Telecommunications data retention In the field of telecommunications, data retention (or data preservation) generally refers to the storage of call detail records (CDRs) of telephony and internet traffic and transaction data (IPDRs) by governments and commercial organisations. In the case of government data retention, the data that is stored is usually of telephone calls made and received, emails sent and received and web sites visited. Location data is also collected. The primary objective in government data retention is traffic analysis and mass surveillance. By analysing the retained data, governments can identify the locations of individuals, an individual's associates and the members of a group such as political opponents. These activities may or may not be lawful, depending on the constitutions and laws of each country. In the case of commercial data retention, the data retained will usually be on transactions and web sites visited. European Union[edit] United Kingdom[edit] Retention of other data[edit] Italy[edit]
European Data Protection Authorities Publish Guidelines Clarifying Exemptions to Cookie Consent Requirement : Privacy Law Blog Home > Data Privacy Laws > European Data Protection Authorities Publish Guidelines Clarifying Exemptions to Cookie Consent Requirement On June 7, 2012, the Article 29 Working Party, an independent advisory body composed of representatives from the national data protection authorities of the EU Member States, the European Data Protection Supervisor and the European Commission, issued Opinion 04/2012 regarding which types of cookies are exempted from the informed user-consent requirement under Directive 2002/58 of the European Parliament (the E-Privacy Directive). Article 5.3 of the E-Privacy Directive requires that websites must obtain informed consent from users prior to storing cookies on users’ equipment. With regard to the first exemption, the Opinion stresses its narrow scope: the words “sole purpose” mean that such cookies will be exempted only if they are strictly necessary for communication to take place over a network between two parties.
OpenID Explained What is OpenID? OpenID allows you to use an existing account to sign in to multiple websites, without needing to create new passwords. You may choose to associate information with your OpenID that can be shared with the websites you visit, such as a name or email address. With OpenID, you control how much of that information is shared with the websites you visit. With OpenID, your password is only given to your identity provider, and that provider then confirms your identity to the websites you visit. Other than your provider, no website ever sees your password, so you don’t need to worry about an unscrupulous or insecure website compromising your identity. OpenID is rapidly gaining adoption on the web, with over one billion OpenID enabled user accounts and over 50,000 websites accepting OpenID for logins. Who Owns or Controls OpenID? OpenID was created in the summer of 2005 by an open source community trying to solve a problem that was not easily solved by other existing identity technologies.
Codes/processes - Simplify Facebook Wall Would you like to have more power over your wall? The following user scripts will help you to tweak your Facebook wall to de-clutter and simplify it! Note: All the three user scripts listed here to declutter Facebook have been tested on FireFox (through Greasemonkey). 1. Simplified Facebook adds a new box to your Facebook wall that enables you to easily filter out certain updates from your wall: Remove likes,Remove new friendships,Remove applications,Remove links,Remove photos,Remove applications. 2. Remove Facebook Right-Column: While the above script lets you filter out irrelevant updates from your stream, this one lets you move focus to your wall updates. 3. Better Facebook is the most advanced script of all reviewed here. 1. Mind that using filters may slow down Facebook while posts are being processed. 2. 3.
The RFID Ecosystem Project - University of Washington, CSE How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking | Gadget Lab In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages. In many ways, this was all my fault. Had I been regularly backing up the data on my MacBook, I wouldn’t have had to worry about losing more than a year’s worth of photos, covering the entire lifespan of my daughter, or documents and e-mails that I had stored in no other location. Those security lapses are my fault, and I deeply, deeply regret them. But what happened to me exposes vital security flaws in several customer service systems, most notably Apple’s and Amazon’s. This isn’t just my problem. The very four digits that Amazon considers unimportant enough to display in the clear on the Web are precisely the same ones that Apple considers secure enough to perform identity verification. I realized something was wrong at about 5 p.m. on Friday. Lulz. “Wait. “Mr.
SecureUDID | a Crashlytics Innovation Facebook reveals its evil plans | Cringely Remember how everyone said that after Facebook went public, it would one day begin to reveal its evil plans for turning your personal data into money? It's heeeeeerrre. There are two bits of news that herald the new dawn of Facebook, or as I like to call it, The Social Network That Never Met a Data Point It Didn't Want to Own (TSNTNMADPIDWTO for short). [ Want to cash in on your IT experiences? InfoWorld is looking for stories of an amazing or amusing IT adventure, lesson learned, or tales from the trenches. First: Facebook has begun to archive your search histories. As with Google, you have the option of deleting your searches from your Timeline or making them visible only to you (once you find out where they're kept -- it's not obvious). Second: The Financial Times reports (via CNN) that Facebook has partnered with a company that will allow it to track which users bought products after seeing ads for them on Facebook. Who the heck is Datalogix?
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Protect Your Privacy Opt Out of Facebook’s New Instant Personali Facebook does it again! I see this when I check my page today. Connect with your friends on your favorite websites. Sounds great. Yes I can easily opt out, not opt in, opt out. When I unchecked the box I got this box telling me how sad & lonely my internet experience will be without Instant Personalization. Except wait, what’s that bit at the end? Allowing instant personalization will give you a richer experience as you browse the web. When I click on “Learn More” I go to this page, where I finally find How do I opt-out of instant personalization? Yes you must go to each application and click block. So to recap to completely opt out you need to
Your Mom’s Guide to Those Facebook Changes, and How to Block The Facebook launched some fairly impressive new features and services at its recent f8 conference, but some of them were also more than just a little scary. Since a lot of what the company talked about was introduced in either “developer speak” — involving terms like API and JSON — or involved social networking jargon such as “social graph” and “activity map,” we thought it would be handy to break it down for those who aren’t as well versed in such things (maybe your mom, maybe your brother-in-law — maybe you). What do these changes mean? And what should you do if you don’t like the prospect of automatically sharing your activity with everyone you know on Facebook? Liking without logging in: The biggest change Facebook has launched will let any website you visit display a simple “like” button, for example on a story at CNN.com — although CNN has decided to use the term “recommend” instead. Instant personalization: What should you do? But what if you don’t want to cancel your account?
2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report Microsoft receives legal demands for customer data from law enforcement agencies around the world. In March 2013, as part of our commitment to increased transparency, Microsoft began publishing details of the number of demands we receive each year in our Law Enforcement Requests Report and clear documentation of our established practices in responding to government legal demands for customer data. We update this report every six months, and each report includes the number of demands we receive and the number of accounts or identifiers that may be affected by these demands. We also provide details on the number of demands we complied with and, if we complied, whether we provided content or non-content data. This Law Enforcement Requests Report is focused only on law enforcement requests at this time and does not include data about national security requests. However, we have also recently been permitted to begin publishing data about the number of legal demands we receive from the U.S.