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Hello Barbie may be a corporate spy that could jeopardize children’s privacy!

Hello Barbie, an interactive doll with artificial intelligence, has made her big debut. She’s now available for pre-order online in the U.S., just in time for the lucrative Christmas shopping season.
This Barbie’s added accessory is a showstopper — she can make real conversation.
But an American advocacy group wants to silence the chatty doll, claiming Hello Barbie may be a corporate spy that could jeopardize children’s privacy.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/business/hello-barbie-1.3292361
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Businesses must realise that consumers are starting to demand more control over their personal data and act accordingly or they will be “destroyed” by innovative newcomers!

Businesses must realise that consumers are starting to demand more control over their personal data and act accordingly or they will be “destroyed” by innovative newcomers.
That’s the view of Amit Pau, managing director of Ariadne Capital, an investment and advisory firm specialising in tech start-ups. Speaking at an event organised by industry body the Mobile Enterprise Forum (MEF), Pau said that a new model is rapidly emerging.
Read more: http://m.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2431935/abuse-consumers-personal-data-and-your-business-will-be-destroyed-says-ariadne-capital-md-amit-pau
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“We feel a significant obligation to help our customers protect their information, and the only way we know how to do that is to encrypt.”

“Privacy is a key value of our company,” Cook began, in a manner similar to his previous statements on the topic. “We think it will become increasingly important to more and more people over time as they realize that intimate parts of their lives are in the open and being used for all kinds of things.” He explained that Apple encrypts personal information and keeps it on your phone, drawing an unstated contrast with Google, whose fundamental business model involves storing personal data in the cloud where the company can slice it, dice it, and monetize it with advertising.
Read more: http://www.fastcompany.com/3052475/tim-cook-gets-passionate-about-privacy-at-the-wall-street-journals-tech-conference
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The researchers said they found 256 apps — together accounting for an estimated 1 million downloads — that used the affected software from Youmi.

Apple has pulled several apps from its store, following security researchers’ findings that hundreds of iOS apps have been accessing users’ private data.
In a report published Sunday, researchers at security firm SourceDNA said they found 256 apps that were violating Apple’s security guidelines by using software that was able to collect users’ personal information, including their email and device identification numbers.
Read more: http://mashable.com/2015/10/19/apple-removes-apps/
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Across Europe, the report said 77 million people are using ad blockers, a 35 percent increase in the past year!

In a frank post on Thursday, a senior executive of the largest online advertising trade group admitted that the surge in online ads over the years — and the accompanying performance issues — have alienated many.
Read more: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2993927/online-ad-industry-battling-ad-blockers-admits-it-messed-up.html
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If business and government leaders don’t adopt better protocols now, Millennials will soon rise up and demand it!!

Another piece of research has been released showing that Millennials don’t trust the government or businesses when it comes to protecting their data online.
The survey, which was commissioned by Intercede and took in the opinions of 1000 US consumers and 1000 UK consumers aged from 16 to 35, found that a large number of respondents had “none” or just “a little” trust in terms of data protection when it came to particularly social media and online retail.
Read more: http://www.itproportal.com/2015/10/13/millennials-have-little-confidence-that-government-or-businesses-will-protect-their-data/
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When people are willing to pay to stop ads, it gives you an idea of how fed up they are!!

There were close to 200 million downloads of ad-blocking software by mid-2015, according to research firm PageFair, but only 1.6 percent of the blocking was done on mobile devices rather than computers.
That could be changing as mobile ad-blocking software becomes increasingly popular across the globe, particularly after the high-profile move by Apple to incorporate it directly into its latest iPhone and iPad operating system iOS9.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-mobile-ad-blockers-growing-popularity-threatens-huge-losses-2015-10
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Ads annoy and interrupt us. They track us, follow us around, and report back on our behavior.   Can you blame people for wanting to block them?

Lots of smart and thoughtful people have weighed in already on the inevitable rise of ad-blocking and hosted content on social platforms, the ethics of opting out of a supposedly implicit contract (bad advertising in exchange for free content), and how this will bring about the slow death of the free web. However you might feel about ad-blockers, I’m pretty sure there’s consensus on one point: we hate online ads.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/ad-blocking-isnt-a-software-feature-its-a-cultural-movement-2015-10
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DATA BREACH ALERT!!
On Thursday, T-Mobile revealed that Experian, a third-party used for customer credit checks, had been breached!

On Thursday, T-Mobile revealed that Experian, a third-party used for customer credit checks, had been breached. As part of the breach, 15 million T-Mobile customers had their personal data stolen from the company. The theft affected customer data ranging back two years, from September 2013 through September 2015.
The stolen data included names, addresses and birth dates, as well as encrypted social security numbers and ID numbers (such as driver’s license or passport number).
Read more: http://www.neowin.net/news/15-million-t-mobile-customers-affected-by-data-breach
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REMEMBER!!
If you’re not paying for the product you are the product!

There is, alas, no such thing as a free lunch. What’s even more depressing is that there is no such thing as a free internet service. Most people nowadays probably understand that in relation to, say, social networking services, if the service is “free” then the users (or, more precisely, their personal data) are the product. But this also applies to stuff that you haven’t signed up for – websites that you browse, for example. The site may be free to view, but there’s often a hidden cost.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/27/ad-blocking-herald-end-of-free-internet-ios9-apple
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