First marketers began listening to our online communications and then the government. Can’t a guy buy a gallon of milk in peace?
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Who’s Listening to You Online? [Cartoon]
Category: China, facebook, google, google plus, humor, huwai, Joy Of Tech, Nsa, Prism, Privacy, surveillance /
The Data Collection Fear: Is it Realistic?
While government data gathering and tracking is a whole different issue, the fear behind the online tracking for marketing is unfounded. Yes, companies have data about your online activities, your purchases, some of your interests. Responsible companies use that information to provide you with an enjoyable and relevant online experience.
What does PRISM mean for Social Media? Notes from our #SMTNews Tweet-chat
Storify transcript of #SMTNews tweet-chat on the impact of the recent revelations of the NSA's secret PRISM analytics program for social media.
How Facebook "Likes" Reveal Your Most Intimate Secrets
Did you know that your 'Likes' could expose intimate details about you as well as personality traits you might not want to share with anyone? A recent study shows that it is possible to predict a range of highly sensitive personal attributes simply by analyzing the ‘Likes’ you have clicked on Facebook.
Category: Analytics, Behavior, facebook, Marketing, Privacy, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, social networks, Yes /
Snowden Stole Secret NSA Documents With a Flash Drive
How did whistleblower Edward Snowden steal all those top secret documents from a secure National Security Agency facility in Hawaii? Simple: with a good old-fashioned flash drive
That's allegedly how Snowden, who was working at the facility as a contractor for Booz Allen Hamilton, smuggled the documents he then leaked to The Guardian and The Washington Post, according to officials questioned by The Los Angeles Times
The classified documents leaked last week revealed that the NSA has been collecting millions of phone records from Verizon; the existence of an international surveillance system called PRISM which apparently collects data from the likes of Google and Facebook; a secret Obama order to draw up overseas targets for cyber attacks; and Boundless Informant, a tool to datamine the world. Read more...
More about Privacy, Surveillance, Prism, Us World, and UsWill Facebook Hashtags Affect Your Privacy?
Twitter, Instagram, Google+ now Facebook. #Finally. But before you start hashtagging in your next Facebook post, what about your privacy? Here are a few questions that Facebook hashtags have brought to mind:
Government Spying Sends Users to Private Search Engine DuckDuckGo
Since it was revealed in the first week of June that the NSA monitors global email and phone activity in part by obtaining information from major Internet service providers including Google, traffic on the more privacy conscious search engine DuckDuckGo has risen by about half, the company said.
DuckDuckGo, founded in 2008 and first funded in 2011, differentiates itself from its behemoth competitor Google by eschewing user tracking and customized search results. It also says it delivers fewer spam results.
On June 1, the website had 1.6 million direct visits and 14 billion users of its search API. That number ticked up dramatically after the website was mentioned in mainstream media reports on how users could avoid the NSA’s wide-reaching digital dragnet of personal communications. This Monday, June 10, the website saw 2.2 million direct visits and 16.9 million calls to its API. Its traffic has continued to meet those numbers throughout the week.
The shift is one small rebuttal to the oft-cited paradox that U.S. users claim to want more online privacy but do not patronize privacy-conscious Web services over those, like Google, that employ user tracking and other potentially invasive practices.
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NSA Phone Tracking and the Impact of the Digital Age on Personal Privacy
If you have tuned into any of the shout shows or news across the cable network board in the past couple weeks, you will have found no shortage of debates taking place among political pundits emphatically emitting their views. Some are crying it is a gross invasion of privacy, while others are contending it is an effective counter-terrorism tactic.
Category: Governance, Government 2.0, Policy & Guidelines, Privacy, Public Relations, The NSA PRISM Scandal, Yes /
Who Are Data Brokers, and What Do They Know? [Infographic]
Data brokering has emerged as a powerful and controversial industry, but it remains one that most of us know very little about. An infographic from Privacy Choice endeavors to change that.
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NSA Snooping Matters, Even If You Have ‘Nothing to Hide’
“I have nothing to hide. Why should I care if the NSA is vacuuming up my phone records?”
The news that the NSA has been indiscriminately collecting the phone and Internet logs of Americans under sweeping Patriot Act orders has provoked outrage from civil libertarians — and even Patriot Act author Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI)
But there are also plenty of quieter voices wondering why law-abiding citizens should be concerned about bulk data collection if there’s even an off-chance it might help stop a terrorist attack
Polls aren’t necessarily great metrics of considered opinion in a case like this, but early surveys showed that a slight majority of Americans said they were basically OK with this sort of data dragnet. Presumably, many feel like the Manhattanite who told The New York Times: “Personally, I have nothing to hide, so it’s not really affecting me.” There’s even a Twitter account, @_nothingtohide, compiling tweets from Americans who cheerfully welcome our new metadata overlords Read more...
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