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Personal Information and Protection Electronics Document Act. Understanding it and keeping up to date with it

The Online Privacy Company. Don’t you wish there was a delete button for search results? You want to delete something from the Internet: maybe it’s an article, a picture, a blog post, an account, or a video. It’s not always easy, but it can be done. We’ll tell you how. We’ve spent years deleting people’s info from data broker websites with our product, DeleteMe, and we’ve learned a lot. Web Rule 1: Walk before you run. In this guide, we’ll call the website that’s actually hosting the content you want removed–the original source–the publisher. Let’s say that someone wrote a really unflattering blog post about you and now it’s showing up in Google’s search results whenever someone searches for your name. To remove something from Google’s search results, you have to remove it from the original source first. Web Rule 2: You’ll hit some red lights. Goodbye, data. Most of the things that people want removed are things they voluntarily posted at an earlier time.

Web Rule 3: Keep it up. 1. 2. 3. You have to make your case. 3 million bank accounts hacked in Iran. Update - Google kills Iranian blog with 3 million hacked bank accounts After finding a security vulnerability in Iran's banking system, Khosrow Zarefarid wrote a formal report and sent it to the CEOs of all the affected banks across the country. When the banks ignored his findings, he hacked 3 million bank accounts, belonging to at least 22 different banks, to prove his point. It does not appear as if Zarefarid stole money from the accounts; he merely dumped the account details of around 3 million individuals, including card numbers and PINs, on his blog: ircard.blogspot.ca. I found the link via his Facebook account, along with the question "Is your bank card between thease 3000000 cards? " At least three Iranian banks (Saderat, Eghtesad Novin, and Saman) have already sent text messages to their clients, warning them to change their debit card PINs, according to Kabir News.

It's worrying that the CBI statement did not mention anything about improving security. See also: Why The 'Third Party Doctrine' Undermines Online Privacy Protections. This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first. Always. | Privacy Inc. Nicholas Merrill is planning to revolutionize online privacy with a concept as simple as it is ingenious: a telecommunications provider designed from its inception to shield its customers from surveillance. Merrill, 39, who previously ran a New York-based Internet provider, told CNET that he's raising funds to launch a national "non-profit telecommunications provider dedicated to privacy, using ubiquitous encryption" that will sell mobile phone service and, for as little as $20 a month, Internet connectivity. The ISP would not merely employ every technological means at its disposal, including encryption and limited logging, to protect its customers.

It would also -- and in practice this is likely more important -- challenge government surveillance demands of dubious legality or constitutionality. A decade of revelations has underlined the intimate relationship between many telecommunications companies and Washington officialdom. Like the eavesdropping system that President George W. 10 Simple Tips for Boosting The Security Of Your Mac. At the moment, there are more than 100 million Mac OS X users around the world. The number has grown switfly during the past years we expect this growth to continue.

Until recently, Mac OS X malware was a somehow limited category and included trojans such as the Mac OS X version of DNSChanger and more recently, fake anti-virus/scareware attacks for Mac OS X which boomed in 2011. In September 2011, the first versions of the Mac OS X trojan Flashback have appeared, however, they didn’t really become widespread until March 2012.

According to data collected by Kaspersky Lab, almost 700,000 infected users have been counted at the beginning of April and the number could be higher. Although Mac OS X can be a very secure operating systems, there are certain steps which you can take to avoid becoming a victim to this growing number of attacks. Here’s our recommendation on 10 simple tips to boost the security of your Mac: We recommend you completely uninstall it from your machine. Facebook-Instagram deal raises new privacy worries | Privacy Inc. Facebook's planned acquisition of Instagram is already raising privacy concerns, despite chief executive Mark Zuckerberg's pledge this morning that he wouldn't simply "integrate everything" into the larger social-networking site. Twitter has been deluged with Instagram users turned insta-quitters, who griped: "I hate Facebook and the lack of privacy now I have to remove my pics before I can't.

" And: "You know what Instagram was missing? Ads and privacy invasions. All it took was 1 billion dollars to make that happen. " "Part of the concern is that it's Facebook," says Chris Conley, an attorney at the ACLU of Northern California. That mixed history includes Facebook's repeated changes to the default settings of user accounts to make more user data public over time -- a practice that has vexed advocacy groups, drawn charges of being overly confusing, and culminated in a settlement last fall with the Federal Trade Commission.

All photos shared through Instagram are public by default. As Some Companies Choose "Do Not Target" Over "Do Not Track," What Are User Attitudes? Do Not Track continues its surge of momentum in the past few months. As we document in The State of Do Not Track, a number of stakeholders are recognizing the importance of user control over whether or not an online company can track users and how much information, if any, the company can collect.

Noticeably absent from the conversation are hard numbers on users' attitudes towards online behavioral advertising, or "targeted advertising. " Advertisers and media companies routinely dismiss privacy concerns when it comes to online advertising. At the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in 2009, Disney CEO Robert Iger stated: "When you hear arguments about privacy, they tend to come from older people. " Referring to how his daughters use the Internet, he continued, "When I talk to them about online privacy, they don't know what I'm talking about. " Often, such statements are viewed as the norm in advertising circles. The results were reiterated in a December 2010 USA Today/Gallup poll (PDF).