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- Google's Android HTC phone transmitted data back to Google several times an hour
- Apple slammed for user locations being stored in iPhone and iPad
- Google and Apple are using location data to build databases of Wi-Fi hotspots
- Data from Apple devices syncs with computer, meaning anyone with access can see
- Representative Edward Markey questions whether the practice may be illegal

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I've always been hesitant to complain about Google in these pages. After all, that company is the founder of the feast:

Google owns Blogger, without which we would lack many blogs, including the one you are reading at present.

But I'm concerned by Google's new Chrome OS, the operating system that relies on "cloud computing."

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The company once known for its “don’t be evil” motto is now in bed with the spy agency known for the mass surveillance of American citizens.

The National Security Agency is widely understood to have the government’s biggest and smartest collection of geeks — the guys that are more skilled at network warfare than just about anyone on the planet. So, in a sense, it’s only natural that …

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By Noah Shachtman

America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon.

In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part of a larger movement within the spy services to …

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By Noah Shachtman

The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future.

The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, …

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