Internet privacy

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• Blog Matters Update

  
  Total Survivalist Libertarian Rantfest — Authority: 142
  I have been getting a lot of spam lately in the comments. It doesnt take a ton of time to click reject but it sort of bums me out when it says I have 6 comments and 3 are spam. I am not talking about the Chinese (I think?) comments. They are almost surely adds for getting perscription meds or about how to make that ...
  5 days ago

• Building an Online Bulwark to Fend Off Identity Fraud

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 672
  Building an Online Bulwark to Fend Off Identity Fraud Identity fraud has been on the rise, as criminal cunning may be mixing with desperation during the downturn. Schemes seem to multiply daily, as scammers often half a world away dream up new ways to steal data to enrich themselves. According to Javelin Strategy ...
  1 week ago

• The Onion: Is Anyone Safe From Google?

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 721
  Worried about the info-hungry beast that is Google going after your personal details with grabby-handed glee, greedily harvesting private information about your tastes, desires, shopping habits and geographical location with impunity? There is a way out, in the form of a remote mountain village sealed off from the ...
  2 weeks ago

• UK Internet surveillance plan to go ahead

  
  statism watch — Authority: 148
  This is the same as the Canadian plan working its way through the legislative process. You’d better write your MP to get it stopped now. Flashback: Security boss calls for end to net anonymity | Case for Internet spying not closed | Planned Internet, wireless surveillance laws worry watchdogs | UK ISPs ...
  2 weeks ago

• Internet Censorship, the Great Firewall of China

  
  Wael Isa — Authority: 149
  With the arrival of the 2008 Olympic Games to Beijing, it seems that this would be an appropriate time to focus on The Great Firewall of China, or the Golden Shield Project (as it is officially known). The Golden Shield is a censorship and surveillance program run by China’s Ministry of Public Service. While the ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Google Dashboard - A Move to Address Peoples Privacy Worries

  
  Spy Review — Authority: 124
  Google has launched its Dashboard which allows a Google user greater and easier access to his account and also permits him to change his privacy and other settings. This is because Google was on the hot seat for the potential its services had to invade a user’s privacy. Google Docs, Google Desktop and Gmail and ...
  2 weeks ago

• iPhone app developer Storm8 faces class action suit for privacy ...

  
  Linux/Unix News - motd.ambians.com — Authority: 165
  Privacy on the Internet is a serious matter. Google announced today that they now allow users to manage their privacy settings while using Google applications and tools.
  3 weeks ago

• Google Dashboard Tells You What It Knows

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 626
  Google is starting to promote its Dashboard feature --a tool that tells you what Google knows about you and in some ways seems to address any privacy concerns that folks might have.  It takes the Google applications you use and lists how you use it and what information you have stored (always a good thing to know ...
  3 weeks ago

• Google Dashboard Opens User Data

  
  The Blogs at HowStuffWorks TechStuff — Authority: 123
  Privacy in the digital age is a matter of some concern. One of the things about electronic files is that theyre easy to duplicate and transfer. And lots of companies are storing lots of personal information. After all, theyre using it to market goods and services to you. Its big business.Thats why Googles recent move ...
  3 weeks ago

• Case Report – Court denies ex parte order to preserve Facebook

  
  All About Information — Authority: 116
  On October 29th, Price J. of the Ontario Superior Court of justice denied a motion for an ex parte order for preservation of a plaintiff’s Facebook page. The motion was brought by a defendant to a personal injury claim. It brought its motion ex parte on the basis that the plaintiff would be likely to destroy ...
  3 weeks ago

• Privacy Protection in a Digital Age

  
  Washington DC web designer — Authority: 116
  You would think that with identity theft and credit card fraud, people would be more hypersensitive about putting their personally identifiable information (PII) online. But, with the proliferation of social media networks like Facebook and MySpace and social dating sites like Match.com and eHarmony, people are ...
  3 weeks ago

• Facebook advertising with laser precision

  
  Washington DC web designer — Authority: 116
  WASHINGTON, DC Search Marketing expert updateRecently, I started noticing some advertisements in my Facebook page for used tandem recumbent bicycles.  “How serendipitous,” I thought … I just happen to be talking back and forth with my friends (through Facebook) about buying a used tandem recumbant ...
  3 weeks ago

• And thats why email encryption is such a no brainer

  
  Mary to Many — Authority: 126
  You dont send hugely personal information on postcards; you put it in an envelope. Sure your email is that personal - and that protected? Surely the ISP doesnt read your email and wont just hand it over to someone without telling you? No, no, maybe, yes. In the UK RIPA and other orders say the police can get your ...
  3 weeks ago

• Remember why the Patriot act needs to be abolished

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 583
  With the USA Patriot Act set to expire at the end of this year, and Congress mulling around even more nefarious replacements for it, it’s time to keep in mind the major items in it that make it evil (as compiled by the ACLU ): Search your home and not even tell you … by conducting secret ...
  4 weeks ago

• Global Phishing Survey: Trends and Domain Name Use in 1H2009

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 672
  Global Phishing Survey: Trends and Domain Name Use in 1H2009 (PDF; 673 KB) The battle against phishing is a seesaw contest. On one side are the phishers, looking for better ways to steal money and Internet users’ personal data. On the other side is an array of security and software providers, financial ...
  4 weeks ago

• There’s anonymity on the Internet. Get over it.

  
  Freedom to Tinker — Authority: 528
  In a recent interview prominent antivirus developer Eugene Kaspersky decried the role of anonymity in cybercrime. This is not a new claim – it is touched on in the Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency Report and Cybersecurity Act of 2009 , among others – but it misses the mark. Any Internet ...
  4 weeks ago

• ‘HIV Prostitute’ Blog Hoax Zooms on Cyber-Privacy

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 631
  Earlier this month, a BBS post purportedly written by a prostitute grabbed the attention of web surfers and news outlets . In addition to revealing an HIV infection, the post also included hundreds of supposed clients’ telephone numbers. Later, however, it was revealed that the post was not written by ...
  4 weeks ago

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