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<item><title><![CDATA[ Spa Aims to Turn Cold Shoulder Into Warm Embrace ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/26/AR2008092604200.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/26/AR2008092604200.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Living in LoCo is Erica Garman's blog devoted to all things interesting in Loudoun County. You can find it at http://www.loudounextra.com . This column of highlights from the blog appears in this space every Sunday. ]]></description><dc:creator>Erica Garman</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Spa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aims]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Turn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cold]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shoulder]]></category><category><![CDATA[Into]]></category><category><![CDATA[Warm]]></category><category><![CDATA[Embrace]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lori L. Waters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middleburg Bank]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sally Mann]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Mystics]]></category><category><![CDATA[WNBA Eastern Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[Women's National Basketball Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middleburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sheila Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Erica Garman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alan Gernhardt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dean S. Worcester]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hamilton]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Burton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudon County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marybeth Mohr]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scott K. York]]></category><category><![CDATA[Todd Gray]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Student Privacy Spotlighted in Va. ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/26/AR2008092603641.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/26/AR2008092603641.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ School officials in the City of Manassas admitted this week that they skirted federal privacy laws when they divulged personal information about a number of Hispanic students to city inspectors investigating anonymous complaints about overcrowded housing. ]]></description><dc:creator>Brigid Schulte</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Student]]></category><category><![CDATA[Privacy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spotlighted]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Va.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ana Taylor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fauquier County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ramon Rodriguez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Odems]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barmak Nassirian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gail Pope]]></category><category><![CDATA[Larry Hughes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Laura Varela]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers]]></category><category><![CDATA[El Salvador]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennifer Buske]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meg Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Lawyers Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Debra Odems]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Gasoline Depots At Risk Of Fraud ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/26/AR2008092602962.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/26/AR2008092602962.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Prince George's auditors say lax oversight at the county's 20 fuel depots has left the government open to fraud, abuse and the possible theft of costly gasoline. ]]></description><dc:creator>Rosalind S. Helderman</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Gasoline]]></category><category><![CDATA[Depots]]></category><category><![CDATA[At]]></category><category><![CDATA[Risk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fraud]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Floyd Holt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard G. Hilmer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Office of Central Services]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ AT& T, Verizon to Refrain From Tracking Users Online ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/25/AR2008092504135.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/25/AR2008092504135.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ AT&T and Verizon, two of the nation's leading Internet service providers, pledged yesterday to refrain from tracking customer Web behavior unless they receive explicit permission to do so.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41954957811" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41954957811" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Peter Whoriskey</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[AT&]]></category><category><![CDATA[T,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Verizon]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Refrain]]></category><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tracking]]></category><category><![CDATA[Users]]></category><category><![CDATA[Online]]></category><category><![CDATA[Google Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[AT&T Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Verizon Communications Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Microsoft Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Byron Dorgan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dorothy Attwood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeff Chester]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Zaneis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Tauke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Digital Democracy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Consumer Reports National Research Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[DoubleClick Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Interactive Advertising Bureau]]></category><category><![CDATA[Time Warner Cable Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silicon Valley]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Expanded Powers to Search Travelers at Border Detailed ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/22/AR2008092202843.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/22/AR2008092202843.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The U.S. government has quietly recast policies that affect the way information is gathered from U.S. citizens and others crossing the border and what is done with it, including relaxing a two-decade-old policy that placed a high bar on federal agents copying travelers' personal material, according... ]]></description><dc:creator>Ellen Nakashima</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Expanded]]></category><category><![CDATA[Powers]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Search]]></category><category><![CDATA[Travelers]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[Border]]></category><category><![CDATA[Detailed]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yasir Qadhi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amy Kudwa]]></category><category><![CDATA[David D. Cole]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nathan A. Sales]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Haven]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russ Knocke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Asian Law Caucus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Electronic Frontier Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nicaragua]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Customs and Border Protection]]></category><category><![CDATA[Houston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marcia Hofmann]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shirin Sinnar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Toronto]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julie Tate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Constitutional Rights]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yale University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Connecticut]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Hackers Access Palin's Personal E-Mail, Post Some Online ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/17/AR2008091703304.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/17/AR2008091703304.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A group of computer hackers said yesterday that they had accessed a Yahoo e-mail account of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, publishing some of her private communications to expose what appeared to be her use of a personal account for government business. ]]></description><dc:creator>Michael D. Shear and Karl Vick</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Hackers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Access]]></category><category><![CDATA[Palin's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category><category><![CDATA[E-Mail,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Post]]></category><category><![CDATA[Some]]></category><category><![CDATA[Online]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yahoo! Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andree McLeod]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Allison]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anchorage]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donald C. Mitchell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ivy Frye]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rick Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Monegan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska Department of Public Safety]]></category><category><![CDATA[BlackBerry Mobile Devices]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Countrywide Says Customer Data Were Sold ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/13/AR2008091300337.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/13/AR2008091300337.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ For up to 2 million Countrywide customers, the reality must be distressing: Their personal information, including Social Security numbers, was worth about 2.5 cents. ]]></description><dc:creator>Renae Merle</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Countrywide]]></category><category><![CDATA[Says]]></category><category><![CDATA[Customer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Data]]></category><category><![CDATA[Were]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sold]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rene L. Rebollo Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eduard F. Goodman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Identity Theft Resource Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bank of America Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jay Foley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Diego]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thom Mrozek]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Equifax Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Experian Group Ltd.]]></category><category><![CDATA[TransUnion LLC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Privacy Shield Against the Campaigns ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091202658.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091202658.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ I don't know about you, but I do not want my neighbors knocking on my door asking me whom I'm going to vote for.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41954958360" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41954958360" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Shaun Dakin</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Privacy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shield]]></category><category><![CDATA[Against]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Campaigns]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Google Inc.]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Looking for a Loan? Start Compiling This Paperwork. ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091201535.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091201535.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When it comes to getting a home loan, the game has changed dramatically. ]]></description><dc:creator>Ilyce R. Glink and Samuel J. Tamkin</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Looking]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loan?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Start]]></category><category><![CDATA[Compiling]]></category><category><![CDATA[This]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paperwork.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ilyce R. Glink]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel J. Tamkin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[AnnualCreditReport.com]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fair Isaac Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Internal Revenue Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category><category><![CDATA[MyFico.com]]></category><category><![CDATA[Real Estate Matters Syndicate]]></category><category><![CDATA[TransUnion LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tribune Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Mexico]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Google Promises Privacy Fixes in Its Chrome Browser ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/AR2008090802472.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/AR2008090802472.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Google, whose new, faster Web browser Chrome has raised privacy concerns on both sides of the Atlantic, said yesterday it was taking steps to mask the identities of people who use the tool. ]]></description><dc:creator>Ellen Nakashima</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Google]]></category><category><![CDATA[Promises]]></category><category><![CDATA[Privacy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fixes]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Its]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chrome]]></category><category><![CDATA[Browser]]></category><category><![CDATA[Google Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jane Horvath]]></category><category><![CDATA[Google Chrome]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Schaar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alissa Cooper]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Democracy]]></category><category><![CDATA[German Federal Office for Information Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ NebuAd Halts Plans For Web Tracking ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/03/AR2008090303566.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/03/AR2008090303566.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Tech firm NebuAd has put on hold plans to widely deploy an online advertising technology that tracks consumers' every Web click while Congress reviews privacy concerns associated with the technique. ]]></description><dc:creator>Ellen Nakashima</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[NebuAd]]></category><category><![CDATA[Halts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Plans]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[Web]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tracking]]></category><category><![CDATA[NebuAd Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Dykes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Janet McGraw]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Chester]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kira Makagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robb Topolski]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silicon Valley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cable One Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Digital Democracy]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[VeriFone Inc.]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Class-Action Settlement for Nearly Every Consumer ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/03/AR2008090303597.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/03/AR2008090303597.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In a class-action settlement, the credit bureau TransUnion has agreed to provide free credit-monitoring services to millions of consumers to settle claims that it illegally passed along private information for marketing purposes.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41954959241" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41954959241" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Michelle Singletary</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Class-Action]]></category><category><![CDATA[Settlement]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nearly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Every]]></category><category><![CDATA[Consumer]]></category><category><![CDATA[TransUnion LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Micheletti]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michelle Singletary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Identity Theft Resource Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Public Radio Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ From the Ground Up ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/22/AR2008082203338.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/22/AR2008082203338.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Steve Lubs was looking to get rid of his $8,000 in credit card debt, but his high interest rate had him bogged down. He tried getting a loan through a bank to pay off the balance but couldn't find one with an interest rate lower than 12 percent. ]]></description><dc:creator>Kim Hart</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ground]]></category><category><![CDATA[Up]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carson Evan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virgin Money Ltd.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve Lubs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Asheesh Advani]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carmina Alvarado]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Larsen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Akash Agarwal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Konrad Berk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Columbia (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Vyge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Branson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Towson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[CircleLending Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[eBay Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Santa Clara University]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Mortgage Shopping, Incognito ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/21/AR2008082103225.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/21/AR2008082103225.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ LOS ANGELES -- Even though mortgage lenders have raised the bar on what it takes to qualify for a home loan, shopping for a loan online has gotten easier, if not necessarily less confusing. ]]></description><dc:creator>Alex Veiga</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Mortgage]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shopping,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Incognito]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zillow Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spencer Rascoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Consumers Union of U.S. Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[eBay Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Welbaum]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gail Hillebrand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Milwaukee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Statnick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seattle]]></category><category><![CDATA[California Mortgage Bankers Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Expedia Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Orbitz Worldwide Inc.]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Keeping the IRS in Check ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/20/AR2008082003320.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/20/AR2008082003320.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Nina E. Olson, the official appointed to speak out on behalf of U.S. taxpayers, has a few major gripes about the Internal Revenue Service. Among them, she believes the agency needs to better protect victims of tax-related identity theft. She also thinks the IRS should get more information out to... ]]></description><dc:creator>Michelle Singletary</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Keeping]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[IRS]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Check]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nina E. Olson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Internal Revenue Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[Office of the Taxpayer Advocate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michelle Singletary]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Public Radio Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Citizens' U.S. Border Crossings Tracked ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/19/AR2008081902811.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/19/AR2008081902811.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The federal government has been using its system of border checkpoints to greatly expand a database on travelers entering the country by collecting information on all U.S. citizens crossing by land, compiling data that will be stored for 15 years and may be used in criminal and intelligence...<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41954959742" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41954959742" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Ellen Nakashima</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Citizens']]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Border]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crossings]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tracked]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greg Nojeim]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ann Cavoukian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russ Knocke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Democracy]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Government Printing Office]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ontario]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vermont]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ License Plate Readers To Be Used In D.C. Area ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/16/AR2008081602218.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/16/AR2008081602218.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Authorities plan to install about 200 automated license plate readers on police vehicles and alongside roads in the Washington area to thwart potential terrorist attacks, dramatically expanding the use of a high-tech tool previously aimed at parking scofflaws and car thieves. ]]></description><dc:creator>Mary Beth Sheridan</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[License]]></category><category><![CDATA[Plate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Readers]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Be]]></category><category><![CDATA[Used]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Area]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Melissa Ngo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrew Lauland]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Glasgow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kevin Reardon]]></category><category><![CDATA[London]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manhattan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Malson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Council of the District of Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C. Hospital Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Electronic Privacy Information Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Irish Republican Army]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Social Network for Your Doctor, Pharmacist and Insurer ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081503269.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081503269.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Imagine a virtual health clinic: Your lung doctor and heart specialist can pull up your online medical profile and chat, via instant messenger, about your medications. You schedule checkups online, create a wellness journal or even rate your general practitioner. ]]></description><dc:creator>Kendra Marr</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Social]]></category><category><![CDATA[Network]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Your]]></category><category><![CDATA[Doctor,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pharmacist]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Insurer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Peel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Janice Algie]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve Case]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bethesda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henry Cha]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Heyman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Keith Lemer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pam Dixon]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Medical Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[AOL LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Facebook Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Google Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kiplinger Washington Editors Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Microsoft Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patient Privacy Rights Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peterson & Co. LLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[World Privacy Forum]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Some Web Firms Say They Track Behavior Without Explicit Consent ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/11/AR2008081102270.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/11/AR2008081102270.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Several Internet and broadband companies have acknowledged using targeted-advertising technology without explicitly informing customers, according to letters released yesterday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. ]]></description><dc:creator>Ellen Nakashima</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Some]]></category><category><![CDATA[Web]]></category><category><![CDATA[Firms]]></category><category><![CDATA[Say]]></category><category><![CDATA[They]]></category><category><![CDATA[Track]]></category><category><![CDATA[Behavior]]></category><category><![CDATA[Without]]></category><category><![CDATA[Explicit]]></category><category><![CDATA[Consent]]></category><category><![CDATA[Google Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cable One Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cliff Stearns]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Chester]]></category><category><![CDATA[DoubleClick Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Microsoft Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[NebuAd Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yahoo! Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alan Davidson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ari Schwartz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ed Markey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joe L. Barton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Dingell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Melany Stroupe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sena Fitzmaurice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Democracy and Technology]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Digital Democracy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Comcast Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Knology Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Privacy Caucus]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Yahoo to Make Targeted Ads Optional ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/07/AR2008080703104.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/07/AR2008080703104.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Internet giant Yahoo is set to announce today that it will allow users to shut off targeted advertising on its Web sites, a move that comes as a congressional committee continues to air concerns about consumer privacy.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41955001110" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41955001110" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Peter Whoriskey</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Yahoo]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Make]]></category><category><![CDATA[Targeted]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ads]]></category><category><![CDATA[Optional]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yahoo! Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Srinija Srinivasan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ari Schwartz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kelley Benander]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Democracy and Technology]]></category><category><![CDATA[Microsoft Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Flickr.com]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ 11 Charged in Global Theft, Sale Of 40 Million Card Numbers ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/05/AR2008080501859.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/05/AR2008080501859.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Federal prosecutors charged 11 people yesterday with the theft and sale of more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers from at least nine U.S. retailers in what they said was one of the largest and most complex hacking and identity theft cases ever brought. ]]></description><dc:creator>Simone Baribeau and Ellen Nakashima</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[11]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charged]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Global]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theft,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sale]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[40]]></category><category><![CDATA[Million]]></category><category><![CDATA[Card]]></category><category><![CDATA[Numbers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Miami]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Avivah Litan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Sullivan]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Diego]]></category><category><![CDATA[Belarus]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Estonia]]></category><category><![CDATA[The TJX Companies Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Secret Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eastern Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Scott]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hung-Ming Chiu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Mukasey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sergei Storchak]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sergey Pavolvich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barnes & Noble Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[BJ's Wholesale Club Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boston Market Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category><category><![CDATA[Forever 21 Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gartner Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category><category><![CDATA[Internal Revenue Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[OfficeMax Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Diego Field Office of the U.S. Secret Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Sports Authority Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[East Asia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Prescription Data Used To Assess Consumers ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/03/AR2008080302077.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/03/AR2008080302077.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Health and life insurance companies have access to a powerful new tool for evaluating whether to cover individual consumers: a health "credit report" drawn from databases containing prescription drug records on more than 200 million Americans. ]]></description><dc:creator>Ellen Nakashima</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Prescription]]></category><category><![CDATA[Data]]></category><category><![CDATA[Used]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Assess]]></category><category><![CDATA[Consumers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Franzen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Dick]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Federal Trade Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Gellman]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Stenson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kate Atkinson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tedd Determan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amherst (Massachusetts)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Sparapani]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tyler Mason]]></category><category><![CDATA[60 Minutes]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Civil Liberties Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Health Policy Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Magda Jean-Louis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prozac]]></category><category><![CDATA[Realtime Solutions Group Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Health and Human Services]]></category><category><![CDATA[UnitedHealth Group Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zocor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Lawmakers Probe Web Tracking ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071602378.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071602378.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ An Internet provider based in Kansas used a monitoring technology earlier this year to track sites visited by its users, apparently without directly notifying them, according to a congressional panel investigating the action. ]]></description><dc:creator>Ellen Nakashima</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Lawmakers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Probe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Web]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tracking]]></category><category><![CDATA[NebuAd Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Dykes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Embarq Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ed Markey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alissa Cooper]]></category><category><![CDATA[Debra Peterson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emily Riley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joe L. Barton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Dingell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Las Vegas]]></category><category><![CDATA[St. Louis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kansas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madonna Lebling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Democracy and Technology]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charter Communications Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[France]]></category><category><![CDATA[Google Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jupitermedia Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silicon Valley]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Posting of Social Security Numbers Results in Suspension of 3 Workers ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/14/AR2008071402245.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/14/AR2008071402245.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Three Metro employees have been disciplined after the Social Security numbers of nearly 4,700 current and former employees were mistakenly posted on the transit agency's Web site last month, officials said yesterday.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41955001909" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41955001909" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Lena H. Sun</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Posting]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Social]]></category><category><![CDATA[Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[Numbers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Results]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Suspension]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[3]]></category><category><![CDATA[Workers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Candace Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Identity Theft Resource Center]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Senate Grapples With Web Privacy Issues ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/09/AR2008070902079.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/09/AR2008070902079.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Consumers worry about their Internet privacy. Politicians vow to investigate. And two of the nation's biggest tech companies, Google and Microsoft, support federal legislation for data collection. ]]></description><dc:creator>Peter Whoriskey</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grapples]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[Web]]></category><category><![CDATA[Privacy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Issues]]></category><category><![CDATA[Byron Dorgan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Nelson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim DeMint]]></category><category><![CDATA[Google Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Microsoft Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Carper]]></category><category><![CDATA[Facebook Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[NebuAd Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Federal Trade Commission]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ U.S. Seeks Data Exchange ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/07/AR2008070702459.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/07/AR2008070702459.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The United States is negotiating deals with European countries to exchange fingerprint and DNA data in criminal and terrorist cases, and in some circumstances to transfer data on race or ethnic origin, political and religious beliefs, or sexual orientation. ]]></description><dc:creator>Ellen Nakashima</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seeks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Data]]></category><category><![CDATA[Exchange]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Schaar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stewart A. Baker]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Sobel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Czech Republic]]></category><category><![CDATA[Electronic Frontier Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Estonia]]></category><category><![CDATA[European Parliament]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hungary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Netherlands]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Post-9/11 Dragnet Turns Up Surprises ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/05/AR2008070501831.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/05/AR2008070501831.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In the six-and-a-half years that the U.S. government has been fingerprinting insurgents, detainees and ordinary people in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Horn of Africa, hundreds have turned out to share an unexpected background, FBI and military officials said. They have criminal arrest records in the... ]]></description><dc:creator>Ellen Nakashima</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Post-9/11]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dragnet]]></category><category><![CDATA[Turns]]></category><category><![CDATA[Up]]></category><category><![CDATA[Surprises]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Shannon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fran Townsend]]></category><category><![CDATA[Herb Richardson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Office of the Director of National Intelligence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Armed Forces]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bogota (Colombia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brandon Mayfield]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlottesville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clarksburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dallas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Houston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kabul]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kandahar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madrid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marc Rotenberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[McLean (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Kirkpatrick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mohamed al-Qahtani]]></category><category><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russ Travers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve Nixon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tikrit]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zamboanga]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Defense Science Board]]></category><category><![CDATA[Electronic Privacy Information Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Horn of Africa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Interpol]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Counterterrorism Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Orlando International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philippines]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Drezen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sweden]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Taliban]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Army National Ground Intelligence Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Defense]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Africa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Utah]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Celebrity Passport Records Popular ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070303799.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070303799.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Government workers repeatedly snooped without authorization inside the electronic passport records of entertainers, athletes and other high-profile Americans, a State Department audit has found. One celebrity's records were breached 356 times by more than six dozen people.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41955002735" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41955002735" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Glenn Kessler</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Celebrity]]></category><category><![CDATA[Passport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Records]]></category><category><![CDATA[Popular]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Kirby]]></category><category><![CDATA[Google Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sports Illustrated]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. State Department Bureau of Consular Affairs]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Forbes Media LLC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ YouTube Ordered To Release User Data ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070302359.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070302359.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A federal judge in New York this week ordered the video-sharing site YouTube, the world's third-most-visited Web site, to release data on the viewing habits of its tens of millions of worldwide viewers. ]]></description><dc:creator>Ellen Nakashima</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[YouTube]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ordered]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Release]]></category><category><![CDATA[User]]></category><category><![CDATA[Data]]></category><category><![CDATA[YouTube Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Google Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Viacom Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Fricklas]]></category><category><![CDATA[AOL LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Electronic Frontier Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Catherine Lacavera]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennifer Urban]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jon Stewart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kurt Opsahl]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louis L. Stanton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stanton]]></category><category><![CDATA[MTV Networks Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nickelodeon Networks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Whoriskey]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Daily Show]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Library of Congress]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Southern California]]></category><category><![CDATA[VH1 Television Network]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ European Lawmaker To Sue U.S. Over Data ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/30/AR2008063001895.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/30/AR2008063001895.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A European Union lawmaker who frequently travels to the United States is suing the U.S. government for access to her personal records, such as credit card information and travel history, that the Department of Homeland Security and other security agencies may have gathered. ]]></description><dc:creator>Ellen Nakashima</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[European]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lawmaker]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sue]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Over]]></category><category><![CDATA[Data]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Rosenzweig]]></category><category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[David L. Sobel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ignasi Guardans]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[Electronic Frontier Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Home Affairs Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Netherlands]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[Utrecht]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Keep Watch on Your Credit Report -- Free ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062700153.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062700153.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ If you're thinking about buying a home or refinancing a mortgage, you may want to avail yourself of a forthcoming free service that could help you get a better mortgage rate. ]]></description><dc:creator>Kenneth R. Harney</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Keep]]></category><category><![CDATA[Watch]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Your]]></category><category><![CDATA[Credit]]></category><category><![CDATA[Report]]></category><category><![CDATA[--]]></category><category><![CDATA[Free]]></category><category><![CDATA[TransUnion LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fair Isaac Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kenneth R. Harney]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. District Court]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Internet Provider Halts Plan to Track, Sell Users' Surfing Data ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/24/AR2008062401033.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/24/AR2008062401033.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Charter Communications, the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States, announced yesterday that it has backed off a plan to monitor customers' Internet transmissions.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41955003090" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41955003090" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Peter Whoriskey</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category><category><![CDATA[Provider]]></category><category><![CDATA[Halts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Plan]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Track,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Users']]></category><category><![CDATA[Surfing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Data]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ed Markey]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[NebuAd Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Dykes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charter Communications Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anita Lamont]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fort Worth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gigi B. Sohn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeff Chester]]></category><category><![CDATA[Newtown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oxford]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Luis Obispo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Digital Democracy]]></category><category><![CDATA[CenturyTel Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Embarq Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Connecticut]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Plan to Fingerprint Foreigners Exiting U.S. Is Opposed ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/21/AR2008062101466.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/21/AR2008062101466.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The airline industry and embassies of 34 countries, including the members of the European Union, are urging the U.S. government to withdraw a plan that would require airlines and cruise lines to collect digital fingerprints of all foreigners before they depart the United States, starting in August... ]]></description><dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Plan]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fingerprint]]></category><category><![CDATA[Foreigners]]></category><category><![CDATA[Exiting]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Opposed]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Giovanni Bisignani]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clive Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stewart A. Baker]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[Condoleezza Rice]]></category><category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Chertoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[German Ministry of Foreign Affairs]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Air Transport Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Congress]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Ex-Schools Employee and Friend Admit ID Theft ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/19/AR2008061903559.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/19/AR2008061903559.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A former D.C. public schools employee admitted in federal court yesterday that she and a friend stole the identities of 65 co-workers and job applicants as part of a scheme to open credit card accounts in their names. ]]></description><dc:creator>Del Quentin Wilber</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Ex-Schools]]></category><category><![CDATA[Employee]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Friend]]></category><category><![CDATA[Admit]]></category><category><![CDATA[ID]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theft]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rashelle L. Henderson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emmet G. Sullivan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[District Heights]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joanne Hepworth]]></category><category><![CDATA[AK-47 Assault Rifle]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. District Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Secret Service]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Flashy Facebook Page, at a Cost to Privacy ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/11/AR2008061103759.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/11/AR2008061103759.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Facebook fanatics who have covered their profiles on the popular social networking site with silly games and quirky trivia quizzes may be unknowingly giving a host of strangers an intimate peek at their lives. ]]></description><dc:creator>Kim Hart</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Flashy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category><category><![CDATA[Page,]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cost]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Privacy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Facebook Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[MySpace Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Goodman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrienne Felt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alessandro Acquisti]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ben Ling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Soghoian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Columbia (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Dixon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim O'Shaughnessy]]></category><category><![CDATA[AOL LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bebo Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carnegie Mellon University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Digital Democracy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Google Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stanford University]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Federal Trade Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ On the Fence? Here's How to Decide. ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/11/AR2008061101008.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/11/AR2008061101008.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Last year's mild winter meant that Rick Poppleton started getting calls earlier than usual this spring, but the reasons are always the same: Someone got a new dog and needed an enclosed area for the puppy to play in. Another person couldn't stand looking at a neighbor's mess for a moment longer. ...<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41955003795" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41955003795" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Denise DiFulco</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fence?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Here's]]></category><category><![CDATA[How]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Decide.]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Council Questions Camera Plan ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060202805.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060202805.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ D.C. Council members grilled a top city official on a controversial plan to build a network out of thousands of government-owned video cameras, on the eve of a vote today that could place restrictions on the system. ]]></description><dc:creator>Mary Beth Sheridan</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Questions]]></category><category><![CDATA[Camera]]></category><category><![CDATA[Plan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Tangherlini]]></category><category><![CDATA[Darrell Darnell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Council of the District of Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary M. Cheh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Muriel Bowser]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phil Mendelson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Committee on Public Safety]]></category><category><![CDATA[Security and Emergency Management Agency]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Sudden Disconnect Over Social Networking Deal ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060202925.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060202925.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Google's announcement of a service to "make the Web more social" was decidedly casual, or staged to seem that way. ]]></description><dc:creator>Peter Whoriskey</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Sudden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Disconnect]]></category><category><![CDATA[Over]]></category><category><![CDATA[Social]]></category><category><![CDATA[Networking]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Facebook Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Google Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Glazer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Saad]]></category><category><![CDATA[MySpace Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bernard Lunn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Kelly]]></category><category><![CDATA[LinkedIn Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Zuckerberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Microsoft Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[News Corporation Ltd.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ 38 Charged in Phishing Scams ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/19/AR2008051902658.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/19/AR2008051902658.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Thirty-eight people were charged yesterday with stealing names, Social Security numbers, credit card data and other personal information from Internet users as part of a global crime ring. ]]></description><dc:creator>Lara Jakes Jordan</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[38]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charged]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phishing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Romania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Connecticut]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bucharest]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark R. Filip]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Haven]]></category><category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category><category><![CDATA[Citigroup Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[PayPal Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Portugal]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wells Fargo & Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bulgaria]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ After a Wallet Theft, Prevent Identity Theft ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/02/AR2008050202544.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/02/AR2008050202544.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Q My wallet was stolen a few days ago. My driver's license was in it. I canceled all my cards immediately when I found out. I've been checking my accounts daily to make sure that there are no fraudulent charges. What is the best way to check that my identity has not been stolen or that there are no...<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41955004286" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41955004286" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Kimberly Lankford</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[After]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wallet]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theft,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prevent]]></category><category><![CDATA[Identity]]></category><category><![CDATA[Theft]]></category><category><![CDATA[Equifax Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Experian Group Ltd.]]></category><category><![CDATA[TransUnion LLC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Rise of Alter Egos In Everybody's Space ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/01/AR2008050103513.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/01/AR2008050103513.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Since joining Facebook and MySpace two years ago, Luke Mitchell has amassed 476 friends, mostly buddies from high school and college. It was a great way to keep in touch, until his boss showed up on the sites and saw the embarrassing party pictures a friend posted. ]]></description><dc:creator>Kim Hart</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rise]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Egos]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Everybody's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Space]]></category><category><![CDATA[MySpace Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Facebook Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barbara Leary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Luke Mitchell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arwa Zafar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Catherine Dwyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Kelly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saba Khan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harrisburg (Pennsylvania)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Katherine Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marc Rotenberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark R. Leary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary Madden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Orlando (Florida)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Duke University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Electronic Privacy Information Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northwestern University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pace University]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ D.C. Forging Surveillance Network ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/30/AR2008043003430.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/30/AR2008043003430.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The D.C. government is launching a system today that would tie together thousands of city-owned video cameras, but authorities don't yet have the money to complete the high-tech network or privacy rules in place to guide it. ]]></description><dc:creator>Mary Beth Sheridan</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Forging]]></category><category><![CDATA[Surveillance]]></category><category><![CDATA[Network]]></category><category><![CDATA[Darrell Darnell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frank Baitman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Council of the District of Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrian Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cathy Lanier]]></category><category><![CDATA[Corey Owens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manhattan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary M. Cheh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phil Mendelson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tacoma (Washington)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Committee on Public Safety]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C. Housing Authority]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lena H. Sun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meg Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Office of Property Management]]></category><category><![CDATA[Petards Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Security and Emergency Management Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[YouTube Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ High Court Upholds Indiana Law On Voter ID ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/28/AR2008042800968.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/28/AR2008042800968.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that states may require voters to present photo identification before casting ballots, opening the way for wider adoption of a measure that Republicans say combats fraud and Democrats say discourages voting among the elderly and the poor. ]]></description><dc:creator>Robert Barnes</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[High]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Upholds]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Law]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Voter]]></category><category><![CDATA[ID]]></category><category><![CDATA[David H. Souter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Paul Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen G. Breyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Court of Appeals]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clarence Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Boehner]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Roberts (Chief Justice)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary G. Wilson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick Leahy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel Alito]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bradley A. Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[League of Women Voters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marion County Election Board]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Election Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Mortgage Broker Sues Lenders in Privacy Breach ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/28/AR2008042802613.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/28/AR2008042802613.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ LendingTree, an online mortgage broker that claims to have reached more than 20 million customers, had a privacy breach that exposed personal data such as income and job information on an undisclosed number of users.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41955005685" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41955005685" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Ellen Nakashima</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Mortgage]]></category><category><![CDATA[Broker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sues]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lenders]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Privacy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Breach]]></category><category><![CDATA[LendingTree LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Randall Scott]]></category><category><![CDATA[IAC/InterActiveCorp]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Allison Vail]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ari Schwartz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barry Diller]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Anderson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jarrod Beddingfield]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Democracy and Technology]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chapman Capital LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Times]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Drezen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Superior Court of California]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zillow Inc.]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Now Boarding at BWI: Security With Hint of Calm ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/28/AR2008042802534.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/28/AR2008042802534.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Soothing blue lights. Light background noise. Brightly dressed employees who have been trained to create a "calmer environment." ]]></description><dc:creator>Del Quentin Wilber and Ellen Nakashima</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Now]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boarding]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[BWI:]]></category><category><![CDATA[Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hint]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Calm]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore-Washington International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Chertoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Transportation Security Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Sobel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kip Hawley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Electronic Frontier Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Citing Risks, Study Suggests Ways To Ease National Security Handoff ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/24/AR2008042403624.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/24/AR2008042403624.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The United States is "lurching toward a period of uncertainty and increased risk" in this election year and during the upcoming presidential transition, according to a new Congressional Research Service study that suggests counterterrorism responses that Congress, the Bush administration and its... ]]></description><dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Citing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Risks,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Study]]></category><category><![CDATA[Suggests]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ways]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ease]]></category><category><![CDATA[National]]></category><category><![CDATA[Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[Handoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Chertoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Congressional Research Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bennie Thompson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Etheridge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madrid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Ward]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oakland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Mueller]]></category><category><![CDATA[FEMA]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Academy of Public Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Counterterrorism Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Office of the Director of National Intelligence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Wacky Canadians Still Believe in Privacy ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/24/AR2008042403617.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/24/AR2008042403617.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff caused a little ruckus up north a couple weeks ago as he was pushing his plan to share databases of international air travelers' fingerprints with the Canadians, Brits and Aussies. ]]></description><dc:creator>Al Kamen</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Wacky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Canadians]]></category><category><![CDATA[Still]]></category><category><![CDATA[Believe]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Privacy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Chertoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ed Rollins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jendayi Frazier]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fred Fielding]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Laxalt]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Timmons]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Michel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Byron R. White]]></category><category><![CDATA[Condoleezza Rice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frank Fahrenkopf]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greenfield]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennifer Stoddart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Nicholson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Linda Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Huckabee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category><category><![CDATA[P.X. Kelley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Swire]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ron Kaufman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Warren E. Burger]]></category><category><![CDATA[William H. Rehnquist]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for American Progress]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dutko Worldwide]]></category><category><![CDATA[Liberia]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Counterterrorism Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stanford University]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[White House National Security Council]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Ban on Genetic-Test Bias May Pass Senate ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042303221.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042303221.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Capping 13 years of political wrangling, the Senate today is slated to pass landmark legislation that would prevent employers and health insurance companies from discriminating against people on the basis of genetic test results.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41955006133" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41955006133" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Rick Weiss</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Ban]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Genetic-Test]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bias]]></category><category><![CDATA[May]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pass]]></category><category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kathy Hudson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sharon F. Terry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Francis Collins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harry Reid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Coburn]]></category><category><![CDATA[23andMe Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Genetics and Public Policy Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Human Genome Project]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Human Genome Research Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Chamber of Commerce]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ From DNA of Family, a Tool to Make Arrests ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/20/AR2008042002388.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/20/AR2008042002388.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ He was a church-going father of two, and for more than 30 years Dennis Rader eluded police in the Wichita area, killing 10 people and signing taunting letters with a self-styled monogram: BTK, for Bind Torture Kill. In the end, it was a DNA sample that tied BTK to his crimes. Not his own DNA. But... ]]></description><dc:creator>Ellen Nakashima</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Family,]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tool]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Make]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arrests]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dennis Rader]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitch Morrissey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Normand Wilson]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wichita]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phyllis Hedge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rudy Guillory]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tania Simoncelli]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Callaghan]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Civil Liberties Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[The George Washington University]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kerri Rader]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barry Scheck]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frederick Bieber]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Schiro]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henry T. Greely]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Rosen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ken Landwehr]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lincolnshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Iberia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick Kent]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard White]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sharon Taylor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shreveport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sonia Suter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Mercer]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Fitzpatrick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Acadiana Crime Lab]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brigham and Women's Hospital]]></category><category><![CDATA[DNA Strategy Board]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kansas State University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lake Charles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Magda Jean-Louis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stanford University]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kansas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ U.S. to Expand Collection Of Crime Suspects' DNA ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/16/AR2008041602729.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/16/AR2008041602729.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The U.S. government will soon begin collecting DNA samples from all citizens arrested in connection with any federal crime and from many immigrants detained by federal authorities, adding genetic identifiers from more than 1 million individuals a year to the swiftly growing federal law enforcemen... ]]></description><dc:creator>Ellen Nakashima and Spencer Hsu</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Expand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Collection]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category><category><![CDATA[Suspects']]></category><category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Erik Ablin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Katie Sepich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Harper]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jon Kyl]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paromita Shah]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pete Marone]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tania Simoncelli]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Callaghan]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Civil Liberties Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cato Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Internal Revenue Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Lawmakers Want FBI Access to Data Curbed ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/14/AR2008041402664.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/14/AR2008041402664.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Bipartisan groups in Congress are pressing to place new controls on the FBI's ability to demand troves of sensitive personal information from telephone providers and credit card companies, over the opposition of agency officials who say they deserve more time to clean up past abuses. ]]></description><dc:creator>Carrie Johnson</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Lawmakers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Want]]></category><category><![CDATA[FBI]]></category><category><![CDATA[Access]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Data]]></category><category><![CDATA[Curbed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerrold Nadler]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bruce Fein]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Kris]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Durbin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jameel Jaffer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeff Flake]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Sununu]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lisa Murkowski]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ron Paul]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russ Feingold]]></category><category><![CDATA[Valerie E. Caproni]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Delahunt]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Civil Liberties Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Miller]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Call for Action On Tax Scams ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/13/AR2008041301979.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/13/AR2008041301979.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The scam goes like this: A bogus tax return using a stolen Social Security number is submitted to the Internal Revenue Service early in the tax-filing season. Because the IRS does not know the return involved identity theft, it sends a refund.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41955008092" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41955008092" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Stephen Barr</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Call]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Action]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Internal Revenue Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas Shulman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russell George]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nina E. Olson]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ken Salazar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Max Baucus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Barr]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Federal Trade Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on Finance]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Administration Set to Use New Spy Program in U.S. ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/11/AR2008041103655.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/11/AR2008041103655.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Bush administration said yesterday that it plans to start using the nation's most advanced spy technology for domestic purposes soon, rebuffing challenges by House Democrats over the idea's legal authority. ]]></description><dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Set]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Use]]></category><category><![CDATA[New]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Program]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fred Thompson (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Chertoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Applications Office]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jane Harman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bennie Thompson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Laura Keehner]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Security Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Stolen NIH Laptop Held Social Security Numbers ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/09/AR2008040903680.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/09/AR2008040903680.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Social Security numbers for more than 1,200 participants in a National Institutes of Health study were stored on a stolen laptop containing their medical records, putting those patients at risk of identity theft, agency officials said yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator>Rick Weiss and Ellen Nakashima</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Stolen]]></category><category><![CDATA[NIH]]></category><category><![CDATA[Laptop]]></category><category><![CDATA[Held]]></category><category><![CDATA[Social]]></category><category><![CDATA[Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[Numbers]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Institutes of Health]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Burklow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elias A. Zerhouni]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Apple Macintosh]]></category><category><![CDATA[BlackBerry Mobile Devices]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joe Barton]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Center for Health Statistics]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Health and Human Services]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ House Staffers Livid Over Web Site ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/08/AR2008040803034.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/08/AR2008040803034.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Working from a cramped loft apartment a mile from the Capitol, a small Internet company has sparked a privacy rights battle with hundreds of angry top House staffers upset that the Web site has begun posting details about their personal finances. ]]></description><dc:creator>Paul Kane</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Staffers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Livid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Over]]></category><category><![CDATA[Web]]></category><category><![CDATA[Site]]></category><category><![CDATA[Congressional Quarterly Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adam Holmes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lorraine C. Miller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Every Click You Make ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/03/AR2008040304052.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/03/AR2008040304052.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The online behavior of a small but growing number of computer users in the United States is monitored by their Internet service providers, who have access to every click and keystroke that comes down the line.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41955009201" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41955009201" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Peter Whoriskey</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Every]]></category><category><![CDATA[Click]]></category><category><![CDATA[You]]></category><category><![CDATA[Make]]></category><category><![CDATA[NebuAd Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Front Porch Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Google Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Basketball Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBA Atlantic Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBA Eastern Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[Embarq Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Knology Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Dykes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boston Celtics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Derek Maxson]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[adidas AG]]></category><category><![CDATA[eMarketer Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony Palermo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ari Schwartz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Hallerman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Democracy and Technology]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Federal Trade Commission]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Centers Tap Into Personal Databases ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040103049.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040103049.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Intelligence centers run by states across the country have access to personal information about millions of Americans, including unlisted cellphone numbers, insurance claims, driver's license photographs and credit reports, according to a document obtained by The Washington Post. ]]></description><dc:creator>Robert O'Harrow Jr.</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Centers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tap]]></category><category><![CDATA[Into]]></category><category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Databases]]></category><category><![CDATA[Central Intelligence Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rhode Island]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sue Reingold]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rhode Island State Police]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[ChoicePoint Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[LexisNexis Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jason Luckenbaugh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Dempsey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marc Rotenberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steven G. O'Donnell]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Democracy and Technology]]></category><category><![CDATA[Electronic Privacy Information Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Financial Crimes Enforcement Network]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Security Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Federal Trade Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Northern Command]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ HINTS FROM HELOISE ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/31/AR2008033102353.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/31/AR2008033102353.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Dear Readers: Identity theft can be devastating to your credit rating. When your personal information is used to commit fraud or other crimes, it can affect your life, too. According to the Federal Trade Commission, there are signs you should be aware of that might signal trouble, such as: ]]></description><dc:creator>Hints From Heloise</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[HINTS]]></category><category><![CDATA[FROM]]></category><category><![CDATA[HELOISE]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Federal Trade Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[Falls Church]]></category><category><![CDATA[M. Sue Middendorf]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Kovacic Appointed New FTC Chairman ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/26/AR2008032603144.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/26/AR2008032603144.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The White House yesterday named William E. Kovacic as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, replacing Deborah Platt Majoras. ]]></description><dc:creator>Annys Shin</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Kovacic]]></category><category><![CDATA[Appointed]]></category><category><![CDATA[New]]></category><category><![CDATA[FTC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chairman]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Federal Trade Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[William E. Kovacic]]></category><category><![CDATA[Google Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Platt Majoras]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jon Leibowitz]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[DoubleClick Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emily Lawrimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[J. Thomas Rosch]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marc Rotenberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Cooper]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Judy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Swire]]></category><category><![CDATA[Consumer Federation of America]]></category><category><![CDATA[Electronic Privacy Information Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason University]]></category><category><![CDATA[The George Washington University]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Proposal Would Clarify Law On Sharing Student Information ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/25/AR2008032501481.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/25/AR2008032501481.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Nearly a year after the shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, the U.S. Department of Education has proposed regulations to clarify when colleges can release confidential information about students who might be a danger to themselves or others.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41955009847" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41955009847" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Maria Glod</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Proposal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Would]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clarify]]></category><category><![CDATA[Law]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sharing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Student]]></category><category><![CDATA[Information]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeff Pollard]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Education]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cho Seung-Hui]]></category><category><![CDATA[LeRoy (Minnesota)]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Council on Education]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason University]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Patients' Data on Stolen Laptop ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/23/AR2008032301753.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/23/AR2008032301753.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A government laptop computer containing sensitive medical information on 2,500 patients enrolled in a National Institutes of Health study was stolen in February, potentially exposing seven years' worth of clinical trial data, including names, medical diagnoses and details of the patients' heart s... ]]></description><dc:creator>Ellen Nakashima and Rick Weiss</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Patients']]></category><category><![CDATA[Data]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stolen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Laptop]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrew Arai]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Institutes of Health]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alison Wichman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elizabeth G. Nabel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Susan Dambrauskas]]></category><category><![CDATA[John T. Burklow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leslie Harris]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Democracy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Information Technology]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[NHLBI Institutional Review Board]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Health and Human Services]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Government Accountability Office]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Office of Management and Budget]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Do-It-Yourself ID Protection ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/21/AR2008032103824.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/21/AR2008032103824.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Fear of identity theft has spawned a huge industry of protection-related products. But you can do a lot of the same things on your own without paying a fee. ]]></description><dc:creator>Kimberly Lankford</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Do-It-Yourself]]></category><category><![CDATA[ID]]></category><category><![CDATA[Protection]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Stephens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Privacy Rights Clearinghouse]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Federal Trade Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Mutual Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christine Nielsen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Identity Theft Resource Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Chubb Corporation]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Rice Apologizes For Breach of Passport Data ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/21/AR2008032100377.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/21/AR2008032100377.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The passport files of all three major presidential candidates were breached by unauthorized searches by four employees, the State Department said yesterday, prompting apologies from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, outrage from the candidates and calls by lawmakers for further probes. ]]></description><dc:creator>Glenn Kessler</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Rice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Apologizes]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[Breach]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Passport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Data]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sean McCormack]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category><category><![CDATA[Condoleezza Rice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Analysis Corp.]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Brennan]]></category><category><![CDATA[McLean (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Portland (Oregon)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stanley Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[David H. Laufman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jonathan Weisman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julie Tate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madonna Lebling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philip Nolan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Central Intelligence Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Counterterrorism Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Google Cleared To Buy Ad Firm ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/11/AR2008031100931.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/11/AR2008031100931.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ PARIS, March 11 -- European regulators Tuesday cleared Google's proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of Web-advertising giant DoubleClick, a cyber-marriage that would combine their abilities to track individuals' private lives and interests online.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41955010891" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41955010891" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Molly Moore and Kim Hart</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Google]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cleared]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Buy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Firm]]></category><category><![CDATA[Google Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Microsoft Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[DoubleClick Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[aQuantive Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yahoo! Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eric Schmidt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Turow]]></category><category><![CDATA[European Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[ChoicePoint Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[LexisNexis Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reed Elsevier Group plc]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brussels]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeff Chester]]></category><category><![CDATA[Annenberg School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Digital Democracy]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Federal Trade Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Microsoft Health vs.Google Health ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/10/AR2008031001532.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/10/AR2008031001532.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Personal health records, or PHRs, were all the buzz at last week's health-tech conference in San Diego -- especially recent entries by Google and Microsoft that have the rest of the industry energized, focused and at least a little bit frightened. ]]></description><dc:creator>Craig Stoltz</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category><category><![CDATA[Health]]></category><category><![CDATA[vs.Google]]></category><category><![CDATA[Health]]></category><category><![CDATA[Microsoft HealthVault]]></category><category><![CDATA[Google Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Microsoft Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Cleveland Clinic]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Reid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kryptiq Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wikimedia Foundation Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ New Ways To Manage Health Data ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/10/AR2008031001613.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/10/AR2008031001613.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ You already bank online and use computer software to do your taxes. So why don't you trust technology to help you manage your health? Microsoft, Google and more than 100 Web sites offering personal health records know the answer, but they're betting they can quell your fears about posting your most... ]]></description><dc:creator>Michael S. Gerber</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[New]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ways]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manage]]></category><category><![CDATA[Health]]></category><category><![CDATA[Data]]></category><category><![CDATA[Google Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Microsoft Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Peel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Microsoft HealthVault]]></category><category><![CDATA[ActiveHealth Management Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Kibbe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sidney Wolfe]]></category><category><![CDATA[India]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aetna Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dallas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gary Marchioni]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Rother]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael S. Gerber]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Basch]]></category><category><![CDATA[AARP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Public Citizen Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Cleveland Clinic]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Advertising Sent To Cellphones Opens New Front In War on Spam ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/09/AR2008030902213.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/09/AR2008030902213.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The spam messages that have long plagued e-mail inboxes are now finding victims through a much more personal route: the cellphone. ]]></description><dc:creator>Kim Hart</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Advertising]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sent]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cellphones]]></category><category><![CDATA[Opens]]></category><category><![CDATA[New]]></category><category><![CDATA[Front]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[War]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Verizon Communications Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Facebook Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[BlackBerry Mobile Devices]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lindsey Abrams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ryan Williams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Simeon Coney]]></category><category><![CDATA[AT&T Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Distributive Networks]]></category><category><![CDATA[eBay Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[IAG Research Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Orbitz Worldwide Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[PayPal Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sprint Nextel Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[T-Mobile International AG & Co. KG]]></category><category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles R. Taylor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ellicott City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Falls Church]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Nelson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Larry Ponemon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lei Shen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lori Small]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Drezen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richi Jennings]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roger Entner]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Francisco]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seattle]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Idol]]></category><category><![CDATA[Consumers Union of U.S. Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Ponemon Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Federal Trade Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[Villanova University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Anti-Terrorism Efforts Hailed ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/06/AR2008030601435.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/06/AR2008030601435.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Islamic extremists have been targeting Europe instead of the United States because the Bush administration has made a domestic attack much more difficult through improvements in U.S. traveler screening and border security, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said yesterday.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41955013283" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/technology/special/10;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=41955013283" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu and William Branigin</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Anti-Terrorism]]></category><category><![CDATA[Efforts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hailed]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Chertoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[DAR Constitution Hall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Glasgow]]></category><category><![CDATA[London]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madrid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denmark]]></category><category><![CDATA[France]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category><category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Portugal]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ National Dragnet Is a Click Away ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/05/AR2008030503656.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/05/AR2008030503656.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Several thousand law enforcement agencies are creating the foundation of a domestic intelligence system through computer networks that analyze vast amounts of police information to fight crime and root out terror plots. ]]></description><dc:creator>Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Ellen Nakashima</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[National]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dragnet]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Click]]></category><category><![CDATA[Away]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tucson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Miranda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Griffin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas McNamara]]></category><category><![CDATA[Timothy Sample]]></category><category><![CDATA[Naval Criminal Investigative Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[FTI Consulting Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Data Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northrop Grumman Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Raytheon Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chuck Violette]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cynthia Butierez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark D. Rasch]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Diego]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Counterterrorism Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Crime Information Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Orange County]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Government Accountability Office]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ DHS Strains As Goals, Mandates Go Unmet ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/05/AR2008030503664.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/05/AR2008030503664.html?nav=rss_technology/special/10</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Stumping for President Bush's ill-fated immigration overhaul in 2006, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff vowed that his department would wrest "operational control" of the nation's borders away from human and drug traffickers within five years. ]]></description><dc:creator>Spencer S. Hsu</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[DHS]]></category><category><![CDATA[Strains]]></category><category><![CDATA[As]]></category><category><![CDATA[Goals,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mandates]]></category><category><![CDATA[Go]]></category><category><![CDATA[Unmet]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Chertoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boeing Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Judd Gregg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael P. Jackson]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dubai]]></category><category><![CDATA