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This is a whole other league of creepy, this is a whole other league of invasive!


The Government has announced it is spending $18.5 million on what has been hailed as Australia’s newest national security weapon – facial recognition technology.
The Capability – short for The National Facial Biometric Matching Capability – will allow law enforcement and security agencies to quickly scan through up to 100 million facial images held in databases around Australia.
Read more: http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2015-09-09/facial-recognition-privacy-advocates-raise-concern-over-creepy-system-government-says-will-enhance-n/149115
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For the first time, Apple will allow ads to be blocked by the iPhone and iPad versions of Saf
ari!

For the first time, Apple will allow adverts to be blocked by the iPhone and iPad versions of Safari.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34173732
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Uber tells Business Insider, “Share my ETA” links will be set to expire 48 hours after they are generated. Any publicly available pages still in existence have also been wiped.

Uber has fixed a gaping privacy hole which left ride details for some passengers visible in Google searches, with full address information available even months after the journey. The glitch was a side-effect of Uber’s “Share my ETA” feature, launched in 2013, which allows users to show others the progress of their trip.
Read more: http://www.slashgear.com/uber-fixes-eta-privacy-gap-that-left-full-trip-details-public-05402217/
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Once you know what hackers are after and how they are getting in, you can shift your defenses accordingly!

Cybercriminals are a motivated bunch that continually change up their approaches to evade traditional detection-based security. Rather than continuing the insane circle of identify and respond security, it’s time to flip your cyber script and focus on gaining situational awareness of the real risks your organization actually faces.
Read more: http://betanews.com/2015/09/05/why-hackers-are-after-your-private-information/
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Some critics complain that Microsoft hasn’t been more up front about all the ways Windows 10 collects user information!

Microsoft’s new Windows 10 system offers more personalization than before, but it also collects more data than people might be used to on PCs, from contacts and appointments to their physical location and even Wi-Fi passwords.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/tech-tips-windows-10-privacy-settings-worth-checking-33446586
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Everyone should ask themselves two simple questions when using their web browser or search engine: where is the information being stored and am I happy with this practice?

Internet browsers are like sports teams. Every IT department and individual has an opinion on which one is the best, and personal preferences often comes down to long standing allegiances.
In the browser’s case, this is due to personal preference or ease of IT administration. Search privacy is not always top of the agenda, but should it be?
Read more: http://betanews.com/2015/08/27/browsers-and-privacy-pay-attention-to-what-you-search-for/
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The combination of seeming to add a dramatic and invasive new set of permissions to their apps, in a week when privacy concerns and hacks are already the top headline, set off an angry internet firestorm!

Spotify has basically run away with the music market over the last couple of years, boasting over 75 million active users. But the popular streaming service this week ticked off a bunch of those customers this week when it updated its privacy policy and user terms and conditions. And their timing couldn’t have been worse…
Read more: http://consumerist.com/2015/08/21/what-does-spotifys-new-privacy-policy-actually-say-and-should-i-be-worried/
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The astonishing relationship between the National Security Agency and the telecoms company goes far beyond any sort of arrangement or co-operation that came from other firms.

The NSA has been helped by AT&T for decades in spying on huge quantities of internet traffic new-disclosed documents reveal.
The astonishing relationship between the National Security Agency and the telecoms company goes far beyond any sort of arrangement or co-operation that came from other firms.
Read more: http://www.itproportal.com/2015/08/17/snowden-reveals-nsa-used-att-spy-internet-traffic/
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Mozilla reckons that it’s ultimately better to keep you off sites’ radars by default.

Numerous browsers have a private mode to prevent local users from learning too much about your web habits, but what about preventing the sites themselves from tracking what you’re doing? Mozilla thinks it can help. It just released a pre-beta version of Firefox whose updated, experimental Private Browsing mode blocks web elements that could track your behavior, such as analytic tools and social network services. While the measure could break some sites, Mozilla reckons that it’s ultimately better to keep you off sites’ radars by default.
Read more: http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/15/firefox-private-browsing-experiment/
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The modern internet economy in many ways evolved out of a casual disregard for secrecy and privacy!

In the age of surveillance, it is easy to forget that governments weathered robust privacy protections for centuries. But secrecy is central to the vitality of democracy.
Privacy as a legal construct is relatively recent. Until Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis penned their famous 1890 essay “The Right to Privacy”, private information was protected from disclosure and surveillance by another name: the secrecy of correspondence. Perhaps ironically, the right to secrecy has long been considered sacrosanct – both in domestic and international communications – a fundamental precondition for the honest and free flow of ideas and information and the development of a mature international political system. The right to have secrets, despite centuries of legal lineage and a firm grounding in democratic theory…
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/12/where-did-the-principle-of-secrecy-in-correspondence-go
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