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Mass emails that don’t mask the list of recipients do more than violate privacy. They can be really annoying.

Maybe I’m naive to expect a certain savviness about privacy from the FTC, especially just before it convenes a group of experts in privacy and cybersecurity at a conference in Washington, DC, next week. I certainly didn’t expect the agency to accidentally send out a list of every attendee’s email address. But, it did.
The Federal Trade Commission on Friday sent an email advising participants to show up early to get a seat, and left all the recipients on the list visible to each other.
Read more: http://www.cnet.com/news/doh-ftc-reveals-attendees-email-addresses-before-privacy-conference/
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A lack of appropriate oversight and transparency will “ultimately stifle fundamental freedoms”, the UN experts on civil liberties said.

United Nations warning comes as Twitter, Facebook and Google insist they should be allowed to tip off suspected terrorists and criminals being monitored by the security services.
New snooping laws could result in “mass surveillance” and have a “chilling effect” in freedom of expression, the United Nations human rights watchdog has warned.
A lack of appropriate oversight and transparency will “ultimately stifle fundamental freedoms”, the UN experts on civil liberties said.
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/12088009/UN-warns-snooping-laws-will-have-chilling-effect-on-freedom-of-expression.html
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Happy New Year 2016!!!

Since the Snowden revelations, consumers have become increasingly wary of how their data is shared or stored – as are clients of technology storage vendors.
Earlier this year, a survey by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found that 77 per cent of consumers were very or fairly concerned that organisations are not collecting and keeping personal details secure, while 67 per cent believe companies are requesting unnecessary data or collecting details they do not need.
Read more: http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/feature/2440163/the-biggest-privacy-stories-of-2015
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A recent study actually found that most big hotel chains have vulnerable computer systems.

The company is still investigating how its system was compromised.
Hyatt, the Chicago-based hotel chain, announced Wednesday that it had discovered a virus on computers used to process payments for some of its hotel locations.
Read more: http://time.com/money/4160969/hyatt-credit-card-hacking-malware/
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The reality is if you put a back door in, that back door’s for everybody, for good guys and bad guys!!

In a strong defense of encryption, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook said that there was no trade-off between privacy and national security when it comes to encryption.
“I think that’s an overly simplistic view. We’re America. We should have both,” he told Charlie Rose on CBS’ 60 Minutes program on Sunday, according to a transcript of the interview posted online.
Read more: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3017517/security/tim-cook-says-there-isnt-a-trade-off-between-security-and-privacy.html
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Any information about you and your friends can be collected and sold onto advertisers. There is simply no way to know where it ends up!!

You might think that talking about Facebook and privacy in the same breath is a little odd. The two just don’t go hand in hand, surely? Trying to use Facebook whilst maintaining your privacy is an exercise in futility, right? Well, yes, it’s certainly true that hitting a social network is not the thing to do if you want to fly under the radar, but many people do not realize just how easy it is to unwittingly hand over reams of personal information to companies and persons unknown.
Read more: http://betanews.com/2015/12/19/stop-doing-quizzes-on-facebook-if-you-place-any-value-on-your-privacy/
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An increase in public use of drones has been accompanied by, in many cases, a lack of awareness about airspace and privacy laws!
Drones can be bought off the shelf now but many buyers do not understand airspace and privacy laws surrounding them.
Drone related calls to the police in England have risen by more than 2,000% in the last three years, Sky News has learned.
Freedom of Information figures show in 2013 officers recorded 19 calls compared to at least 461 in 2015 and in the last year the number rose by over 160%.
Read more: http://news.sky.com/story/1607283/calls-to-police-over-drones-up-by-2000-percent

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A compact list of privacy information that you can act upon immediately!

Preserving your Privacy in Windows 10 is a free ebook for computer users who already have upgraded a system to Microsoft’s new operating system Windows 10, or plan to do so in the future.
Read more: http://www.ghacks.net/2015/12/15/free-ebook-preserving-your-privacy-in-windows-10/
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While Germans and Swedes like it far less!!

Every year, the UK’s telecom watchdog Ofcom releases a report on the state of the international comms market. This year’s report — which includes data from countries including the US, UK, France, Germany, and Japan — offers a number of interesting (if familiar) insights, including the decline of fixed phone lines around the world, the relative expense of mobile data in the US, and varying morning smartphone routines around the world.
Read more: http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/10/9884506/ofcom-report-telecoms-data
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It’s Mozilla’s aim to “build an Internet that respects users, puts them in control, and creates and maintains trust!

Mozilla just added one more iOS 9 ad blocker to the party. Focus by Firefox is a free content blocker for Safari on Apple’s mobile OS. A company blog post announced the new tool on Monday, saying it will make the mobile browsing experience more fluid by blocking trackers such as those used for ads, analytics and social media.
Read more: http://www.techspot.com/news/63070-mozilla-has-brand-new-ad-blocker-ready-iphone.html
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