Cell Phone Privacy Intrusion and Is Your Bank Spying On You?

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Courthouse News reports on how an advertising company has circumvented security measures on millions of phones by dropping a unique identifier into the phones' memory, enabling media companies like Fox News and CNN to harvest detailed personal information on users.

Meanwhile, bank spying on financial transactions continues unabated. (Excuse: We need to monitor creditworthiness.) What is new is software enabling them and employers to scan social networks more effectively. Another reason not to have a facebook page...