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A data breach with a twist; Surveilled to death

Surveilled to death; Microsoft, researchers release new operating system project: Barrelfish
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A data breach with a twist

An employee at a Wyoming bank screws up and sends a bunch of confidential customer information to the wrong Gmail account. When the inadvertent recipient fails to even acknowledge a subsequent "please delete that" plea from the bank, the bank sues Google to force the company to cough up the recipient's contact information. Read full story

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