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'Privacy concerns' are driving people off of Facebook
It’s easy to forget that Facebook is totally optional. We all complain at every slight change to the site, but remember that we’re all only prisoners to the degree that we allow ourselves to be. If you try to quit, it will show you pictures of your friends and ask if you’re really sure that you want to disown them—as if that’s what you’re doing—but Facebook will eventually release you at your request.
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Now Is The Time To Reform Outdated Electronic Privacy Laws
Given everything that's been going on with the stories of NSA surveillance lately, it's more clear than ever that our electronic privacy laws are broken.
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NSA issues letter of ‘reassurance’ directing employees to share it with friends, family and co-workers
Think all these stories about the NSA's surveillance overreach and abuses are getting to the folks there? Kevin Gosztola at Firedoglake has the details on a letter the NSA has given to all of its employees and contractors, which it tells them they can print out to share with "loved ones" to reassure them that their NSA-working spouse/parent/child/best friend isn't, technically, evil.
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NSA Apologist Says The NSA's Actions Are Fine Because 'Privacy Is Dead'
When we last discussed columnist Froma Harrop, she was acting as a surveillance state apologist. She took some of the usual paths (directing snark at "clueless" internet users, conjuring up the threat of terrorism) and some unusual ones (claiming those opposed to the surveillance state only did so because they "hate Obama"). All in all, it was the perfect storm of condescension and cluelessness that NSA apologists do all too well.
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FBI has been using drones since 2006, watchdog agency says
Operating with almost no public notice, the FBI has spent more than $3 million to operate a fleet of small drone aircraft in domestic investigations, according to a report released Thursday by a federal watchdog agency.
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NSA employee spied on nine women for six years without detection
A National Security Agency employee was able to secretly intercept the phone calls of nine foreign women for six years without ever being detected by his managers, the agency's internal watchdog has revealed.
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Microsoft received 37,000 end-user data requests in first half of year
Judges and police investigators are on track to submit about the same number of requests to Microsoft for end user data this year as they did in 2012, according to figures released Friday. Microsoft received 37,196 such requests worldwide in the first six months of the year, meaning it’s on track to field about the same number of requests as last year, when just over 75,000 were submitted.
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How Google's New Web Tracking Plan Could Give It A Monopoly Over Facebook And Apple
Google's plan to replace cookies with a new tracking device called AdID is, in some respects, a giant "screw you!" to Microsoft, Facebook and Apple.
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Does Gmail violate federal and state wiretapping laws?
Google’s practice of scanning Gmail users’ correspondence in order to generate targeted advertisements may violate state and federal laws, ITworld reported.
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Yahoo proves it has a reckless and moronic attitude to email security
The new owners of recycled Yahoo email accounts are receiving private emails, containing personal information, not intended for them. None of this would have happened if Yahoo hadn't initiated the reckless, harebrained scheme in the first place.
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John McAfee's $100 D-Central aims to outsmart the NSA
The McAfee founder says the gadget will be able to create decentralized networks that won't be accessible by governments.
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What Can Germans Teach Us About Privacy?
Asking delicate questions in Berlin, the capital of personal data protection.
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Ex-Microsoft privacy adviser: I don't trust company after NSA revelations
Caspar Bowden says he was unaware of Prism data-sharing program when he worked at software firm
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6 reasons we share too much online, according to behavioral scientists
The conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley is that nobody cares about online privacy, except maybe creeps, wingnuts, and old people. Sure, a lot of us might say that we don't like being tracked and targeted, but few of us actually bother to check the "do not track" option in on our web browsers.
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Lavabit was under FBI pressure to decrypt Snowden connections, court reveals
When Lavabit shut down in the wake of Edward Snowden's leaks, it left a big question unanswered: just what did the US government want that was supposedly so egregious? Thanks to newly unsealed court documents obtained by Wired, we now know much more of the story.
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The NSA is Making Us All Less Safe
Cory’s right, of course. And that’s why the recent New York Times story on the NSA’s systematic effort to weaken and sabotage commercially available encryption used by individuals and businesses around the world is so important—and not just to people who care about political organizing, journalists or whistleblowers.
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Who owns this website? That information may soon be “need to know” only
The governing body that oversees the internet's naming system is considering wide-ranging changes to the way domain names are registered. The changes are designed to protect the privacy of people who own websites, but critics argue that such a move would make cybercrime harder to fight and possibly even stifle future innovation. When you buy...
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Can we trust the spying state?
How worried should we be by the state's capability to spy on us? Top secret documents, leaked by former American intelligence analyst Edward Snowden, have revealed the huge capacity of Britain and America's intelligence agencies - GCHQ and the NSA - to capture communications.
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NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users
The National Security Agency has made repeated attempts to develop attacks against people using Tor, a popular tool designed to protect online anonymity, despite the fact the software is primarily funded and promoted by the US government itself.
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Russia to monitor 'all communications' at Winter Olympics in Sochi
Athletes and spectators attending the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February will face some of the most invasive and systematic spying and surveillance in the history of the Games, documents shared with the Guardian show.
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