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Disconnect Search, Built By Ex-Google And Ex-NSA Engineers, Lets You Use Google Without Tracking
Started as a side project by then-Googler Brian Kennish back in 2010 to cut out ad tracking during a person's Facebook browsing session, Disconnect has gone on to raise funding (twice), to work on multiple browsers and sites, and create apps for specific users (e.g., kids), and take on more..
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The NSA's Hugely Expensive Utah Data Center Has Major Electrical Problems And Basically Isn't Working
Well, this is good news for those with privacy concerns about the NSA and terrible news for those concerned about government spending. The National Security Agency’s new billion-dollar-plus data center in Bluffdale, Utah was supposed to go online in September, but the Wall Street Journal’s Siobhan Gorman reports that it has major electrical problems and that the facility known as “the country’s biggest spy center” is presently nearly unusable
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Freedom Of Information Requests At The NSA Are Up 1,054% Year-Over-Year
According to leaked emails, freedom of information requests at the National Security Agency (NSA) have skyrocketed more than 1,000 percent this year, following revelations from Edward Snowden that detailed the agency’s mass surveillance programs.
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The 10 Countries With the Most Internet Freedom
Iceland has the fewest barriers to Internet freedom, according a recent study ranking countries based on obstacles to access, limits on content and violations of user rights. Iceland scored just six out of a possible 40 points. (The lower number of points, the higher level of Internet freedom.)
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Privacy Primer
They’re listening to us too much, and watching too. We’re not happy about it. The feeling is appropriate but we’ve been unclear about why we’re feeling it.
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A Conversation With Lavabit’s Founder
For nearly a decade, Ladar Levison ran Lavabit, a secure e-mail service that served as an alternative for a tech-savvy crowd that cared about privacy. Then, last July, after two months of haggling with the F.B.I., Mr. Levison shuttered the service rather than give the government untrammeled access to his users’ communications and everything he had built.
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‘Don’t Snoop Me, Bro’ promises total online privacy with the turn of a key
The problem with online privacy is that it’s a giant pain. Sure, we’d all like to protect our identities, stop hackers from intercepting our sensitive Internet activity, and keep the prying eyes of the NSA shielded from our ‘incognito mode’ sessions. But that usually involves hours of research, a bevy of settings, complicated encryption setups, and more. Who has time for all that?
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Save the World, Help the NSA?
A New America study ponders privacy for new Internet users in an "age of tracking."
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Facebook No Longer Lets Users Hide Their Profiles in Search Box
Facebook announced Thursday its plans to finalize the removal of the privacy setting that allows users to control who can search their name on the social-media site.
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Government shutdown won't delay lawsuit over NSA phone spying
In the wake of the government shutdown, the U.S. National Security Agency requested that a lawsuit seeking to stop some its controversial surveillance activities be delayed until the government resumed operations. A U.S. District Court judge denied the request, Polito reported.
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Why Have All Human Cultures Evolved to Value Sexual Privacy?
Acts of public sex typically represent a reversal of cultural norms.
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Skype under investigation in Luxembourg over link to NSA
Skype is being investigated by Luxembourg's data protection commissioner over concerns about its secret involvement with the US National Security Agency (NSA) spy programme Prism, the Guardian has learned.
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Mark Zuckerberg Buys the Four Houses Surrounding His Own House ‘Cuz He Can
Are you a Facebook user who wants privacy? Well, too bad, you can’t have it anymore. The site’s chief-executive-billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, however, can now have all the privacy he wants, since he just purchased four houses adjacent to his home in Palo Alto, the San Jose Mercury News reports.
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Hillary Clinton: We need to have a ‘sensible adult conversation’ about spying
Hillary Clinton has called for a “sensible adult conversation”, to be held in a transparent way, about the boundaries of state surveillance highlighted by the leaking of secret NSA files by the whistleblower Edward Snowden. In a boost to British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, who is planning to start conversations within government about the oversight of Britain’s intelligence agencies, the former US secretary of state said it would be wrong to shut down a debate.
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Stanford researchers discover 'alarming' method for phone tracking, fingerprinting through sensor flaws
One afternoon late last month, security researcher Hristo Bojinov placed his Galaxy Nexus phone face up on the table in a cramped Palo Alto conference room. Then he flipped it over and waited another beat. And that was it. In a matter of seconds, the device had given up its “fingerprints.”
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Deutsche Telekom to Push for National Routing to Curtail Spying
Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany’s biggest phone company, is lobbying the government to enforce tougher privacy protection by helping to keep German Internet traffic within national borders. The company is asking the German government for help in setting up a framework for keeping Internet traffic including electronic mail within the country, rather than having e-mails and data routed through foreign hubs, it said in an e-mail today, confirming a report in WirtschaftsWoche.
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Secure email service Lavabit to reopen for locked out users
THE EMAIL SERVICE Lavabit, which shut down in the wake of Edward Snowden's NSA whistleblowing revelations, is briefly reopening its servers to users.
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Yahoo to make SSL encryption the default for Webmail users. Finally.
Beginning Jan. 8, Yahoo will enable encryption by default for users logging into its Web-based mail service, the company has told The Washington Post.
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The NSA might have collected your email contacts
The latest report? The NSA is collecting email address books and IM contact lists from both U.S. and foreign accounts, according to a document leaked to The Washington Post. This is not a small-scale operation. Up to 250 million contact lists are scooped up by the NSA every year, according to the Post, which adds up to "a sizable fraction of the world's e-mail and instant messaging accounts."
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When Snapchats become mugshots: Cops can see your 'private' pics
Sending a Snapchat, at this point, is like sending a photo over regular text message. People you don’t want viewing your private pics are still going to see them — even the cops.
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