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Is it possible?
The entire human race will be monitored in just a few years!

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has claimed that the ability for the whole human race to be monitored online is only a few years away, while railing against the National Security Authority (NSA).
Speaking to the South by Southwest conference via a tenuous Skype connection, Assange, who currently has asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, spoke of the continued battle to release Government information and described the increasing number of laws allowing online surveillance as ‘the penetration of human society’.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/julian-assange-sxsw-2014-3

There are alternatives to Google search!
Try “Duck Duck Go”- The Private search engine.
Gabriel Weinberg, the search engine’s founder, says it has tapped into a growing desire not to be tracked.

It takes a certain degree of bravery for one man to go up against Google in anything – but taking the technology giant on web search? Some might regard that as just plain foolish.
After all, this is an area where even the goliaths of the industry have struggled to gain traction. Microsoft’s Bing search engine has less than 6pc of the global search market. Yahoo, whose search engine is powered by Bing, has around the same amount. Google, with a 71 percent share has sucked all the oxygen out of the room.
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/digital-media/10684889
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Can Big Data and Privacy coexist?
The answer might surprise you!

In many ways “big data”and “encryption” are antithetical. The former involves harvesting, storing and analyzing information to reveal patterns that researchers, law enforcement and industry can use to their benefit. The goal of the latter is to obscure that data from prying eyes. That tension was at the core of a conference this week co-hosted by the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), in which more than a dozen experts from academia, politics and industry explored ways encryption and other privacy-oriented technologies might protect the information at involved in big data efforts.
Read more: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2014/03/06/how-to-reconcile-big-data-and-privacy/
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How much is your Privacy worth?

Free apps and services have a high price for some users. Take Julia Angwin, a senior reporter at ProPublica who writes in The New York Times that she spent $2,200 last year to make sure that she could still use the web while avoiding all of the free services offered by companies such as Google and Facebook that harvest her data and use them to sell more targeted ads.
What did she have to buy that cost so much money, you ask? Angwin says that among other things she bought “a $230 service that encrypted my data in the Internet cloud; a $35 privacy filter to shield my laptop screen from coffee-shop voyeurs; and a $420 subscription to a portable Internet service to bypass untrusted connections,” among other things.
Read more: http://bgr.com/2014/03/05/how-to-stay-private-online/
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If you have one of these personal robots, remember he is recording everything you say and do! Are you going to invite one into your house?

We’re a long way off from a future where every home comes with its own robot. But if that day ever comes, robots like NAO will have led the way.
NAO, a nearly two-foot tall humanoid robot, is made by Paris-based Aldebaran Robotics. At this point, it’s largely used in research labs, universities and schools as a teaching tool for students. But as we’ll see in this video report, Aldebaran sees the potential for NAO beyond the classroom.
Read more: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2103602/privacy-challenges-stand-between-you-and-your-own-private-robot.html
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Are your Private emails worth $100 per day?
Gmail users think they are!

That’s how much Google should pay Gmail users for each day it scanned their e-mail over five years, according to a lawsuit filed against the Web search giant. The plaintiffs, who claim the company mined messages to build user profiles and tailor advertising, seek damages that could total trillions of dollars. Google argues it shouldn’t have to face a class action that lumps together hundreds of millions of Internet users.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Gmail-users-seek-100-a-day-for-privacy-invasion-5274824.php
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Zuckerberg comes down on the side of transparency and personal Privacy!

Mark Zuckerberg believes the United States “really blew it” on surveillance programs that have drawn intense criticism as lacking respect for citizens’ privacy.
“I think that these things are always a balance, in terms of doing the right things and also being clear and telling people about what you’re doing,” the Facebook chief executive said in an interview broadcast Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that touched on a range of issues. “I think the government really blew it on this one. And I honestly think that they’re continuing to blow it in some ways and I hope that they become more transparent in that part of it.”
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57613581-93/zuckerberg-says-us-really-blew-it-on-surveillance-programs/
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Sands casino data breach!
Another reason not to leave your personal data in the hands of commercial entities.

Computer hackers stole the personal information of tens of thousands of Las Vegas Sands customers during a data breach earlier this month, the casino company said Friday.
The company said in a regulatory filing that information about some patrons at its Bethlehem, Pa., hotel-casino was compromised during the Feb. 10 attack. Spokesman Ron Reese said the number of customers affected was in the mid-five figure range, as far as the company could tell so far.
Read more: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Sands-Some-Customer-Data-Stolen-by-Hackers-248017191.html
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Will Indie Phone be the first really private smartphone?
Each user will have their own Private server!

In today’s free market, there are only two companies making money making mobile phones. According to analysts, Apple and Samsung swept up more than 100% of mobile phone earnings in the third quarter last year, subtracting losses from other vendors. That’s some funny math. It’s also revealing: While Steve Jobs‘ legacy has been labeled iconoclastic, his vision has also become the dominant new norm.
Indie Phone, a mobile phone with new hardware, an original operating system, and an individual server for each user, could provide an alternative. The goal, says Indie Phone creator Aral Balkan, is twofold: To make a beautiful user experience and empower users to own their data.
Read more: http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026474/can-this-alternative-smartphone-deliver-real-privacy-to-the-masses
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Schools should be Privacy zones!
Kids shouldn’t have to worry about receiving targeted ads based on an essay they wrote.

Kids today use the Internet to do everything from comment on lessons with other students to get homework from their teachers. But what is to stop companies from using students’ information to sell them candy and action figures?

On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Education addressed the issue by announcing the Privacy Technical Assistance Center (PTAC), a “one-stop” privacy resource for Internet companies and school administrators to “learn about data privacy, confidentiality, and security practices.”
Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/data-privacy-laws-lag-behind-tech-kids-learn-online-n39116

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