Businesses using your phone to build a customer profile on you:
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303453004579290632128929194
Identity thieves increasingly using tax returns to steal identities:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101332463
Google pays $3.2 billion for NEST, expanding reach into homes:
http://www.zdnet.com/googles-reach-expands-into-your-home-more-via-3-2-billion-nest-acquisition-7000025109/
Edward Snowden to join board of Freedom of the Press Foundation:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/15/us/politics/snowden-to-join-board-of-press-freedom-foundation.html?src=twr&_r=0
Law enforcement agencies 'borrowing' drones supposed to be used for border patrols:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/border-patrol-drones-being-borrowed-by-other-agencies-more-often-than-previously-known/2014/01/14/5f987af0-7d49-11e3-9556-4a4bf7bcbd84_print.html
Secret surveillance court judges are against changes recommend by panel
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-nsa-reform-20140115,0,5995749.story#axzz2qfmDhF1D including recommendations for a privacy advocate to participate in proceedings http://apnews.myway.com/article/20140115/DABATCVO3.html
Few changes expected at NSA:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-expected-to-preserve-nsa-programs-but-bolster-oversight/
Target data breach part of broad effort by hackers to steal information from retailers:
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304419104579324902602426862
Starbucks was caught storing mobile passwords in clear text:
http://wtop.com/1373/3543679/Starbucks-caught-storing-mobile-passwords-in-clear-text
The National Security Agency (NSA) collects 200 million text messages per day:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/16/nsa-collects-millions-text-messages-daily-untargeted-global-sweep and the president's own review panel concluded that the program has not been responsible for preventing any terrorist attacks: http://www.nationaljournal.com/technology/obama-s-plan-to-rein-in-nsa-phone-sweeps-20140117
President Barack Obama announces that he had no idea about the extent of NSA snooping:
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/obama-claims-ignorance-extent-nsa-surveillance
President Barack Obama is going to recommend that private companies hold the phone, email and text message data collected from nearly all Americans on a daily basis:
http://www.wtop.com/289/3544357/AP-Source-NSA-phone-data-control-may-come-to-end
NSA Official claims NSA data regularly used in in court cases for prosecuting Americans and instructs local law enforcement to create parallel data to make it look like the information came from somewhere else since the NSA data is being collected without a warrant and is inadmissible:
http://www.cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/matt-vespa/nsa-official-we-are-now-police-state
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