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Nomi tracked about nine million mobile devices within the first nine months of 2013, according to the government’s complaint.

If you make a promise in your privacy policy, you need to honor it.
That simple principle was the basis for the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) complaint against Nomi Technologies — the first enforcement action by the FTC against a retail tracking company.
Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/retail-tracking-company-violated-privacy-policy-ftc-complaint-alleges-n349006
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Google and Facebook have started to openly resist the call to create back doors for state surveillance!

The Department of Homeland Security is setting up shop in Silicon Valley, with the agency’s head Jeh Johnson pushing for easier access to our private data. Naturally, both Google and Facebook have started to openly resist this call to create backdoors for state surveillance. At the RSA security conference, Google’s Keith Enright told MIT Technology Review that any attempt to breach his company’s encryption would harm civil liberties.
Read more: http://www.engadget.com/2015/04/24/google-facebook-no-backdoors-thank-you-jeh-johnson/
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What do you think – does it make you uncomfortable to know that shops are analyzing your behaviour? Or do you think it will make for a better shopping experience?

Threatened by competition from online retailers, shops are introducing new technologies to find out more about you, the customer. Do you find shops analysing your behaviour creepy, or are you happy to accept it?
Eye spying on you
You may not realise it, but when you’re sifting through shirts to find the right size, or deliberating over which brand of shampoo to buy, what you’re doing is both fascinating and valuable to retailers.
Read more: http://conversation.which.co.uk/energy-home/shops-supermarkets-spying-smartphone-tracking/
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Users of social media are generally unaware of how much of their fragmented personal data is collated from across social media sites—and even taken from the content of their free, web-hosted emails (e.g. Gmail)—and how this can be used to build detailed personal profiles.

How many of us read the terms and conditions when signing up to a social media account or downloading a new app? And does agreeing to these rules offer us any real protection from big business looking to mine our data for profit?
Researchers are now aiming to address the ethical challenges around social media by designing new tools and services to help citizens protect their privacy and take more control over their own data.
Read more: http://phys.org/news/2015-04-rights-privacy-digital-dignity.html
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The new security feature aims to allow “non-technical” people to use encryption with the click of a button after an initial setup of a few minutes.

Yahoo said Sunday it plans to introduce “end to end encryption” for email this year to boost privacy protection for users concerned about snooping from governments or hackers.
The Internet giant demonstrated new security and safety features for its email service at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, ramping up efforts to boost privacy since the 2013 revelations about government surveillance.
Read more: http://phys.org/news/2015-03-yahoo-email-encryption-year-end.html
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“Privacy, to me, is protecting and securing my activities; that they are personal to myself and not visible to the whole wide world,” Eschelbeck said.

Google has a new sheriff keeping watch over the wilds of the Internet.
Austrian-born Gerhard Eschelbeck has ranged the British city of Oxford; cavorted at notorious Def Con hacker conclaves, wrangled a herd of startups, and camped out in Silicon Valley.
He now holds the reins of security and privacy for all-things Google.
In an exclusive interview with AFP, Eschelbeck spoke of using Google’s massive scope to protect users from cyber villains such as spammers and state-sponsored spies.
“The size of our computing infrastructure allows us to process, analyze, and research the changing threat landscape and look ahead to predict what is coming,” Eschelbeck said during his first one-on-one press interview in his new post.
Read more: http://phys.org/news/2015-04-google-chief-privacy.html
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Twitter will hand over personal information when it is legally required to do so, and reminded users that “You are what you tweet!”

Twitter has altered its privacy policies for non-US users and announced plans to move their data onto servers in Ireland.
The company did not mention any political intention behind the move, but it may be a reaction to the PRISM revelations which showed that the internet is full of intelligence agency backdoors.
Twitter has informed affected users in a privacy policy update, explaining that their data will be moving closer to where they live, and that they should not experience any change to the service.
Read more: http://m.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2404585/twitter-takes-non-us-data-to-ireland-in-cloud-privacy-move
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The most important piece of advice is to be vigilant and to not share unnecessary
information on social networking sites and other public places!

An overwhelming majority of British adults are now concerned about the online security of their private information, the threats posed by hackers and the possibility of unauthorised access to their data. This was the key finding of recent YouGov research in the wake of the Edward Snowden leaks.
Snowden’s mass surveillance revelations elevated data privacy concerns, prompting debate over ethics and the power that Governments can gain from gathering data on private citizens. These massive data collection efforts had and still have the potential to erode online privacy as they contradict the core principles of the internet, namely privacy and internet freedom.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/catalin-cosoi/protecting-your-data-online_b_7062408.html
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Most people don’t realize their data is available to the public, potentially offering themselves up as victims of identity theft or similar fraud!

Google has indexed thousands of backup drives.
Each day millions of people across the globe create backups of their files. These backups are supposed to offer a measure of assurance that their files are safe, but that’s not entirely true.
In fact, depending on how you’ve configured the device, your backups are freely available online to anyone who knows what they’re looking for.
Read more: http://www.citeworld.com/article/2906460/cloud-computing/lost-in-the-clouds-easily-compromised-personal-information.html
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Have your online habits changed post Snowden?

It’s been nearly two years since the first government surveillance programs were leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. And while not much has changed since then, you’d think that with all the coverage every subsequent leak got on mainstream media, most people are reasonably well informed on the matter and taking precautions. But that’s not necessarily true.
Read more: http://www.techspot.com/news/60335-weekend-open-forum-have-online-privacy-habits-changed.html
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