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Retailers tracking customers via Wi-Fi suggests that privacy really is dead
2013-11-25 13:53:04| InfoWorld: Top News
"Privacy is dead -- get over it," has been a mantra of private investigators for years. But continuing revelations about how many different ways personal privacy is still disappearing are still enough to unnerve people. It is not just about the trail everybody leaves from the websites they visit or from security cameras in public places. It is also about smart cars. It is about the cellular towers that serve their smartphones. And it is now also about their friendly brick-and-mortar retailer.
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Browser extension gets 'disposable' data capabilities for added privacy
2013-11-22 14:39:44| InfoWorld: Top News
A Boston-based company, Abine, is beefing its anti-tracking browser extension to let users shield their real credit card details, email addresses and phone numbers during Web transactions. The new features are being added to "DoNotTrackMe," an extension for Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Safari that blocks tracking technologies used by advertising and social networks and data collectors.
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Internet of Things Will Burn Privacy for a While, Cerf Warns
2013-11-21 23:50:13| TechNewsWorld
"Privacy may actually be an anomaly," Vinton Cerf, one of the fathers of the Internet, told participants in an FTC workshop on privacy and security in the Internet of Things. Privacy doesn't really exist in small towns, for instance. Further, consumers' social behavior is "quite damaging to privacy," Cerf said. "The technology we use today has far outraced our social intuition headlights."
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Facebook finally updates privacy policy, but little has changed
2013-11-18 14:40:36| InfoWorld: Top News
Facebook changed its privacy policies on Friday, but unlike previous overhauls, there's not much to rage about this time. No, companies aren't using your photos to sell products. Yes, if you like a brand, that information will show up in your friends' feeds, on your Timeline, and in Graph Search ("friends of my friends who like Anthropologie").
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EU privacy watchdog opposes EC net neutrality proposal
2013-11-15 11:39:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) The European Commission's net neutrality proposal goes against EU legislation on data protection and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, according to the European Data Protection Supervisor, the EU's privacy watchdog. In an opinion on the EC's proposal, the EDPS welcomed the inclusion of the principle of net neutrality, but said the measure "is devoid of substance because of the almost unlimited right of providers to manage internet traffic". According to the privacy regulator, the proposal promotes traffic management measures that allow the monitoring of users' internet communications, including emails sent or received, websites visited and files downloaded in order to filter, slow down or restrict access to illegal services or content. Such large-scale monitoring of communications goes against existing legislation on personal data protection and human rights. If the EC plans to continue with the proposal it must ensure that any any permitted monitoring or restriction of internet activity is done "solely to achieve a targeted, specific and legitimate aim", the EDPS said. The EDPS called on the Commission to outline more precise reasons for which traffic management measures can be applied. Any interference with user rights must be clearly communicated to users, allowing them to switch to those providers that apply less privacy-invasive traffic management techniques in their services. Furthermore, the EDPS wants national privacy regulators to have a greater role in supervising traffic management practices to ensure end-user rights are respected.
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