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Prime Minister Manuel Valls unveiled Thursday a bill that would make it easier for French intelligence services to deter potential terror threats, allowing agents to snoop through emails and intercept phone calls involving suspected terrorists.The security measures have come under fierce attack by rights groups who say they would jeopardise citizens’ rights to privacy.

Read more: http://www.france24.com/en/20150319-france-counter-terrorism-bill-surveillance/
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If you use Safari on your Mac for your private browsing needs, you might want to stop!

If you use Safari on your Mac for your private browsing needs, you might want to stop. MacIssues points out that all those URLs you visit in private mode are still saved in a database file that anyone with your computer can look at.
Read more: http://www.lifehacker.co.uk/2015/03/18/safaris-private-browsing-mode-saves-urls-easily-accessible-file
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Providing people with enough information to understand how their details will be used is a basic principle of data protection!

A survey by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) shows that 85% of UK consumers are concerned about how their personal details are passed on or sold to other organisations.
The survey reports that 77% of UK consumers are concerned about organisations not keeping their personal details secure.
Read more: http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240242509/Most-UK-consumers-worried-about-how-personal-data-is-shared
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A majority of those surveyed don’t know about online shields chat to could help boost privacy or believe it would be too difficult to avoid the government’s espionage!
More than half of Americans are worried about the U.S. government’s digital spies prying into their emails, texts, search requests and other online information, but few are trying to thwart the surveillance.
That’s according to a new survey from Pew Research Center, released Monday. A main reason for the inertia? Pew researchers found that a majority of those surveyed don’t know about online shields that could help boost privacy or believe it would be too difficult to avoid the government’s espionage.
Read more: http://www.seattletimes.com/business/dont-want-nsa-to-spy-on-your-email-5-things-you-can-do/
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The reality is that, far from being careless about their privacy, teenagers manage it carefully.  They just aren’t so obvious about it!

Young people are reluctant to share intimate details of their lives with strangers online and are going to greater lengths to protect their privacy than ever before, according to research conducted by the Market Research Society (MRS).
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/young-people-going-to-increasing-lengths-to-protect-online-privacy-10108955.html
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Would you be OK with your kid playing with such a toy?

It used to be that back in the day, the toys we played with were pretty static in the sense that they rarely talked to us, but this is 2015 and with smartphones recognizing our fingerprints and gadgets like the Kinect sensing our movements, it was only inevitable that our toys get just as hi-tech.
Read more: http://www.ubergizmo.com/2015/03/mattels-new-hello-barbie-doll-raises-privacy-concerns/
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“Internet voting is a serious threat to national security. Neither the U.S. nor any other democratic country should open the door to Internet voting—not now, and not in the foreseeable future—until such distant time as all of the fundamental security problems are satisfactorily resolved.”

Contrary to popular belief, the fundamental security risks and privacy problems of Internet voting are too great to allow it to be used for public elections, and those problems will not be resolved any time soon, according to David Jefferson, who has studied the issue for more than 15 years.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-03-privacy-issues-great-ballot-internet.html
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A majority of us are not O.K. with being spied on, but we also aren’t willing to pay to prevent it!

In this month’s poll, Americans reckon with a complicated matter: our privacy versus our ever expanding, intrusive, and pervasive new technologies. (How pervasive? Well, 87 percent of us say people are “addicted” to their smartphones.) Despite the trickiness of the issue, to us it’s crystal clear: a majority of us are not O.K. with being spied on, but we also aren’t willing to pay to prevent that. Specifically: (a) Most Americans (53 percent) say that these new technologies are worth the loss of privacy. Yet (b) most of us hate the idea of anyone monitoring our own Web-surfing habits. Still, given the opportunity to secure our privacy with even a small monthly fee, we’re (c) just not interested.
Read more: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/03/privacy-technology-60-minutes-poll
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The good news with this particular drone is you’ll have to fly it indoors since it’s so small and light that a good gust of wind could blow it down!

Privacy seems like such a quaint 20th Century concept, doesn’t it? Unbox Therapy has posted a video of the CX-10 Mini Drone, which is described as the world’s smallest drone and is a definite harbinger of things to come. In other words, it looks like privacy is finally toast.
Read more: http://bgr.com/2015/03/05/smallest-drone-in-the-world/
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Careful reading of the endnotes shows some national ministers are still at odds with the notion of privacy!

Activists have leaked the latest draft of Europe’s planned data protection law – which is supposed to safeguard Europeans’ personal information when in the hands of businesses and governments.
The proposed rules have been agreed by the European Parliament. Now Euro nations’ government ministers, who sit on the Council of the European Union, are tearing the text apart, and rewriting large chunks of it.
Read more: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/04/data_protection_what_data_protection_proposed_new_law_is_as_good_as_useless_say_digtal_rights_orgs
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