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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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An investigation into the international surveillance trade.

Activist group Privacy International has launched an ambitious project to track the spread of commercial surveillance, spying and tracking technology and the often secretive firms selling into the booming sector.

“This research was conducted as part of our Big Brother Incorporated project, an investigation into the international surveillance trade that focuses on the sale of technologies by Western companies to repressive regimes intent on using them as tools of political control,” said Matt Rice of Privacy International in his introduction to the database. “What we found, and what we are publishing, is downright scary.”
Read more: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2066744/privacy-international-begins-tracking-surveillance-industry.html
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This won’t stop government snooping but it might make it more difficult for them to read your old tweets.

Internet services can toughen their security to mitigate government surveillance, but that won’t do much to lock down information that’s already in snoops’ hands.
Read more: http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/22/twitter-perfect-forward-secrecy/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget&ncid=rss_semi
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There are real world consequences for spying on your customers and employees.

Lawyers representing two top executives of IKEA France have confirmed that preliminary charges have been brought against them in a case alleging they spied illegally on employees and customers.
Read more: http://english.cntv.cn/program/newsupdate/20131121/101129.shtml
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