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	<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>S Korea child &#8217;starves as parents raise virtual baby&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://technologyimpacts.com/2010/03/06/s-korea-child-starves-as-parents-raise-virtual-baby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A South Korean couple who were addicted to the internet let their three-month-old baby starve to death while raising a virtual daughter online, police said.
The pair fed their own premature baby just once a day in between 12-hour stretches at an internet cafe, the official Yonhap news agency reported.
Police officer Chung Jin-won told Yonhap they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School Spycam Case Raises FBI Eyebrows</title>
		<link>http://technologyimpacts.com/2010/03/06/school-spycam-case-raises-fbi-eyebrows/</link>
		<comments>http://technologyimpacts.com/2010/03/06/school-spycam-case-raises-fbi-eyebrows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Somebody&#8217;s fibbing in the case of a Pennsylvania school that using Webcams in loaned laptops, and now the FBI may have to sort out the truth.
CNN reports that federal authorities are investigating the case of 15-year-old Blake Robbins v. the Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania, a class action lawsuit uncovered by BoingBoing last week. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One in four Germans wants microchip under skin: poll</title>
		<link>http://technologyimpacts.com/2010/03/06/one-in-four-germans-wants-microchip-under-skin-poll/</link>
		<comments>http://technologyimpacts.com/2010/03/06/one-in-four-germans-wants-microchip-under-skin-poll/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It sounds like something from a sci-fi film, but one in four Germans would be happy to have a microchip implanted in their body if they derived concrete benefits from it, a poll Monday showed.
The survey, by German IT industry lobby group BITKOM, was intended to show how the division between real life and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile fingerprint scanners for ALL UK Police</title>
		<link>http://technologyimpacts.com/2010/03/06/mobile-fingerprint-scanners-for-all-uk-police/</link>
		<comments>http://technologyimpacts.com/2010/03/06/mobile-fingerprint-scanners-for-all-uk-police/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Every police force in England and Wales will be equipped with mobile fingerprint scanners to check the identity of suspects in the street.
Up to 3,000 devices, the size of a mobile phone, will enable officers on patrol to cross-reference prints with national records.
Senior officers claimed the scheme would speed up criminal inquiries, bring more people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waste watchers? British trash bins being fitted with microchips, some fear garbage spies</title>
		<link>http://technologyimpacts.com/2010/03/06/waste-watchers-british-trash-bins-being-fitted-with-microchips-some-fear-garbage-spies/</link>
		<comments>http://technologyimpacts.com/2010/03/06/waste-watchers-british-trash-bins-being-fitted-with-microchips-some-fear-garbage-spies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologyimpacts.com/?p=576</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[London - Monitored by millions of cameras and spied on by a secretive domestic intelligence network, Britons could be forgiven for feeling up in arms over the latest threat to their privacy: Intelligent garbage bins that can monitor how much they throw out.
Although the technology is already nearly a decade old, a U.K. privacy rights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Fake fingerprint&#8217; Chinese woman fools Japan controls</title>
		<link>http://technologyimpacts.com/2009/12/09/fake-fingerprint-chinese-woman-fools-japan-controls/</link>
		<comments>http://technologyimpacts.com/2009/12/09/fake-fingerprint-chinese-woman-fools-japan-controls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A Chinese woman managed to enter Japan illegally by having plastic surgery to alter her fingerprints, thus fooling immigration controls, police claim.
Lin Rong, 27, had previously been deported from Japan for overstaying her visa. She was only discovered when she was arrested on separate charges.
Tokyo police said she had paid $15,000 (£9,000) to have the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climategate: was Russian secret service behind email hacking plot? - Telegraph</title>
		<link>http://technologyimpacts.com/2009/12/08/climategate-was-russian-secret-service-behind-email-hacking-plot-telegraph/</link>
		<comments>http://technologyimpacts.com/2009/12/08/climategate-was-russian-secret-service-behind-email-hacking-plot-telegraph/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There was growing speculation [or distraction from the main issue of Global Warming fraud?] on Sunday that hackers working for the Russian    secret service were responsible for the theft of controversial emails in the    ‘Climategate’ scandal.
Thousands of emails, from the University of East Anglia&#8217;s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Webmasters fume as Google profiles signed-out searchers</title>
		<link>http://technologyimpacts.com/2009/12/08/webmasters-fume-as-google-profiles-signed-out-searchers/</link>
		<comments>http://technologyimpacts.com/2009/12/08/webmasters-fume-as-google-profiles-signed-out-searchers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Google is now &#8220;personalizing&#8221; results even when users have not logged into its web-dominating search site. And SEO types aren&#8217;t too happy about it.
Personalization is a euphemism for a Google-controlled practice that involves tweaking your search results according to your past web history. Mountain View was already doing this with users who had signed in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Used computers toxifying kids, polluting oceans</title>
		<link>http://technologyimpacts.com/2009/12/08/used-computers-toxifying-kids-polluting-oceans/</link>
		<comments>http://technologyimpacts.com/2009/12/08/used-computers-toxifying-kids-polluting-oceans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Out of Africa comes the disturbing news of entire regions being toxified and polluted by the industry of recycling used computers. There are millions of discarded computers on this planet, and many of them are ending up in African villages as well as elsewhere, including China, India, Nigeria, the Philippines and Vietnam, replete with highly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual quests lead to real love and death for World of Warcraft fans</title>
		<link>http://technologyimpacts.com/2009/11/24/virtual-quests-lead-to-real-love-and-death-for-world-of-warcraft-fans/</link>
		<comments>http://technologyimpacts.com/2009/11/24/virtual-quests-lead-to-real-love-and-death-for-world-of-warcraft-fans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technologyimpacts.com/?p=551</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When it began it was just a computer game. Now it is seen as a cultural force  that sparks love affairs, breaks marriages and creates “sweat shops” to  satisfy a black market in virtual goods.
World of Warcraft marks its fifth birthday today as something more than  just an online role-playing game where [...]]]></description>
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