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Media metrics firm Comscore says its software that monitors users' Internet usage isn't spyware, despite growing criticism that it violates users' privacy for no real benefit.

Among the legal filings are affidavits submitted by the FBI in other criminal cases, and affidavits submitted to the secretive FISC, a court based in the Justice Department’s headquarters that approves surveillance orders and covert entries in cases involving national security, including terrorism probes. The FBI’s use of the technology surfaced in July when Wired discovered an affidavit in an investigation into a series of high school bomb hoaxes in which the bureau traced the culprit using the program. While the FBI FOIA official did not remark on the quantity or details of the CIPAV affidavits, it’s likely the surveillance requests were granted Through the end of 2004, the court approved 18,761 warrants, and rejected only five. The problem I become concerned with is when the Constituion becomes the second law of the land, and false things like a Theocracy are made the first law of the land. More Spyware News

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Jul 24 2003 : Online banking “in South Africa was a time-bomb waiting to go off [and] it just happened to be Absa first”, IT forensics expert, Olaf du Randt, has said after the identity fraud reported by Absa last weekend.