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• in Social Media
  Facebook, U.S. Lawmakers Issues Warning To Employers On Passwords
  Facebook And U.S. Lawmakers Takes A Stand Against Obtaining Passwords Of Employees By Employers
  by joshner / on Mar 24, 2012
• in Technology
  Somebody's Watching You
  Have you given thought to how technology is compromising your privacy?
  by jeanneachille / on Nov 8, 2010
• in Politics
  Even Senators Are Complaining About Facebook
  Senator Charles Schumer (and friends) wrote to Facebook about their new opt-out privacy settings. This is important stuff, youse guys.
  by sussman / on Apr 27, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “internet privacy”

 

• Live @ IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit Madrid: IBM Product Manager Mark Frigon On Smarter Web Analytics & Privacy

  
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  Mark Frigon is a senior product manager with IBM’s Enterprise Marketing Management organization, a key group involved in leading IBM’s Smarter Commerce initiative. Mark’s specialties are in Web analytics (he joined IBM as part of its acquisition of Coremetrics) and Internet privacy, an issue that has come to the ...
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• HTTPS Everywhere: Get a secure connection for almost every website

  
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  We all are concerned about our security while browsing internet. While browsing you may have noticed that some sites are secured as HTTPS while most of them are not protected with such security and run with HTTP connections. Most of the web hosting servers use HTTPS for secure shopping and banking web sites while ...
  4 days ago

• Lawrence Lessig: Internet Privacy Is an Oxymoron [VIDEO]

  
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  Lawrence Lessig called Internet privacy an “oxymoron” in a backstage interview during this year’s Mashable Connect , held in Orlando, Florida. Lessig added that the solution lies in building what he called an “identity layer” into the Internet. “In this world, [Internet privacy] is an oxymoron,” said ...
  4 days ago

• Lawrence Lessig: Internet Privacy Is an Oxymoron [VIDEO]

  
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  Lawrence Lessig called Internet privacy an “oxymoron” in a backstage interview during this year’s Mashable Connect , held in Orlando, Florida. Lessig added that the solution lies in building what he called an “identity layer” into the Internet. “In this world, [Internet privacy] is an oxymoron,” said ...
  4 days ago

• Twitter backs browser privacy project

  
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  Micro-blogging service Twitter has declared its support for an initiative that lets people browse the web without being monitored. The “Do Not Track” initiative stops firms tracking people as they visit several different websites. The monitoring is done to help advertisers craft ads to a user’s preferences and ...
  4 days ago

• Teliasonera In Authoritarian Regime Spy Scandal

  
  Celebrity Gossip Celebrity Rumours Hollywood and UK Gossip Humour Blog — Authority: 132
  Swedish news show Uppdrag Granskning recently revealed information which suggests that Swedish telecommunications giants Teliasonera have been helping authoritarian regimes and dictatorships to spy on their citizens by selling them the high-tech, state of the art surveillance technology to do so. According to the ...
  4 days ago

• French watchdog CNIL to meet Google over privacy policy

  
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  The search giant Google consolidated 60 privacy policies into one single agreement in March. The EU expressed concern over the legality and impact of the change. France’s information commission, the CNIL, said it was not yet “totally satisfied” with Google’s explanation of the amendments. “We want to ...
  6 days ago

• F.T.C. Charges Myspace With Breaking U.S. Law in Sharing Users’ Personal Information

  
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  WASHINGTON — Continuing its crackdown on Internet privacy violations, the Federal Trade Commission charged Myspace on Tuesday with violating federal law by breaching its promise not to share users’ personal information, including their Web browsing habits, with advertising companies. The advertisers that tracked ...
  2 weeks ago

• VPNs and the Future Of File-Sharing

  
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  Ever since Napster was taken down more than a decade ago, file-sharing websites had come and unfortunately disappeared. However, it is said that file-sharing can’t be truly stopped, and people have turned to VPNs in order to share files. A study from Lund University in Sweden shows that there has been a 40% ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stop letting websites track you – DNT+

  
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  ABINE helps prevent more than 600 technologies from tracking you on the web. Do Not Track Plus is an excellent add-0n to help keep this from happening.  (Thanks to Mickey)
  2 weeks ago

• Consumer Reports: Facebook privacy problems on the rise

  
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  The annual Internet privacy and security report from the consumer watchdog reveals startling numbers on how much Facebook knows about its nearly 900 million members, and how much we freely share — information mined by employers, insurers, the IRS, divorce lawyers, as well as identity thieves and other criminals. ...
  3 weeks ago

• File-sharers look to VPNs to overcome Pirate Bay ban

  
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  Young people are increasingly turning to virtual private networks (VPNs) to anonymise their free sharing of music and movies, a new study has suggested. Sweden’s Lund University indicated that there had been a 40% rise in the number of 15 to 25-year-olds using such services since 2009. Many believe a clampdown on ...
  3 weeks ago

• Top searches at the Consejo General del Poder Judicial

  
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  Chart-toppers: Mossos who torture.
  3 weeks ago

• Techlicious: How to Browse the Web Anonymously

  
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  Easy steps to protect your browsing history on your personal computer is easy. Related posts: Techlicious: Easy Way to Prevent Password Theft I used to reuse the same set of passwords... Techlicious: 8 Tools for Protecting Your Online Reputation 8 great tools that can help you curate your... Techlicious: ...
  3 weeks ago

• Facebook Wants to Know About Your Organ Donor Status

  
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  Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg have announced a new feature thats either extremely invasive or just socially responsible, depending on your online-privacy views: "Starting today, you can add that youre an organ donor to your timeline, and share your story about when, where or why you decided ...
  3 weeks ago

• three reasons CISPA Will Adapt or Die within the Senate [OPINION]

  
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  The Cyber Intelligence Discussing and Protection Act, also known as CISPA, removed home of Reps late a week ago. CISPA aims to permit private companies to talk about details about cybersecurity risks with each other along with the authorities. Advocates state that discussing helps strengthen American networks’ ...
  3 weeks ago

• Tim Berners Lee on web privacy

  
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  Last week this Kat unfortunately learnt that the combination of English rainy weather, wet railway station floors and someone else running the other way in an almighty hurry cannot end well.  Although she has badly sprained her hind paw and is spending time in her Kat Basket whilst the Technicolor swelling ...
  3 weeks ago

• Quick fix for Hotmail password bug

  
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  Microsoft has rushed out a fix for a serious bug in its Hotmail webmail services. The bug allowed a hacker to reset the password for a Hotmail account, locking out its owner and giving the attacker access to the inbox. The fix was put together because the bug was starting to be actively exploited online. [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Personal Data Protection: Coordination Needs to Transcend State Boundaries

  
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  Asahi , Japan   23 April 2012           Edited by Lydia Dallett With the spread of social networking services on smartphones, and the expansion of cloud businesses centrally handling bulks of user data, the rapid change of telecommunications calls for a new approach toward the protection of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Spotflux: Enjoy A Safer, More Secure & Encrypted Internet Browsing [Windows & Mac] -(from Mark @ Journal Of Curious Things)

  
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  Spotflux: Enjoy A Safer, More Secure & Encrypted Internet Browsing [Windows & Mac] Sometimes, navigating the streets and lanes of the World Wide Web can be a dangerous and scary experience. Not everyone out there are nice friendly honest people so there’s a high chance of viruses, malware and people trying ...
  3 weeks ago

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