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Parents are creating a large digital footprint for their child from a young age, and the right PRIVACY settings are important if you want to stay in control!

Most parents (53%) use Facebook to share images of their children, followed by Instagram (14%) and Twitter (12%).
‘Despite 70% of parents claiming their main gadget for taking photos was a smartphone, fewer than half (49%) were aware that location data showing where photos were taken could be stored,’ said the pollsters.
‘Furthermore, parents are in the dark about who has the rights to images being posted online, as 39% believe they own sole rights to images posted on Facebook and 17% think the same for Instagram.
Read more at http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/latest/photo-news/warning-shot-fired-over-child-photo-privacy-52153
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The Internet is the place where nothing goes to die!
We agree, and are adding this caveat: Don’t post anything you wouldn’t want hanging in an art gallery.

The Internet is the place where nothing goes to die.
Those embarrassing photos of your high school dance you marked “private” on Facebook? The drunk Instagram posts? The NSFW snapchats? If you use social media, you’ve probably heard a warning akin to “don’t post anything you wouldn’t want your employer (or future employer) to see.”
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2015/05/25/a-reminder-that-your-instagram-photos-arent-really-yours-someone-else-can-sell-them-for-90000/
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We have an obligation to use technology for good and we can do that if we adopt the right policies and the right framework for making those policies!

My name is Libby Schaaf. I am the mayor of my hometown, Oakland, California. I just took office this January. I am very passionate about my city. I’m passionate about civil rights, civil liberties and technology. I’m passionate about all these things, and I really want to use technology responsibly, for good, and I can use everyone’s help in figuring out the way to do that.
Read more: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/how-one-mayor-struggles-with-balancing-privacy-and-surveillance/
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When those devices are aimed specifically at children, then for many this will step over the creepy line!

Google’s R&D team has looked into making internet-connected toys that control smart home appliances.
The firm has published a patent that describes devices that would turn their heads towards users and listen to what they were saying, before sending commands to remote computer servers.
The three-year old patent was spotted recently by the legal technology firm SmartUp.
It described the proposal as “one of Google’s creepiest patents yet”.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32843518
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While stating that they “completely agree that the global digital divide should be closed” the digital rights campaigners question “whether this is the right way to do it.”

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has joined criticism of Facebook’s Internet.org project, saying it runs “a real risk” of turning the few websites that Zuck & Co. select, “including, of course, Facebook itself”, into a “ghetto” for poor internet users – instead of being a stepping stone to the full WWW.
Read more: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/19/eff_says_internetorg_not_neutral_not_secure_not_the_internet/
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Now, it looks like anyone can spy on others in the vicinity with a new gadget that is cheap, relatively easy to build, and looks just like a normal cell phone charger!

The number of tools that nefarious hackers have at their disposal these days is positively frightening. Attacks seem to be growing more complex and more dangerous by the day, and we constantly see new stories emerge that cause us to rethink our own security practices.
Read more: http://bgr.com/2015/05/18/keylogger-for-pc-microsoft-keyboard-diy/
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Facebook is in a unique position and can easily connect the browsing habits of its users to their real identity, their interactions on social networks and sensitive data such as medical information, preferences religious, sexual and political …
Free content ad network could face EC court proceedings
Belgium’s privacy watchdog has pilloried Facebook for its tracking of users and non-users, saying it is in breach of EU law.
The Commission de Protection de la Vie Privée (CPVP) said it was staggered by the fashion in which Facebook tramples users’ rights and tracks them across the web whether they want it or not.  The Belgian data cops claimed:
Facebook violates European and Belgian legislation on privacy. It is in a unique position and can easily connect the browsing habits of its users to their real identity, their interactions on social networks and sensitive data such as medical information, preferences religious, sexual and political …
Read more: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/15/dont_trust_facebook_snap_on_protection_now_warns_belgian_data_privacy_watchdog/
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Passed with overwhelming approval, the bipartisan bill would prohibit the N.S.A. from mass-collecting phone metadata!

In a decision that is sure to make privacy advocates extremely happy, the U.S. House of Representatives just voted to put an end to the National Security Agency’s bulk phone data collection program, The New York Times reports.
Passed with overwhelming approval, the bipartisan bill would prohibit the N.S.A. from mass-collecting phone metadata, which contains information on phone calls made by Americans…
Read more: http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/house-votes-ends-nsa-phone-collection-program/
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Just because so many Internet users are happy to give away their personal information, doesn’t mean that they don’t want to feel secure when browsing the Web!

Given today’s climate when it comes to privacy and access to your personal information, you’d think that not many people would be happy to give away their personal information. However, according to a survey conducted by Ofcom, the communications regulator in the United Kingdom, the exact opposite is true, reports The Guardian.
Read more: http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/uk-internet-users-give-personal-information
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The concerns drones raise go beyond expectations of privacy in public places. It is about the right to go about your daily business free from spying by your own government!

FOR decades, local law enforcement has used aviation for specific and limited purposes, such as search and rescue, high-speed chases and traffic control. Helicopters require costly equipment and fuel and risk loss of life, so law enforcement has used them sparingly.
But drones are a game-changer for airborne surveillance. As these technologies rapidly evolve and their ability expands to peer into every corner of society from tens of thousands of feet in the air, drones give governments unprecedented capabilities to engage in mass surveillance. They are relatively cheap and can be deployed in automated fleets. Drones are certain to be used under less urgent circumstances than other aircraft.
Read more: http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/legislate-on-drone-use-balancing-privacy-and-safety/
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