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Daily Archives: June 2, 2014
12,000 Europeans ask Google to forget them
Those are the results from just Day 1 of a web form to allow Europeans to request that outdated information about them be removed from Google’s search results. Will those numbers continue, or is there just a pent-up demand of people wanting to blip their existence off the internet? 
NSA facial recognition program scours web for images to identify suspects
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has been collecting millions of images from the web and storing them in a database that can be mined by facial recognition software for identifying surveillance targets, a new report says.
Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde arrested in Sweden
Which must have come as a surprise to him, because despite facing a jail sentence and a fine of 46 million Swedish krona ($6.9 million, £4.1 million), Sunde wasn’t even sure whether there was an outstanding warrant for his arrest in Sweden.
Say hello to your vending machine – it might be watching you!
You walk up, ready to quench your thirst with sucrose syrup, and the beverage vending machine decides to take your photo, guess your age, discern your gender and then target-market at you.
Monday review – the hot 22 stories of the week
Catch up with everything we’ve written in the last seven days – it’s weekly roundup time.