| The Corporate Identity Theft of NEC |
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In what has to be the most impressive display of criminal initiative that we've ever seen, an organized group of conspirators in Japan, China, and Taiwan managed to convince dozens of factories in the latter two countries that they represented Japan's NEC Corp., and got them to manufacture pirated products under the NEC brand.
Not only did the pirates duplicate versions of real NEC devices -- which, according to NEC, were "of generally good quality" -- they actually began producing their own line of NEC-branded products, developed with R&D commissioned by NEC business card-carrying "executives." All-in-all, the pirates had a product lineup of some fifty different items, ranging from home theater equipment to MP3 players to PC peripherals, and were even thoughtful enough to include counterfeit manuals and warranty documents with their goods.
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| Congress may consider mandatory ISP snooping |
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Last week, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, a Republican, gave a speech saying that data retention by Internet service providers is an "issue that must be addressed." Child pornography investigations have been "hampered" because data may be routinely deleted, Gonzales warned. Now, in a demonstration of bipartisan unity, a Democratic member of the Congressional Internet Caucus is preparing to introduce an amendment--perhaps during a U.S. House of Representatives floor vote next week--that would make such data deletion illegal.
The fear for any privacy advocate is that data stored is always vulnerable to be hacked into and stolen. Should every piece of information about your travels around the Internet be stored forever?
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| Cars can contain data recorder owners don't know about |
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Many new cars are equipped with an event data recorder, or EDR, a small box containing a microchip that records automobile-related data covering the last five seconds before an auto accident. It can help investigators learn how an accident occurred. But some are concerned about the use of the boxes in lawsuits and say that they constitute an unwarranted intrusion on privacy rights.
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