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Any information about you and your friends can be collected and sold onto advertisers. There is simply no way to know where it ends up!!

You might think that talking about Facebook and privacy in the same breath is a little odd. The two just don’t go hand in hand, surely? Trying to use Facebook whilst maintaining your privacy is an exercise in futility, right? Well, yes, it’s certainly true that hitting a social network is not the thing to do if you want to fly under the radar, but many people do not realize just how easy it is to unwittingly hand over reams of personal information to companies and persons unknown.
Read more: http://betanews.com/2015/12/19/stop-doing-quizzes-on-facebook-if-you-place-any-value-on-your-privacy/
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An increase in public use of drones has been accompanied by, in many cases, a lack of awareness about airspace and privacy laws!
Drones can be bought off the shelf now but many buyers do not understand airspace and privacy laws surrounding them.
Drone related calls to the police in England have risen by more than 2,000% in the last three years, Sky News has learned.
Freedom of Information figures show in 2013 officers recorded 19 calls compared to at least 461 in 2015 and in the last year the number rose by over 160%.
Read more: http://news.sky.com/story/1607283/calls-to-police-over-drones-up-by-2000-percent

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A compact list of privacy information that you can act upon immediately!

Preserving your Privacy in Windows 10 is a free ebook for computer users who already have upgraded a system to Microsoft’s new operating system Windows 10, or plan to do so in the future.
Read more: http://www.ghacks.net/2015/12/15/free-ebook-preserving-your-privacy-in-windows-10/
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While Germans and Swedes like it far less!!

Every year, the UK’s telecom watchdog Ofcom releases a report on the state of the international comms market. This year’s report — which includes data from countries including the US, UK, France, Germany, and Japan — offers a number of interesting (if familiar) insights, including the decline of fixed phone lines around the world, the relative expense of mobile data in the US, and varying morning smartphone routines around the world.
Read more: http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/10/9884506/ofcom-report-telecoms-data
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It’s Mozilla’s aim to “build an Internet that respects users, puts them in control, and creates and maintains trust!

Mozilla just added one more iOS 9 ad blocker to the party. Focus by Firefox is a free content blocker for Safari on Apple’s mobile OS. A company blog post announced the new tool on Monday, saying it will make the mobile browsing experience more fluid by blocking trackers such as those used for ads, analytics and social media.
Read more: http://www.techspot.com/news/63070-mozilla-has-brand-new-ad-blocker-ready-iphone.html
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Adele fans buying tickets for the singer’s next tour have claimed to have seen credit card details and addresses for other users when making their purchases!

Tickets for Adele’s tour are flying off the virtual shelves, but can purchase platforms handle the strain?
Apparently not – Adele fans buying tickets for the singer’s next tour were shown details of customers other than themselves, the BBC reports.
Read more at http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/adele-tickets-tour-2015-2016-buy-hack-leak-cheap
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The app has been singled out as an example of how easily people give data away!

An app that shows your most-used words on Facebook might sound like fun, but the third-party software has been described as a ‘privacy nightmare’.
Some 17.8 million people have used Vonvon’s ‘What are your most used words on Facebook’ app in recent weeks.
But in doing so, they have given the company access to private details such as their age, friend list, education and hometown
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3333324/Facebook-s-Used-Words-app-privacy-nightmare-Tool-used-highlight-easy-users-away-personal-details.html

There’s an adware out there which uses features for the visually impaired to install malicious apps on an Android-powered device!

There’s an adware out there which uses features for the visually impaired to install malicious apps on an Android-powered device. The worst part is that it doesn’t use a vulnerability in the system, but instead abuses a service’s legitimate features.
Read more: http://www.itproportal.com/2015/11/23/adware-uses-features-for-the-impaired-to-install-apps/
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Is Yahoo locking you out of your email account for using an ad blocker?

Yahoo is angering the dwindling number of people who still use its email service with a test run of a feature that locks out anyone who has an ad blocker installed.
Several Yahoo users complained that they encountered an error message when trying to open their mail account …Read more
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“South Park” jumped into the ad blocking and native advertising debate during the latest episode on Wednesday night, dubbed “Sponsored Content.”

“South Park” jumped into the ad blocking and native advertising debate during the latest episode on Wednesday night, dubbed “Sponsored Content.
The episode saw PC Principal upset with the school newspaper for using a derogatory word about disabled people on its front page splash. He demands to know who the editor is — and it turns out one the show’s disabled characters, Jimmy, has taken on the new role of newsman.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/south-park-sponsored-content-ad-blocking-episode-2015-11
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