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Zuckerberg says it seems like it will take a long time for reform to occur!

A week before a self-imposed deadline for a review of National Security Agency programs, President Barack Obama sought Friday to assure leading Internet and tech executives that his administration is committed to protecting people’s privacy.
CEOs from Facebook, Google, Netflix and others spent more than two hours with Obama in the Oval Office discussing their concerns about NSA spying programs, which have drawn outrage from tech companies whose data have been scooped up by the government. Joining Obama and the CEOs were Obama’s commerce secretary, homeland security adviser and counselor John Podesta, whom Obama has tasked with leading a review of privacy and “big data.”
Read more: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/obama-meets-facebook-google-netflix-dropbox-privacy/
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Microsoft says they won’t read your Private emails sent through their Hotmail service, but they can and they will!  Read this disturbing article below.

Technology companies have spent months denying they know anything about broad government spying on people who use their Internet services.  But a legal case filed this week against a former Microsoft employee shows the power these companies themselves have to snoop on their customers whenever they want to.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/21/technology/microsofts-software-leak-case-raises-privacy-issues.html?_r=0
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There have always been bad bosses. Bad bosses with excessive amounts of your Personal Data would be even worse!
Shouldn’t employers and employees treat each other with mutual respect?

About 12 years ago, I worked in a large office in Camden Town. It wasn’t a particularly easy time in my life, and, for various reasons, I found myself spending much of the working day firing off angry personal emails and scouring the web – until one day when I arrived at work to discover that my internet access had been suspended.
Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/technology-gadgets/is-your-boss-spying-on-you-your-employer-could-be-using-a-host-of-new-technologies-to-snoop-on-you-like-never-before-30109772.html
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Cybercriminals will stop at nothing to steal your Personal Data!

Cybercriminals are exploiting the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines plane by luring users to websites purporting to offer the latest news in order to steal their personal information, an Internet security firm warned Tuesday.
Trend Micro urged Internet users to exercise caution when clicking on links shared on social media for news of flight MH370, which mysteriously vanished from the radar in the early hours of March 8 while on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.  There is no trace of the aircraft or the 239 people on board…
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/18/cybercriminals-use-fake-malaysia-flight-mh370-websites-to-steal-personal-data/
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A useful guide to managing your Facebook Privacy settings.
A few minutes spent here can lead to a happier (online) life!

The first thing you have to realize about Facebook: Nothing you put there is truly private. Yes, you can control how users see or don’t see your profile. But every time you like a product or even look at a page, the company itself is taking note. This doesn’t mean that some day Facebook will malevolently release your every click to the world. But it does mean that Facebook is not your private diary, and what you do on the website gets collected and cataloged. That’s worth keeping in mind whenever you use the service.
Read more: http://time.com/25448/the-comprehensive-guide-to-facebook-privacy-settings/
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A “must read” article about why people should care more about government Internet surveillance.
The lack of public alarm at government internet surveillance is frightening, but perhaps it’s because the problem is difficult to convey in everyday terms

As someone who is supposed to know about these things, I’m sometimes asked to give talks about computing to non-technical audiences. The one thing I have learned from doing this is that if you want people to understand technological ideas then you have to speak to them in terms that resonate with their experience of everyday things.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/16/apathy-gchq-snooping-internet-surveillance
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Europe leads the way towards giving people the right to control their Personal Data.

If you’re worried about Internet companies using-and-abusing your data, you might want to consider moving to Europe, where privacy legislation is much further along than in the United States.
On Wednesday the European Parliament voted to approve legislation that would give people greater control over their personal information. Europe’s privacy measure is a work in progress. It cannot become law until it has the approval of national governments, including those of Germany and Britain, which have been reluctant to take up the rules because they fear its impact on businesses. But the Parliament’s vote is still important because it sets a high standard against which other proposals can be judged.
Read more: http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/13/imagine-if-companies-had-to-ask-before-using-your-data/
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Controlling your Personal Data takes center stage at the iconic South by Southwest festival!

Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden’s surveillance revelations took center stage at this year’s South By Southwest Interactive, a five-day tech-focused festival best known for helping Twitter and Foursquare burst into the mainstream. Snowden didn’t have any new bombs to drop, but spoke to the South By audience because the festival foregoes major product launches in favor of taking the temperature of tech. This year, the industry is boiling.
The developers, startups, marketers, CEOs, and media types who attend SXSW share the same suspicions about surveillance and concerns about online privacy that average folks feel, but unlike you and I, creators of apps and services have the power to ease those fears.
Read more: http://www.techhive.com/article/2107480/surveillance-snowden-dominated-discussions-at-a-more-serious-south-by-southwest.html
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On the 25th anniversary of the Internet, its creator,
Sir Tim Berners Lee says we need a “Privacy Magna Carta” to protect us from government surveillance!

Creator of the World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee has called for a ‘privacy Magna Carta’ to help control government surveillance when browsing online.
He explained to BBC News that the internet has reached a crossroads where either government surveillance can grow, or a system of values is set up to control and regulate it.
Read more: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tech/news/a557049/web-creator-tim-berners-lee-calls-for-privacy-magna-carta-protection.html#ixzz2vlhQDm4W
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Do you share his enthusiasm for giving away your Privacy?

“If you had told me 15 years ago or so, when SXSW started, that I would give up access to my email and such to a third party, I would have said that’s crazy,” Scoble told the panel before adding that he’s now “all in” and “will give away my privacy for utility.”
Scoble said that he’s particularly excited about all of the sensors that are now being built into our gadgets that can keep track of our fitness activities, our location and the temperature and humidity in our homes.
Read more: http://bgr.com/2014/03/10/robert-scoble-sxsw-panel/
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