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It was bad enough when we found out these office workhorses were just giving you cancer, now they could be endangering your whole nefarious operation. Bad guys take heed, your laser printer might give you away. Turns out that many laser printers mark every page they print with yellow dots that are invisible to the naked eye. A company can actually use those dots to identify the serial number of ...

In a potentially huge blow to the fight for privacy on the Internet,a judge has ordered that Google must hand over data about every video viewed by YouTube users to Viacom, including usernames and IP addresses. Viacom is suing Google for allowing its copyrighted content to be posted to YouTube, and hopes to use this data to prove that copyrighted material is more popular than user-generated ...

It was disturbing enough when the government was just listening in. Now privacy advocates are afraid the government may be tracking our every move through our cell phones. In November of 2007, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Department of Justice (DOJ) to find out how widespread such tracking is. The DOJ didn't hand over the data, so ...