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Google announces privacy changes across products; users can’t opt out
Google said Tuesday it will require users to allow the company to follow their activities across e-mail, search, YouTube and other services, a radical shift in strategy.See it on Scoop.it, via Privacy...
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Data Privacy Day 2012 ~ Security Garden
What may begin as a casual Facebook update or an innocuous tweet could easily come back to haunt you down the road. Unlike writing something on the bathroom wall, which can be easily painted over,...
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DARPA Has a Simple Solution to Authentication: Reading Users' Minds | Popular...
Having contributed in large part to the Internet’s very existence, DARPA is now setting out to make its secure networks more secure. But rather than relying upon the conventional notion of a...
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Censoring Twitter? « Digital Frontiers
Late last week, on January 26th, the micro-blogging site Twitter said it was implementing changes that would allow it to withhold content from specific nations upon request. In other words, if a...
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Defending the Last Free Place on Earth - The Dollar Vigilante Blog -
Today was the day the internet went semi-dark. Sites like Reddit, Wikipedia and thousands of others went dark in protest of the latest attempt at a violent terrorist attack on the internet, the...
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Hackers-for-Hire Are Easy to Find
A feud between two billionaire brothers—one claiming the other commissioned hackers to snoop into his email for just a few hundred dollars—suggests how simple and affordable online espionage has...
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RAW DATA: Rough transcript of FBI call allegedly hacked by Anonymous
A sensitive conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard was recorded by the hacking group Anonymous, it claimed Friday.See it on Scoop.it, via Privacy and Surveillance
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Regulators Take Action Against Apps That Abuse Your Privacy ( - Security )
Regulators Take Action Against Apps That Abuse Your Privacy ( Security ) If you've been waiting for government regulators to step in and do something about apps that collect and transmit your data...
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White House Pushes for New Privacy Codes of Conduct
IDG News Service (Washington, D.C., Bureau) — The U.S. White House will push for online businesses to adopt new privacy codes of conduct, including consumer rights to control what information websites...
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Online surveillance bill setup costs estimated at $80M - Politics - CBC News
It's going to cost at least $80 million to implement the government's lawful access bill to force internet and telecommunications service providers to collect customer information in case police need...
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Identity fraud rise tied to smartphones
Nearly 12 million Americans were victims of identity theft in 2011, an increase of 13% over 2010, according to a new report. The rise in the use of smartphones and social media by incautious consumers...
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10 Things You Need To Know About Today's Facebook Privacy Changes
This morning Facebook announced a new set of privacy settings that they hope will be sufficient enough to make them essentially permanent, as Mark Zuckerberg described during his presentation.See it...
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NYPD secret surveillance of students 'disgusting'
NEW YORK — At New York's Columbia University, fear that police might secretly be infiltrating their lives has spread beyond the Muslim student population.See it on Scoop.it, via Privacy and Surveillance
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Privacy and Security Fanatic: Smile for the drone: Coming to police stations...
Bug-sized spies and Big Brother's prying eyes, domestic surveillance drones are coming to your local cops soon. When the EFF, ALCU and EPIC all sound a red alert surveillance warning, if you care...
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UK hacking scandal reaches into culture of illegal payoffs at Rupert...
After months of revelations, the hacking scandal in Britain has zeroed in on Rupert Murdoch's prized possession, The Sun newspaper, which has produced enormous profits for the News Corp. empire but...
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Stop Insurance Spies: Lockdown Your Privacy Settings - Forbes
Doing the right thing to protect your social media privacy can have an unexpected and sometimes beneficial side-effect: Insurance companies won’t be able to check up on you as easily. I figure it’s...
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Obama introduces privacy Bill of Rights for online users
The Obama administration has released a modern-day Bill of Rights to address protecting web users' privacy rights and offering them more control of the information they share. "As the internet evolves,...
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Google Privacy Policy: The End of Google as You Know It - International...
By consolidating its privacy policies and altering its core product, Google has separated itself from the reason everyone loved it. Before, it was simply the world's greatest search engine. Now, it's...
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Google 'sneaking away citizens' privacy' says EU commissioner - Telegraph
Google is "sneaking" citizens' privacy away with its new policies and appears to be ignoring data protection treaties, the European commissioner of justice has said. Viviane Reding delivered a stinging...
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Censorship is inseparable from surveillance - Cory Doctorow
There was a time when you could censor without spying. When Britain banned the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses in the 1920s and 1930s, the ban took the form on a prohibition on the sale of copies...
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