Tag: privacy
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#OpenSSL Bug Allows Hackers to See Private Communication
from engadget.com: The world hasn’t yet recovered from the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL and now there’s news of a new bug affecting the popular open-source security package. This recently announced, and already patched, exploit could allow an attacker to see and modify traffic between an OpenSSL client and an OpenSSL server. This sounds worse than…
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Americans Will Never Have the ‘Right to Be Forgotten’
from time.com: Americans shouldn’t expect the same privacy protections as in Europe, where a top court has ruled citizens have a “right to be forgotten” Privacy has just taken on new meaning in Europe. The European Union’s highest court has ruled that any of the region’s 500 million citizens can compel Google and other search…
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#Google ‘Accidentally’ Removes Vital #Privacy Feature From #Android Devices
from EFF.org: Yesterday, we published a blog post lauding an extremely important app privacy feature that was added in Android 4.3. That feature allows users to install apps while preventing the app from collecting sensitive data like the user’s location or address book. After we published the post, several people contacted us to say that…
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Ex-NSA director gets a taste of his own eavesdropping
from msnbc.com: Former Bush National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden learned the hard way Thursday afternoon that you never know who’s listening. Hayden was on an Amtrak Acela train reportedly attempting to give an anonymous quote to a newspaper reporter disparaging the Obama administration’s handling of the fallout from revelations that the NSA spied on…
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11m Users Abandon #Facebook on Privacy Concerns
from alalam.ir: Millions of Facebook users are reportedly abandoning the social media giant at an unprecedented rate over privacy concerns. New research shows Facebook has lost a total of 11 million users, nine million in the US and two million in Britain. Researchers at the University of Vienna analyzed 600 users and found they quit…
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German email providers ‘seen as surveillance safe haven’
from BBC: #NewsFromElsewhere: Web users are turning to German email providers to avoid US state surveillance, it seems. Telecoms firm Freenet has reported an 80% increase in new users in the last three weeks, while web hosting company 1&1 says its email providers GMX and web.de have seen a six-figure increase, reports Der Spiegel. It…
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7 Powerful Ways to Maintain Your Privacy and Integrity Online
from Activist Post.com: The recent NSA leaks from whistleblower Ed Snowden have publicly confirmed that digital privacy does not exist. The federal government and intelligence agencies have direct server access to the world’s most popular sites and services including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and more. This means that all of your data when using these…
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Texas set to enact nation’s strongest e-mail privacy bill
from arstechnica.com: Assuming that Texas Governor Rick Perry does not veto it, the Lone Star State appears set to enact the nation’s strongest e-mail privacy bill. The proposed legislation requires state law enforcement agencies to get a warrant for all e-mails regardless of the age of the e-mail. On Tuesday, the Texas bill (HB 2268)…
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U.S. House Shamefully Passes CISPA
For the second year in a row, the House voted to approve CISPA, a bill that would allow companies to bypass all existing privacy law to spy on communications.
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Google Faces EU Action Over Privacy Policy
Six European countries, including France and Britain, have launched a joint action against Google to get the US Internet giant to scale back on new monitoring powers that watchdogs believe violate EU privacy protection rules.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode141 – Flu Shot Narcolepsy, Bye Bye Scanners, Privacy Glasses
https://archive.org/download/20130124NewWorldNextWeek141/20130124_NewWorldNextWeek141-c.mp4 Download MP4 Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Evidence Grows for Narcolepsy Link to GSK Swine Flu Shot Breaking: Scientists To Resume Work With Lab-Bred Bird Flu…
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Peace Revolution: Episode065 – Panopticon: All Watched Over by Machines of Eugenic Race
Peace Revolution: Episode065 – Panopticon: All Watched Over by Machines of Eugenic Race
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#DataDump: #Mars, Meteorite, Mystery and more
Curiosity Lands Safely on Mars – “most high-tech interplanetary rover ever built sent a signal to Earth”* Man will walk on Mars within a generation, says Astronomer Royal* 14-year-old hit by 30,000 mph space meteorite* Opening the X-Files in Australia* Proposed Privacy Law Demands Court Warrants for Cloud Data* Appeals Court OKs Warrantless Wiretapping* Flame…
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#DataDump: Rules, Reality and More
First Newspapers, Now TV: The Internet Reformation Rolls On // Porn Studios Accused of Screwing Their Fans in BitTorrent Lawsuits // Atari Teenage Riot Goes for the Lulz With Anonymous // University of Oregon physicists help discover elusive particle // Future Shock: Bryan Singer Discusses His New Web Series, ‘H+’
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#DataDump: Log-Ins and Paper Planes
Scientists estimate billions of habitable planets in Milky Way // Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Finds Apollo 11 Engines on Ocean Floor // Gigantic paper plane soars over Arizona skies // James Murdoch reportedly resigns from three boards // Audit faults Apple supplier’s factories in China