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Your phone records are for sale
Chicago Sun-Times January 5, 2006
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The Chicago Police Department is
warning officers their cell phone
records are available to anyone --
for a price. Dozens of online
services are selling lists of cell
phone calls, raising security
concerns among law enforcement and
privacy experts. To test the
service, the FBI paid Locatecell.com
$160 to buy the records for an
agent's cell...

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Data Mining 101: Finding
Subversives with Amazon Wishlists
applefritter Jan. 4, 2006
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An individual with access to the
Internet can develop a fairly
sophisticated profile of hundreds of
thousands of U.S. citizens by using
data mining of free and publicly
available resources, such as
Amazon.com's vast database of
wishlists, as programmer Tom Owad
has proved. He extracted names and
cities for readers of "dangerous
books" to show...

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