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BANGALORE (Reuters) – Google Inc released software on Wednesday that allows users of mobile phones and other wireless devices to automatically share their whereabouts with family and friends.
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States, Economies and Markets: Redefining the Rules
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Carbon Diem’s mobile phone carbon calculator
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Big brother coming one step closer, or viable license that citizens want?
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Middle-class families in Mexico are having tiny transmitters implanted under their skin so that satellites can track them if they are kidnapped.
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Banks and investment banks whose health is crucial to the global financial system should operate under a unified regulatory framework with “appropriate requirements for capital and liquidity”, according to Timothy Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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Fingerprints are considered to be among the most personal of information, and fingerprint databases created and proposed in the name of national security have generated much debate. Recently, “Server in the Sky” — a proposed international database of the fingerprints of suspected criminals and terrorists to be shared among the U.S., U.K. and Canada — has ignited a firestorm of controversy. As have cavalier comments by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff that fingerprints aren’t “personal data.”
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RFID is serving as the network for the RFID Ecosystem Project, a social networking experiment at the University of Washington in Seattle that is exploring the intersection of the value of tracking systems and the loss of privacy that they can cause.
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Reuters Photo: A Mexican national has his thumb fingerprint taken on a digital scanner by a U.S….
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