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Nowadays, information on web surfing habits allows service providers to tailor products to customers needs, placing for example ads which are relevant for people doing frequent searches for the best flight deals. sensitive information may relate to people's health condition or sexual or political orientation. Location data or online identifiers, such as cookies, are also widely considered as personal data. Meanwhile, EU citizens are becoming increasingly aware of the possibilities for misusing their personal information. According to a recent Eurobarometer poll , 70% of those surveyed were concerned that personal data is used by companies for purposes other than for what it was collected for, while 64% feel that information on how their data is processed is unsatisfactory.
US lobbying waters down EU data protection reform | EurActiv
In a game of chicken, which is the better strategy: Writing a lengthy and detailed "persistence policy" guaranteeing that you'll persist in your course and will not, under any circumstances, swerve to avoid your opponent; or ostentatiously removing your steering wheel and throwing it out the window? As noted by innumerable game theorists over the past fifty years, the latter strategy is the only one which is useful: Humans can't be — and aren't — trusted to follow their stated intentions. I was reminded of this by 37signals' response on Monday to last week's cat.jpg privacy failure . To be clear, I have a lot of sympathy for 37signals: Once someone looked in their logs and saw "cat.jpg" as the name of the one hundred millionth file they had stored, I'm sure the resulting fit of laughter significantly impaired the possibility of rational thought; and their response is certainly better than finding a scapegoat or trying to cover up the mistake.
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Yubico
Superior security The YubiKey is a unique USB-key providing strong two-factor authentication, combining something you know (a PIN or password) with a physical device generating encrypted one time passwords. It protects your online identity from malware and hackers at a security level that can be compared with a smart card , and is manufactured in Sweden and California with best practice security processes .
OpenDNS | Providing A Safer And Faster DNS
by Dan Hubbard, CTO We're looking for people to beta test DNSCrypt for Windows. Ultimately we expect DNSCrypt to vastly improve Internet security and privacy for people all over the world, so we're looking for all types to beta test.A firewall protects your computer against unwanted guests from the Internet. But who protects your private data from being sent out? Little Snitch does!
Little Snitch
BleachBit | BleachBit
BleachBit quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy. Free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and discard junk you didn't know was there. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean 90 applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari,and more . Beyond simply deleting files, BleachBit includes advanced features such as shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space to hide traces of files deleted by other applications, and vacuuming Firefox to make it faster. Better than free, BleachBit is open source.
Give Me My Data is a Facebook application that helps users export their data out of Facebook for reuse in visualizations, archives, or any possible method of digital storytelling.
Give Me My Data | A Facebook application to reclaim your information
Darik's Boot And Nuke | Hard Drive Disk Wipe
Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction. DBAN is a means of ensuring due diligence in computer recycling, a way of preventing identity theft if you want to sell a computer, and a good way to totally clean a Microsoft Windows installation of viruses and spyware.
