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The side effect of at least a few of these apps is that it screws up shopping on the online versions of Sears and Walmart!

Ads pay the bills for a lot of sites (including this one). But they can also be intrusive and with some of the tracking abilities available out there, a bit creepy. To combat some of that and to speed up page loads Apple introduced a Content Blocker feature for mobile Safari that allows third-party developers to create extensions that are “a fast and efficient way to block cookies, images, resources, pop-ups, and other content.” Apparently people really hate advertisements on the internet because ad blockers have rocketed to the top of the paid app section of the App Store.
Read more: http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/25/ios9-ad-blockers-shopping/
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EU data protection legislation has made companies more careful in guarding against customer data theft, it’s critical they take a similarly vigilant approach when dealing with their own employees’ data!

The past year has seen a flurry of high-profile data security breaches in the news, with the exposure of customer details and credit card information frequently hitting the headlines.
While this has – quite rightly – made companies more careful in guarding against customer data theft, it’s critical they take a similarly vigilant approach when dealing with their own employees’ data.
Read more: http://www.itproportal.com/2015/09/20/eu-data-protection-legislation-is-your-employee-data-safe/
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AVG is a hugely popular anti-virus (AV) solution.

AVG is a hugely popular anti-virus (AV) solution. According to the company website it is used in protecting “over 200,000,000 active users”. A lot of those users may rely on the free version of the software, which has garnered many favourable reviews over recent years. But it must be tricky to make money providing a popular AV solution, with good performance, in some ways its cannibalising your own market.
Read more: http://hexus.net/tech/news/software/86579-avg-privacy-policy-update-allows-sell-browsing-history/
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Less than a day after the launch of iOS 9, Apple’s latest operating system, content blocking software is at the top of the app charts worldwide!

Less than a day after the launch of iOS 9, Apple’s latest operating system, content blocking software is at the top of the app charts worldwide.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/adblockers-shoot-up-ios-9-app-charts-on-day-one-2015-9
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The California Electronic Privacy Act — meant to safeguard e-mails, text messages and location data stored on smartphones and other devices — made it through the Assembly!

A bill touted by supporters as a victory over warrantless government access to private communications worked its way through the Legislature this week.
The California Electronic Privacy Act — meant to safeguard e-mails, text messages and location data stored on smartphones and other devices — made it through the Assembly and now returns to the state Senate for concurrence before heading to the governor for final approval, according to a press release from the ACLU of Northern California.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Electronic-privacy-act-clears-state-Assembly-6496928.php
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This is a whole other league of creepy, this is a whole other league of invasive!


The Government has announced it is spending $18.5 million on what has been hailed as Australia’s newest national security weapon – facial recognition technology.
The Capability – short for The National Facial Biometric Matching Capability – will allow law enforcement and security agencies to quickly scan through up to 100 million facial images held in databases around Australia.
Read more: http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2015-09-09/facial-recognition-privacy-advocates-raise-concern-over-creepy-system-government-says-will-enhance-n/149115
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For the first time, Apple will allow ads to be blocked by the iPhone and iPad versions of Saf
ari!

For the first time, Apple will allow adverts to be blocked by the iPhone and iPad versions of Safari.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34173732
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Uber tells Business Insider, “Share my ETA” links will be set to expire 48 hours after they are generated. Any publicly available pages still in existence have also been wiped.

Uber has fixed a gaping privacy hole which left ride details for some passengers visible in Google searches, with full address information available even months after the journey. The glitch was a side-effect of Uber’s “Share my ETA” feature, launched in 2013, which allows users to show others the progress of their trip.
Read more: http://www.slashgear.com/uber-fixes-eta-privacy-gap-that-left-full-trip-details-public-05402217/
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Once you know what hackers are after and how they are getting in, you can shift your defenses accordingly!

Cybercriminals are a motivated bunch that continually change up their approaches to evade traditional detection-based security. Rather than continuing the insane circle of identify and respond security, it’s time to flip your cyber script and focus on gaining situational awareness of the real risks your organization actually faces.
Read more: http://betanews.com/2015/09/05/why-hackers-are-after-your-private-information/
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Some critics complain that Microsoft hasn’t been more up front about all the ways Windows 10 collects user information!

Microsoft’s new Windows 10 system offers more personalization than before, but it also collects more data than people might be used to on PCs, from contacts and appointments to their physical location and even Wi-Fi passwords.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/tech-tips-windows-10-privacy-settings-worth-checking-33446586
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