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A Bipartisan step in the right direction, but we still have a long way to go!

Following Edward Snowden’s leaks about the NSA collecting massive amounts of data about phone calls flowing through several companies, President Obama announced limitations on the use of that data in January and said more reforms would follow. Now, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post report a bipartisan bill is about to be unveiled that makes several large changes to the NSA’s controversial bulk collection of phone call metadata. A bill that will be unveiled tomorrow in the House of Representatives by Mike Rogers (R-MI) and “Dutch” Ruppersberger (D-MD) will instead see phone companies store the data only as long as they normally would (18 months or so, under other federal regulations). If the NSA suspects a terrorism link, it can make requests for information from specific phone numbers, and related records up to two hops away.
Read more: http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/24/ruppersberger-rogers-bill-nsa-phone-call-metadata/
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We need to be more vigilant protecting our Personal Data!
Personal Clouds will help solve this problem.
Keep watching this space to learn how to get your Personal Cloud

It does not matter where you are right now, but basically all companies should always do their utmost best to make sure that they do not end up as a victim of a credit card data breach. I suppose one can chalk up the California Department of Motor Vehicles as the latest victim in an ever growing list, where this wide-ranging security breach could have affected up to thousands of citizens, at least according to some sources. It was earlier in the week that MasterCard issued an alert that noted that credit cards which were used online in transactions that had California’s DMV could have resulted in the theft of data and personal information, where among them included credit card numbers, expiration dates, and three-digit security codes.
Read more: http://www.ubergizmo.com/2014/03/california-department-of-motor-vehicles-suffers-credit-card-data-breach/
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REMEMBER!
You don’t own your account when you use Hotmail, Outlook, or Gmail, the company does!
That’s why we say “If your not paying for the product YOU are the product”!

It’s ugly. It’s complicated. And it’s a great opportunity for any webmail provider who isn’t Microsoft. When the news broke on Wednesday that Microsoft had tapped into the e-mail of a Hotmail user who had apparently received stolen software from Alex Kibkalo, a rogue Microsoft employee in Lebanon, I didn’t immediately write about it in this space. It’s a complicated matter, and there’s a lot we don’t know about the details — including the identity of the French blogger who allegedly received the purloined code. (There’s a theory on the web about who the person is, but Microsoft’s criminal complaint doesn’t name a name.) Still, in the fullness of time, I have come to a few conclusions…
Read more: http://time.com/34229/microsoft-hotmail-privacy/
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Zuckerberg says it seems like it will take a long time for reform to occur!

A week before a self-imposed deadline for a review of National Security Agency programs, President Barack Obama sought Friday to assure leading Internet and tech executives that his administration is committed to protecting people’s privacy.
CEOs from Facebook, Google, Netflix and others spent more than two hours with Obama in the Oval Office discussing their concerns about NSA spying programs, which have drawn outrage from tech companies whose data have been scooped up by the government. Joining Obama and the CEOs were Obama’s commerce secretary, homeland security adviser and counselor John Podesta, whom Obama has tasked with leading a review of privacy and “big data.”
Read more: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/obama-meets-facebook-google-netflix-dropbox-privacy/
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Microsoft says they won’t read your Private emails sent through their Hotmail service, but they can and they will!  Read this disturbing article below.

Technology companies have spent months denying they know anything about broad government spying on people who use their Internet services.  But a legal case filed this week against a former Microsoft employee shows the power these companies themselves have to snoop on their customers whenever they want to.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/21/technology/microsofts-software-leak-case-raises-privacy-issues.html?_r=0
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There have always been bad bosses. Bad bosses with excessive amounts of your Personal Data would be even worse!
Shouldn’t employers and employees treat each other with mutual respect?

About 12 years ago, I worked in a large office in Camden Town. It wasn’t a particularly easy time in my life, and, for various reasons, I found myself spending much of the working day firing off angry personal emails and scouring the web – until one day when I arrived at work to discover that my internet access had been suspended.
Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/technology-gadgets/is-your-boss-spying-on-you-your-employer-could-be-using-a-host-of-new-technologies-to-snoop-on-you-like-never-before-30109772.html
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Cybercriminals will stop at nothing to steal your Personal Data!

Cybercriminals are exploiting the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines plane by luring users to websites purporting to offer the latest news in order to steal their personal information, an Internet security firm warned Tuesday.
Trend Micro urged Internet users to exercise caution when clicking on links shared on social media for news of flight MH370, which mysteriously vanished from the radar in the early hours of March 8 while on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.  There is no trace of the aircraft or the 239 people on board…
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/18/cybercriminals-use-fake-malaysia-flight-mh370-websites-to-steal-personal-data/
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A useful guide to managing your Facebook Privacy settings.
A few minutes spent here can lead to a happier (online) life!

The first thing you have to realize about Facebook: Nothing you put there is truly private. Yes, you can control how users see or don’t see your profile. But every time you like a product or even look at a page, the company itself is taking note. This doesn’t mean that some day Facebook will malevolently release your every click to the world. But it does mean that Facebook is not your private diary, and what you do on the website gets collected and cataloged. That’s worth keeping in mind whenever you use the service.
Read more: http://time.com/25448/the-comprehensive-guide-to-facebook-privacy-settings/
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A “must read” article about why people should care more about government Internet surveillance.
The lack of public alarm at government internet surveillance is frightening, but perhaps it’s because the problem is difficult to convey in everyday terms

As someone who is supposed to know about these things, I’m sometimes asked to give talks about computing to non-technical audiences. The one thing I have learned from doing this is that if you want people to understand technological ideas then you have to speak to them in terms that resonate with their experience of everyday things.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/16/apathy-gchq-snooping-internet-surveillance
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Europe leads the way towards giving people the right to control their Personal Data.

If you’re worried about Internet companies using-and-abusing your data, you might want to consider moving to Europe, where privacy legislation is much further along than in the United States.
On Wednesday the European Parliament voted to approve legislation that would give people greater control over their personal information. Europe’s privacy measure is a work in progress. It cannot become law until it has the approval of national governments, including those of Germany and Britain, which have been reluctant to take up the rules because they fear its impact on businesses. But the Parliament’s vote is still important because it sets a high standard against which other proposals can be judged.
Read more: http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/13/imagine-if-companies-had-to-ask-before-using-your-data/
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