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Surveillance seriously erodes what it means
to be a Free Individual.
A must read article!

Big Brother may be watching you. But Glenn Greenwald is watching Big Brother.
That’s not a bad take on how the 46-year-old constitutional-law attorney turned crusading journalist turned thorn in the side of the NSA might describe his mission.
At least in part. Greenwald is doing more than just watching.
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57613838-38/saving-the-net-from-the-surveillance-state-glenn-greenwald-speaks-up-q-a/
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How do you feel about being tracked in stores while you shop?
Would it change your shopping habits?

Only Santa, maybe, knows if you’ve been naughty or nice. But management at some 1,000 retailers this holiday season knows where you’ve standing, how long you’ve had to wait in the checkout line, and which sweater or necktie or shovel you admired most while shopping. New technologies for tracking shoppers in store, in real time, make this possible.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/stores-snooping-holiday-shoppers/t/story?id=21153815&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsnow.co.uk%2FA%2F684311815%3F-29165%3A16765
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We have transitioned into a world where law enforcement is hacking into people’s computers, and we have never had public debate,” –Christopher Soghoian

The FBI has an elite hacker team that creates customized malware to identify or monitor high-value suspects who are adept at covering their tracks online, according to a published report.
The growing sophistication of the spyware—which can report users’ geographic locations and remotely activate a computer’s camera without triggering the light that lets users know it’s recording—is pushing the boundaries of constitutional limits on searches and seizures, The Washington Post reported in an article published Friday.
Read more: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/fbi-surveillance-malware-in-bomb-threat-case-tests-constitional-limits/
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“Those that would sacrifice Freedom for Security deserve neither.”- Benjamin Franklin

Staying private shouldn’t be an issue
Anonymity on the web is in decline, thanks to a multi-pronged attack from some of the largest internet companies around. Some of the largest social networks, blogs and news sites now prohibit the use of anything but your real, full name, and as a result, we’re in danger of losing the very thing that made the internet revolutionary in the first place.
Read more: http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/becoming-anonymous-why-privacy-on-the-web-is-no-bad-thing-1203484
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“There are no boundaries anymore” says Kate Moss.

“Now with Instagram and everything, everyone’s so on their phones that even when I’m in a restaurant someone will come up and ask to get a picture with me. I’m like, ‘No’,” the model tells the 60th anniversary issue of Playboy. “There are no boundaries anymore.”
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/10489208/Kate-Moss-says-social-media-allows-people-to-invade-her-privacy.html
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A great app that catches people if they look at your private messages on your phone!

Android: If you suspect your roommate or anyone else has been reading your private messages on your phone, then PeeperPeeper can catch them red-handed. The app creates fake shortcuts for popular messaging apps and takes a photo when someone opens them.
Read more: http://lifehacker.com/peeperpeerer-catches-who-has-been-snooping-on-your-priv-1473105524
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Don’t be a “Glasshole”!
Diner bans patrons from wearing Google Glass to protect the Privacy of others.

If you follow technology gossip, you probably saw the fuss kicked up last week by a Seattle resident called Nick Starr, who went into a local 24-hour diner wearing Google Glasses.

Those, in case you missed them, are the creepy streaming-video spectacles from Google that seem to have little practical purpose other than to intrude unrelentingly into the privacy of everyone who comes within eyeshot.
Read more: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/12/02/privacy-is-alive-seattle-eatery-tells-google-glass-user-where-to-stick-his-spectacles/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nakedsecurity+%28Naked+Security+-+Sophos%29
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Human rights should prevail irrespective of the medium!

The U.N. General Assembly’s human rights committee on Tuesday unanimously adopted a resolution sponsored by Brazil and Germany to protect the right to privacy against unlawful surveillance, following months of reports about U.S. eavesdropping abroad.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/t/story/advances-internet-privacy-rights-21017539?ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsnow.co.uk%2FA%2F681786905%3F-29165%3A16765
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The NSA is collecting massive amounts of sensitive information about virtually everyone!
A new report from the Huffington Post shows Keith Alexander’s NSA taking a page from J. Edgar Hoover

According to a report in the Huffington Post — gleaned from a document provided by the whistleblower Edward Snowden — the National Security Agency (NSA) has gathered records of online sexual activity and visits to pornographic websites in order to discredit Muslims who the agency believes are radicalizing others through their provocative speeches.
Read more: http://www.salon.com/2013/11/27/report_nsa_spied_on_online_sexual_habits_of_muslims_to_discredit_radicalizers/
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Putting your information on the Obamacare website is a security risk.
You could be compromising your personal data!

We’ve been hearing a lot about technical problems with the Federal government’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) Web site. But slow downloads and 404 errors aren’t the worst of what could plague the Obamacare site. According to white-hat hacker David Kennedy, the site can be easily hacked, allowing criminals to compromise computers and steal people’s private information.
Read more: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2066036/poor-security-on-obamacare-site-could-sacrifice-private-info.html
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