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San Francisco Loses Legal Battle Over Warning Public About Cell Phone Radiation
Major phone companies appear to be winning the battle to suppress information about possible cancer risks from mobile phone usage, Reuters reports: San Francisco city leaders, after losing a key round...
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Two dead, Three Injured In Attempt To Retrieve Cell Phone Dropped Into...
Not to make light of the loss of life here, but I sincerely doubt that the cell phone was even going to work after falling into an open-pit toilet. If it did, would want to put it next to their face,...
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U.S. Supreme Court Updates Legal Understanding of Privacy Rights
The United States Supreme Court has banned warrantless cell phone searches, effectively updating the legal framework of privacy rights to keep up with 21st century technology. This report from the...
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Your Filthy Smartphone Is Crawling With Your Personal Mix Of Staph, Strep,...
Your smartphone is filthy, and I don’t just mean what’s in your browser’s search history folder. A group of scientists have discovered that our cell phones carry our their owner’s individual devil’s...
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Fake Cell Phone Towers Could Be Intercepting Your Calls
August GSM Interceptor Map ESD via Popular Science According to Popular Science, there are at least 17 phony cell phone towers across the United States. Their purpose? It’s not yet clear, but once a...
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Berkeley Drafts Cell Phone Health Warnings
It looks as though the message of Berkeley, California, filmmaker Kevin Kunze’s documentary Mobilize is getting through to lawmakers, starting in his hometown, as a bill to require retailers to provide...
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New York Times Tech Writer on Dangers of Mobile Phones
White AppleWatch with Screen by Justin14 (CC) Nick Bilton has reached the rarefied level of tech writers who matter. He is one of the big dogs of Silicon Valley tech reporting, plying his trade for the...
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How To Make A Secret Phone Call
Photo: pug50 (CC) Keeping your phone calls private is insanely difficult as Fast Company‘s DJ Pangburn finds out from Curtis Wallen: …Amid pervasive sensors, drones, and data collection, making a...
View ArticleBerkeley Passes Cell Phone Ordinance
The Berkeley City Council unanimously passed a “Right to Know” ordinance on Tuesday. It requires cellphone retailers to provide consumers with information that warns them to keep a minimum safe...
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Mobile Phones May Increase Skin Cancer Risk
Anyone who’s seen the alarming documentary Mobilize knows that cell phones are associated with cancer risks – but skin cancer is a new one, per Reuters via Yahoo News, and it applies to all kinds of...
View ArticlePolice Are Using Phone Tracking as a Routine Tool
Reports Eric Lichtblau in the NY Times: Law enforcement tracking of cellphones, once the province mainly of federal agents, has become a powerful and widely used surveillance tool for local police...
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Police Can Copy Your Cell Phone’s Contents In Under Two Minutes
Matt Brian writes on The Next Web: It has emerged that Michigan State Police have been using a high-tech mobile forensics device that can extract information from over 3,000 models of mobile phone,...
View ArticleJudge Rules Against Man Suing Over Sickness From Wi-Fi And Cellphones
A blow for the millions of Americans who claim to be allergic to the electromagnetic waves given off by 21st century technology. Arthur Firstenberg should perhaps join the Wi-Fi refugees living in......
View ArticleNot-So-Smart Phone? Italian Court Rules Man’s Tumor Linked to Cell Phone Use
Via MedCityNews: An Italian court has ruled that plaintiff Innocenzo Marcolini was correct in his claim that cell phone usage led to his brain tumor. However, others aren’t convinced: The court’s...
View ArticleAt CDC, a Debate Behind Recommendations on Cellphone Risk
Feel the corporate influence between the lines of this New York Times story about internal debate at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) whether or not to alert the American public to... The post At...
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