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If business and government leaders don’t adopt better protocols now, Millennials will soon rise up and demand it!!

Another piece of research has been released showing that Millennials don’t trust the government or businesses when it comes to protecting their data online.
The survey, which was commissioned by Intercede and took in the opinions of 1000 US consumers and 1000 UK consumers aged from 16 to 35, found that a large number of respondents had “none” or just “a little” trust in terms of data protection when it came to particularly social media and online retail.
Read more: http://www.itproportal.com/2015/10/13/millennials-have-little-confidence-that-government-or-businesses-will-protect-their-data/
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When people are willing to pay to stop ads, it gives you an idea of how fed up they are!!

There were close to 200 million downloads of ad-blocking software by mid-2015, according to research firm PageFair, but only 1.6 percent of the blocking was done on mobile devices rather than computers.
That could be changing as mobile ad-blocking software becomes increasingly popular across the globe, particularly after the high-profile move by Apple to incorporate it directly into its latest iPhone and iPad operating system iOS9.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-mobile-ad-blockers-growing-popularity-threatens-huge-losses-2015-10
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Ads annoy and interrupt us. They track us, follow us around, and report back on our behavior.   Can you blame people for wanting to block them?

Lots of smart and thoughtful people have weighed in already on the inevitable rise of ad-blocking and hosted content on social platforms, the ethics of opting out of a supposedly implicit contract (bad advertising in exchange for free content), and how this will bring about the slow death of the free web. However you might feel about ad-blockers, I’m pretty sure there’s consensus on one point: we hate online ads.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/ad-blocking-isnt-a-software-feature-its-a-cultural-movement-2015-10
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DATA BREACH ALERT!!
On Thursday, T-Mobile revealed that Experian, a third-party used for customer credit checks, had been breached!

On Thursday, T-Mobile revealed that Experian, a third-party used for customer credit checks, had been breached. As part of the breach, 15 million T-Mobile customers had their personal data stolen from the company. The theft affected customer data ranging back two years, from September 2013 through September 2015.
The stolen data included names, addresses and birth dates, as well as encrypted social security numbers and ID numbers (such as driver’s license or passport number).
Read more: http://www.neowin.net/news/15-million-t-mobile-customers-affected-by-data-breach
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REMEMBER!!
If you’re not paying for the product you are the product!

There is, alas, no such thing as a free lunch. What’s even more depressing is that there is no such thing as a free internet service. Most people nowadays probably understand that in relation to, say, social networking services, if the service is “free” then the users (or, more precisely, their personal data) are the product. But this also applies to stuff that you haven’t signed up for – websites that you browse, for example. The site may be free to view, but there’s often a hidden cost.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/27/ad-blocking-herald-end-of-free-internet-ios9-apple
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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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