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These distros help ensure you don’t leave a digital footprint as you go about navigating the web!

Linux distributions can be separated into various categories based on use case and the intended target group. Server, education, games and multimedia are some of the most popular categories of Linux distros.
For security conscious users, however, there’s a growing niche of distros aimed at protecting your privacy. These distros help ensure you don’t leave a digital footprint as you go about navigating the web.
Read more: http://www.techradar.com/news/software/security-software/10-of-the-best-linux-distros-for-privacy-fiends-and-security-buffs-1292902
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Insider sources are claiming that the search giant is just about ready to give users more fine-grained control over what an app can and cannot access, strengthening the platform’s privacy controls.

Google I/O 2015 is shaping up to be one interesting conference, at least based on rumors and “accidental” leaks. We already have a redacted mention of Android M, a new hands-free “Voice Access” experience, and what may be a new wearable. Now Google is rumored to give Android users a new gift too, probably in the next Android version. Insider sources are claiming that the search giant is just about ready to give users more fine-grained control over what an app can and cannot access, strengthening the platform’s privacy controls.
Read more: http://www.slashgear.com/google-tipped-to-give-android-users-finer-privacy-controls-08382617/
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Here’s a simple fact about life as we live it now: the objects we carry let us know more about the world than ever, faster than ever. But they also let the world know more about us.

Here’s a simple fact about life as we live it now: the objects we carry let us know more about the world than ever, faster than ever. But they also let the world know more about us. Knowledge has become transparent. We look out the window of the internet even as the internet looks back in.
Partly for this reason, writers like Jeremy Rifkin have been saying that information privacy is a worn-out idea. On this view, the “internet of things” exposes the value of privacy for what it is: an idiosyncrasy of the industrial age. So no wonder, the thought goes, we are willing to trade it away – not only for security, but for the increased freedom that comes with convenience.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/07/surveillance-privacy-philosophy-data-internet-things
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Personal details, including cardholders’ names, card numbers and three-digit CVV security codes were all stolen!

Attack at Las Vegas resort exposes names, credit card numbers and CVV codes.
Las Vegas’s Hard Rock Hotel has lost guests’ credit and debit card details to hackers in an attack spanning seven months.
The data breach, which ran from 3 September 2014 to 3 April 2015, affected most of the resort’s retail and service locations, including shops, restaurants and cafés on the property.
Read more: http://www.itpro.co.uk/hacking/24543/hard-rock-hotel-loses-customer-data-in-seven-month-hack
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Whether you’re a political activist or simply someone who hates the idea of third-parties snooping around, there are plenty of tools available to keep prying eyes off of your traffic!

Now more than ever, your online privacy is under attack. Your ISP, advertisers, and governments around the world are increasingly interested in knowing exactly what you’re up to when you browse the web. Whether you’re a political activist or simply someone who hates the idea of third-parties snooping around, there are plenty of tools available to keep prying eyes off of your traffic.
Read more: http://www.extremetech.com/internet/180485-the-ultimate-guide-to-staying-anonymous-and-protecting-your-privacy-online
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Could Google be gaining anything from its own light-handed regulation of its app store?

The Google Play store is a veritable frontier for apps of varying degrees of quality, while Apple tends to rule its App Store with an iron fist, only allowing thoroughly vetted apps to make an appearance. Only apps that are visibly malicious are barred entry to the Google Play store, leaving room for apps that aren’t completely honest with their intentions. Perhaps it’s time that Google follow Apple’s lead and tighten up on the reins a bit, especially considering that a security team found thousands of free Android apps that are sharing user data by connecting with advertising and tracking sites–all unbeknownst to users.
Read more: http://www.slashgear.com/free-android-apps-found-tracking-personal-data-04381876/
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We are being the architects of our own grave-digging by happily giving away our personal content on social networks such as Facebook and its illegitimate stepchild Instagram!

We’re still waiting for something to be done about an international bill of digital rights to protect civil rights in the modern age, raised in an open letter signed in 2013, says Monty Munford
The late Günter Grass was one of more than 500 writers from 81 nations who called for a global digital rights bill after the June 2013 revelations from Edward Snowden showed the extent to which we are spied on.
This concern from those who protect us with their pens because of their skills and craft in communicating the excesses of our so-called rulers was, weirdly, backed up by the Liberal Democrats this week.
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/technology-topics/11577390/Digital-Rights-survey-highlights-social-media-and-privacy-paradox.html

“Today, data security is not just about protecting our identities and our bank accounts, it is about protecting our privacy.” Sen. Leahy

A proposed law would beef up your rights when your data is leaked or stolen.
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Legislation that would establish new nationwide privacy protections for American consumers was introduced by a group of high-profile Democratic senators on Thursday, including Pat Leahy (Vermont) and Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts). The Consumer Privacy Protection Act would establish federal standards for notification of consumers when their data is lost or stolen, greatly expand the definition of private information beyond financial data, and allow existing state privacy laws to remain in force. Geolocation data and images would be covered by its data leak disclosure rules, for example.
Read more: http://time.com/money/3843230/consumer-privacy-protection-act-bill-identity-credit/
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Without proper safeguards, all of the data that different devices and sites have collected about you can be combined, then exploited by marketers or stolen by hackers!

Last spring, as 41,000 runners made their way through the streets of Dublin in the city’s Women’s Mini Marathon, an unassuming redheaded man by the name of Candid Wueest stood on the sidelines with a scanner. He had built it in a couple of hours with $75 worth of parts, and he was using it to surreptitiously pick up data from activity trackers worn on the runners’ wrists. During the race, Wueest managed to collect personal info from 563 racers, including their names, addresses, and passwords, as well as the unique IDs of the devices they were carrying.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2015/04/30/in-privacy-your-own-home/
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RadioShack is seeking to sell 8.5 million customer email addresses and 65 million complete customer name and address files, along with what it calls “transaction data.”

A Delaware bankruptcy judge said Tuesday that he’s willing to approve bid procedures for the sale of RadioShack’s intellectual property, including data on millions of customers. But he warned there’s no guarantee he will approve the sale itself.
RadioShack, which won court approval last month to sell more than 1,740 of its stores to hedge fund Standard General LP, is now seeking to auction off its intellectual property assets.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/radioshack-agrees-mediation-sale-customer-data-30645163
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