privacy

Privacy is a big concern both online and in people's personal lives, but many people are still electing to have their position be tracked, and feel invulnerable. This same GPS technology has been used by the FBI to track people's cars.


The handy GPS that people access through their smartphones may also create a privacy problem without their knowledge. Photos taken with the smartphone's camera may be set to imbed the GPS coordinates of where the photo was taken, in the photo. When users upload their photos to sharing sites like Facebook, they're also releasing information about their location that most people tend to want to keep private.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “privacy”

• in Social Media
  Jodia Arias: Texts to Death
  Be careful what you text. Obsolete privacy laws allow police to track cell phones without a warrant.
  by sweaterart / on May 21, 2013
• in Technology
  Your Hard Drive is a Snitch
  The 5th Amendment and hard drive encryption
  by jwalk6 / on Apr 25, 2013
• in Android
  SafeApp Certificate Looks to Quell Privacy Concerns in Android Market
  Long standing privacy issues in Android could be solved with new SafeApp Certificates.
  by gsimon / on Mar 9, 2013

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “privacy”

 

• Bits Blog: Tumblr Founder Says Site to Stay ‘Independent’ Effort

  
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  A day after Yahoo’s board approved a deal to acquire Tumblr, Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s chief, and David Karp, Tumblr’s founder, reassured users that Tumblr would operate as it did before. See the rest here: Bits Blog: Tumblr Founder Says Site to Stay ‘Independent’ Effort
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• Busted: Microsoft intercepts, decrypts, and reads your Skype messages

  
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  Skype used to be what you would use to send secure, encrypted, and untraceable messages to friends, family, and business associates all over the world. Not any more. According to a test by Ars Technica , Microsoft is intercepting, decrypting, and reading at least some Skype messages — to the point where URLs ...
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• Real Madrid says coach Jose Mourinho will leave at end of season

  
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  MADRID (AP) — Real Madrid says coach Jose Mourinho will leave at end of season. Visit link: Real Madrid says coach Jose Mourinho will leave at end of season
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• ‘I’ve Got Nothing to Hide’ and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy

  
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  ‘I’ve Got Nothing to Hide’ and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy Daniel J. Solove, George Washington University Law School San Diego Law Review, Vol. 44, p. 745, 2007 GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 289 Abstract: In this short essay, written for a symposium in the San Diego Law Review, ...
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• Taiwan vows to protect Filipinos from attacks

  
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  Taiwan yesterday ordered all law-enforcement personnel to step up the protection of Filipinos on the island, after a suggestion that Manila might evacuate its nationals from the island after hearing reports of attacks targeting them. “We have instructed all prosecutorial and law-enforcement agencies to step up ...
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• Li Keqiang visits New Delhi and vows to end disputes on border with India

  
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  China and India agreed yesterday to launch a fresh round of talks to settle their long-running border disputes. They also pledged to draw up a roadmap to reach a “dynamic balance” in trade between the two emerging economic powers. We need to improve the border mechanisms…and make them more efficient Li Keqiang, ...
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• South Korea’s complaint about US use of term ‘Sea of Japan’ is dismissed

  
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  Academics and the Japanese government have dismissed the complaint by South Korea’s defence ministry about US Forces Korea referring to the body of water between the Korean peninsula and Japan as the “Sea of Japan”. Read more from the original source: South Korea’s complaint about US use of term ‘Sea of ...
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• Drug trafficking charges for US Virgin Islands environment officer

  
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  Federal agents have arrested the top enforcement officer for the US Virgin Islands environment agency on drug trafficking charges after he was allegedly caught with a cache of cocaine on a government patrol boat. Read more here: Drug trafficking charges for US Virgin Islands environment officer
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• Beware of pitfalls in buying property

  
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  Signing a contract to buy a property (a flat, an office block or whatever) marks a point of no return. You have passed from the zone of negotiations to that of binding commitment. At least that is the idea. Once you sign the contract it should be all over bar the shouting. In principle, it only remains for the seller ...
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• Divorced Briton confesses to killing his children in France

  
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  A 48-year-old divorced Briton locked in a bitter custody battle has confessed to killing his two young children by slitting their throats near the eastern French city of Lyons. The bodies of a five-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy were discovered on Saturday afternoon in the man’s apartment in Saint-Priest, a ...
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• Cyclone Mahasen a ‘dress rehearsal’ for Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims

  
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  Myanmar’s victims of sectarian strife were spared the full force of Cyclone Mahasen, but many are now returning to flimsy tents in flood-prone camps with the monsoon season weeks away. Myanmar’s Rakhine state is pockmarked with makeshift settlements for up to 140,000 people – mainly Rohingya Muslims – ...
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• 2014 Subaru Forester 2.5i Premium

  
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  2014 Subaru Forester 2.5i PremiumThe new Forester doesn’t feel much different than its predecessors, and that’s just fine by us. The big story with the 2014 Subaru Forester is that you get a lot of car for the money. Just $24,320 buys a spacious crossover with plenty of cargo room, all-wheel drive, heated front ...
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• The future of passwords: how sharing with your friends can beef up your security and reduce websites’ data breach risks

  
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  If you have online accounts, you’re going to start seeing a lot of two new technologies that help keep your personal data secure and private online. One calls upon your friends to prove that you’re you if you need to recover a forgotten password. The other lets you create and use a password on a [...] The post ...
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• Under the Shadow of the Drone

  
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  Under the Shadow of the Drone by James Bridle, Brighton seafront. Photo by Roberta Mataityte I closed my report of the exhibition The Air Itself is One Vast Library on the promise that id come back to my last visit to Brighton with a few words about the crime scene-style outline of a drone that James Bridle ...
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• Noise, Vibration & Harshness: The Slightly Eco Supercar: LaFerrari Versus P1

  
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  Noise, Vibration & Harshness: The Slightly Eco Supercar: LaFerrari Versus P1Thousands thronged the Ferrari stand at Geneva’s motor show for the debut of the machine called simply, and not a little curiously, LaFerrari. Thousands thronged the Ferrari stand at Geneva’s motor show for the debut of the machine ...
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• Noise, Vibration & Harshness: The Slightly Eco Supercar: LaFerrari Versus P1

  
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  Noise, Vibration & Harshness: The Slightly Eco Supercar: LaFerrari Versus P1Thousands thronged the Ferrari stand at Geneva’s motor show for the debut of the machine called simply, and not a little curiously, LaFerrari. Thousands thronged the Ferrari stand at Geneva’s motor show for the debut of the machine ...
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• Bloomberg Privacy Breach – Crisis Management Required! by Jonathan & Erik Bernstein

  
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  Revelation of decades-long data access for reporters creates reputation crisis While Bloomberg ‘s data terminals, which serve up volumes of intricately detailed financial information to Wall Street pros on a daily basis, have enjoyed a reputation as must-have tools, a privacy breach scandal has landed the company ...
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• Disaster prep efforts after Boston bombings draw privacy criticism

  
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  An attempt to collect information on patients treated during the Boston bombings by the citys Public Health Commission for disaster preparedness and response planning purposes is being treated as a potential HIPAA violation. read more
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• Request for data on Boston Marathon bombing victims draws privacy protests

  
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  An attempt to collect information on patients treated during the Boston bombings by the citys Public Health Commission for disaster preparedness and response planning purposes is being treated as a potential HIPAA violation. read more
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• Will Yahoo Buying Tumblr Mean Less Privacy for Users?

  
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  Tumblr announced on Monday it was being bought by tech giant Yahoo! for $1.1 billion in one of the largest social media buyouts in years, but while the purchase will make Tumblr’s founders rich, it may bode poorly for the privacy protections of Tumblr users. In a recent report card from the Electronic Frontier ...
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