privacy

  1. Repairman-Jack

    TECH DuckDuckGo browser allows Microsoft trackers due to search agreement

    Seems DuckDuckGo keeps failing to live up to their own hype on privacy. DuckDuckGo browser allows Microsoft trackers due to search agreement (bleepingcomputer.com) The privacy-focused DuckDuckGo browser purposely allows Microsoft trackers on third-party sites due to an agreement in their...
  2. H

    TECH Google’s smart city dream is turning into a privacy nightmare

    Anyone remember the novel "Oath of Fealty" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle?..... For links see article source..... Posted for fair use..... https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/26/sidewalk-labs-ann-cavoukian-smart-city/ Google’s smart city dream is turning into a privacy nightmare Sidewalk...
  3. H

    OP-ED Peggy Noonan: From Facebook to Harvey Weinstein, America’s scandals amount to a giant crisis of maturity.

    For links see article source..... Posted for fair use..... https://www.wsj.com/articles/if-adults-wont-grow-up-nobody-will-1522970344 OPINION DECLARATIONS If Adults Won’t Grow Up, Nobody Will From Facebook to Harvey Weinstein, America’s scandals amount to a giant crisis of maturity. By...
  4. ChickenLittle

    TECH Privacy and cleaning up your digital footprint

    I've been researching ways to improve my privacy lately and came across an interesting How To article that I want to share with anyone else that might want to decrease the amount of online information that is readily available. This is a blog post by a woman that is an information security...
  5. RCSAR

    TECH PRIVACY: Google-Android- Voice Recording

    Kinda wish we had a privacy prefix but I'm not sure anyone cares. In Texas only one party in the conversation needs to give permission for a conversation to be recorded. I'm sure you do that with your Android phone when you agree to the terms of use. Anyway, Android phones record...
  6. Weps

    VIDEO HOPE X (2014): You've Lost Privacy, Now They're Taking Anonymity

    Steve Rambam, a PI and the CEO of Pallorium, Inc giving a lecture on privacy and anonymity at HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) 2014. I recommend watching the entire video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNZrq2iK87k
  7. Jubilee on Earth

    TIP Watch out! Amazon couldn't care less about your privacy on Facebook!!!

    There it was this morning on my Facebook feed from Amazon. "Enter to win a new Kindle Fire and $100 Amazon gift card." All you have to do is click on the URL. So I clicked on the URL, and a box popped up, asking me to grand permission for the Amazon app. I couldn't believe what the app was...
  8. Kook

    TECH A spooky thing just happened.......

    .....to me on the internet. This morning, about 11:30 AM, I was talking to my best bud, a guy I've known for 38 years, on the phone. He wanted to know what was available, at reasonable cost, to build a nice stereo system. I went over to Amazon.com and starting reading some specs to him of some...
  9. davidinthewilderness

    TECH What is your favorite computer tracker blocker?

    Striving for privacy is becoming an art of dodging and blocking kind of like doge ball in kinder and gentler years. What is your favorite blocker for your computer? I have three running to see their effectiveness. Abine for Firefox Ghostery Collusion Wondering, Celeste
  10. davidinthewilderness

    TECH Dear Google User

    Now that everyone from DHS to ??? has codified the pillaging of your personal information the frenzy has begun. This came in the inbox this morning: Dear Google user, We're getting rid of over 60 different privacy policies across Google and replacing them with one that's a lot shorter and...
  11. davidinthewilderness

    GOV/MIL Surveillance-Streams of Data Flowing with American Blood

    Part 1: Plague of Blood-VS 2015 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. Psalm 42 By Celeste Bishop Hyperlinks and graphic at: http://www.nonaiswa.org/?p=7658 All humans and animals long for streams of pure crystal clear water freely gushing forth from the...
  12. davidinthewilderness

    FOOD Food and Privacy: Does anyone care?

    I just went to the Federal Register and out of almost 312,000,000 Americans (approximately), some of which have been fighting NAIS/Traceability since it became public, to date, precisely 8 people have made comments. This proposed regulation is the third pillar of NAIS: surveillance, allot of...
  13. davidinthewilderness

    FOOD Help! The Food Fight Continues: Your Privacy Clashes with ‘Animal’ Health- (AHMS)

    Animal Health Monitoring and Surveillance System Celeste Bishop (To date 3 people have made comments on this crucial regulation. Take time to make your voice heard today, For the Record. Comment Deadline: DECEMBER 28th, IMPLEMENTATION DATE: January 9th) The USDA and APHIS are embarking in...
  14. hypoluxo

    TIP Privnote - One-time notes destroyed after reading

    I came across this site from J.J. Luna's privacy site. From the Privnote web site: Have you ever wanted to send confidential information within your work environment, to family or friends, but were afraid to do so over the internet, because some malicious hacker could be spying on you...
  15. F

    TECH Facebook Violates User Privacy Again

    Facebook is at the centre of another privacy row after bringing in facial recognition technology to automatically identify users in pictures. The world's leading social network has begun rolling out new technology that automatically identifies and 'tags' people in photos uploaded to the...
  16. M

    TECH Google admits 'street view' cars leeched private info

    Google says its cars grabbed emails, passwords http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Google-says-its-cars-grabbed-rb-2490005519.html%3B_ylt%3DAr5TquOEgZBqtZDgB8djzsy7YWsA%3B_ylu%3DX3oDMTE1azA3ZzV0BHBvcwM3BHNlYwN0b3BTdG9yaWVzBHNsawNnb29nbGVzYXlzaXQ-?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=3&asset=&ccode= On Friday...
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    GOV/MIL ACLU Study Highlights U.S. Surveillance Society

    By David Kravets June 29, 2010 Welcome to the surveillance society. That’s what the American Civil Liberties Union concluded Tuesday with a report chronicling government spying and the detention of groups and individuals “for doing little more than peacefully exercising their First Amendment...
  18. Dancr

    LEGAL You Can't Search Me, by Paranoid Larry

    Check out this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-1UX89JtJE Let's all learn to sing this and play it. Learn the harmony parts. Then, when we get together it can be one of our songs.
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