Category Archives: privacy

Tick tock – WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum quits Facebook due to privacy intrusions | TechCrunch Koum sold WhatsApp to Facebook in 2014 for a jaw-dropping $19 billion. But since then it’s more than tripled its user count to 1.5 billion, making … Continue reading

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Uh…. be careful out there? Shock: Facebook Is Tracking You Even If You’re Not on Facebook | Lifestyle

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So Amazon – Apple CEO Tim Cook: Ads That Track You Are ‘Creepy’ | Breitbart “To me it’s creepy when I look at something and all of a sudden it’s chasing me all the way across the web,” declared Cook. … Continue reading

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Wozniak gives Zuck the metaphorical finger – Steve Wozniak quit Facebook – Business Insider Steve Wozniak, who founded Apple alongside Steve Jobs, said his old company did a much better job respecting user privacy.

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News Boulderites don’t need – Keep Facebook From Spying on You Without Deleting Your Account This helps protect your privacy but it does come with a few downsides. It may break services if you log into them with Facebook and … Continue reading

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Delete your google search history. Here is how, courtesy of DuckDuckGo.com…. (apologies for the formatting, which I’m sure is from copying this from an html email) In our last email we talked about how ads track you across the net … Continue reading

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Criticize Google and all of a sudden Googlebots are busy visiting. This blog gets almost no attention, which is most likely about what it deserves. That said, of the last 17 visitors, 11 are Googlebots. It sure seems the way … Continue reading

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Good luck with that – The Web’s Creator Looks to Reinvent It – The New York Times Tim Berners-Lee and other computer scientists are pondering newer technologies to create a web with more privacy and less government control. There are … Continue reading

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5 Privacy Laws I Would Put on the Books Right Now

Not a snowballs chance in hell: 5 Privacy Laws I Would Put on the Books Right Now – Popular Mechanics. Treat Email More Like Mail Protect Metadata Curtail Those Click-Through Agreements Emphasize Reciprocity Abolish Immunity for Abuse of Surveillance Power … Continue reading

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Just how snoopy is that app?

When Other Apps Track Your Location, This App Tells | MIT Technology Review. Lindqvist says Android phone users who used a prototype of his app were shocked to discover how frequently they were being tracked. “People were really surprised that … Continue reading

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Mikko Hypponen: How the NSA betrayed the world’s trust — time to act

Be careful out there.

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NSA uses data to map Americans’ social connections, report says | Fox News

Nothing to see here, move along – NSA uses data to map Americans’ social connections, report says | Fox News. For almost three years the National Security Agency has been tapping the data it collects to map out some Americans’ … Continue reading

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NSA snooping: How long until it reaches six degrees of separation?

The NSA Admits It Analyzes More People’s Data Than Previously Revealed – Philip Bump – The Atlantic Wire. But Inglis’ statement was new. Analysts look “two or three hops” from terror suspects when evaluating terror activity, Inglis revealed. Previously, the … Continue reading

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Catch me if you can: False Alarm

Moscow-Cuba plane detour sparks Snowden speculation — RT News.

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IRS mistakenly posted thousands of Social Security numbers on website

And you want the government to have access to computerized medical records? IRS mistakenly posted thousands of Social Security numbers on website | Fox News. You gotta be nuts.

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Obama snooping for what purpose?

Obama CFPB Credit Watchdog Snoops, Shares Personal Financial Data – Investors.com. Big Brother is watching you — in even more ways than previously known. It turns out the National Security Agency and Internal Revenue Service aren’t the only federal agencies … Continue reading

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Germans Loved Obama. Now We Don’t Trust Him. – NYTimes.com

sMalte Spitz: Germans Loved Obama. Now We Don’t Trust Him. – NYTimes.com. In Germany, whenever the government begins to infringe on individual freedom, society stands up. Given our history, we Germans are not willing to trade in our liberty for … Continue reading

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Blackout: Defense Department Blocks All Articles About NSA Leaks From ‘Millions’ of Computers

The countries in the best of hands: Blackout: Defense Department Blocks All Articles About NSA Leaks From ‘Millions’ of Computers – Washington Whispers (usnews.com).

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Rand Paul: Bring him on…

The Rand Paul moment – Rich Lowry – POLITICO.com. You won’t find him on any Federal Election Commission disclosure forms, but Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is the biggest in-kind donor to the incipient Rand Paul for president campaign. … Continue reading

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Sharyl Attkisson sends a message to her hacker(s)

Sharyl Attkisson: I think I know who hacked into my computers « Hot Air. She covers some of the same ground with O’Reilly that she covered in yesterday’s CBS segment, but he finally gets her to confirm near the end … Continue reading

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