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Is your online personal data up for sale? - Inside Story Americas
Facebook is likely to smash Wall Street records when it floats on the NASDAQ stock exchange this week. But in an age when we increasingly live our lives online, how worried should we be about what companies and governments do with our personal data? When Facebook begins issuing shares on Friday, it is expected that the company will be valued at $100bn, three times the GDP of Kenya - a remarkable rise for a company that was started in a Harvard dorm room.The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has created this Surveillance Self-Defense site to educate the American public about the law and technology of government surveillance in the United States, providing the information and tools necessary to evaluate the threat of surveillance and take appropriate steps to defend against it. Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD) exists to answer two main questions: What can the government legally do to spy on your computer data and communications? And what can you legally do to protect yourself against such spying? After an introductory discussion of how you should think about making security decisions — it's all about risk management — we'll be answering those two questions for three types of data:
The SSD Project | EFF Surveillance Self-Defense Project
Web Browsers | EFF Surveillance Self-Defense Project
Web browsers are software on your machine that communicate with servers or hosts on the Internet.
Are You Being Tracked? 8 Ways Your Privacy Is Being Eroded Online and Off | Media | AlterNet
In a recent hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Al Franken reminded his fellow Americans, “People have a fundamental right to control their private information.” At the hearing, Franken raised an alarm about Carrier IQ’s software, CIQ.
There has been a rolling scandal about the Carrier IQ software installed by cell phone companies on 150 million phones , mostly within the United States. Subjects of outright disagreement have included the nature of the program, what information it actually collects, and under what circumstances.
Some Facts About Carrier IQ | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Top 10 Privacy Tweaks You Should Know About
With all the talk lately about Facebook's flawed privacy systems, it's a good time to consider what you're making available elsewhere on the web and on your system. These 10 settings tweaks and setups make your web life a little less public. Photo by Jorge Franganillo .
Tracking the Trackers: Where Everybody Knows Your Username | Stanford Center for Internet and Society
Click the local Home Depot ad and your email address gets handed to a dozen companies monitoring you.
Photobucket, Wall Street Journal , Home Depot take liberties with your personal info
Hundreds of websites share usernames sans permission • The Register
Stealing Your Address Book by Dustin Curtis
It's not really a secret, per se, but there's a quiet understanding among many iOS app developers that it is acceptable to send a user's entire address book, without their permission, to remote servers and then store it for future reference. It's common practice, and many companies likely have your address book stored in their database.