order for Americans to bypass their national restrictions to spy on Americans, they just reroute their traffic through UK fibre and the UK spy agency takes that traffic and organises it in a nice way -- putting voice into text and making it searchable in giant databases. Then if the Americans want to spy on their citizens all they have to do is use the little Prism tool. They type in the email address of a person and one of the Five Eyes partners makes that data available to them. The NSA is hacking its own laws by utilising foreign organisations to spy on their own citizens.

We recently spoke to Peter Sunde, cofounder of The Pirate Bay, and he said that after the banking crisis and the surveillance revelations people aren't surprised by anything any more...
The banking issue -- that's the funniest thing of all. The US obviously has all the evidence they need to prosecute bankers. They just need to search their own spy database and then there you go -- 1,000 bankers in jail, a trillion dollars in fines. But it doesn't happen. Instead, the spy network is being used to fight a copyright case. They used Prism to spy on me. We know this because the prime minister of New Zealand apologised to me for illegal spying.

They are using it in a copyright case but not using it to take these bankers, who have ripped off so many people and caused these massive economic crises around the world, to jail.
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Agraza

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Yea, I've followed Kim Dotcom's story for a while. I'm not happy about the influence banks and media corporations have exerted over our govt. or that our govt. rolls over for them. We need a separation of corporation and state. Of course the legality of the actions of Sunda and Dotcom are nebulous, but the aforementioned bankers have caused far more harm than they ever will.
 
Dyvim

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Dont they say it takes a thief to spot a thief?
Well if thats the case i take dotcoms words for once.
 
Malakriss

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That's the kind of intelligence gathering every American wants to sign up (and get paid) for.
 
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NSA was planning on trying and embarrassing extremists by outing their porn habits. Apparently people here and at school have intimated that they have done the same to me, but I have yet to have someone show me what they are talking about so that I could confirm or deny or blame on my old room mate.BBC News - NSA
 
BoldW

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This would scare me if I ever planned on being a "radical" or running for public office. However, one would only need to bring up Fedor's history to be completely thought of as innocent and cherubic in comparison.

Either way, my file must be pretty big.
 
chaos

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Who cares? "Chaos likes big asses and anal videos BOOM DISCREDITED!" Shit is weak in 2013.
 
Kuro

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I wouldn't want to be the NSA agent tasked with explaining Shitting Dicknipples when trying to discredit someone.
 
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