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If You Care About Privacy Don’t Do These 8 Things
I don’t care as much about privacy like some people do. My concern is personal security. If I was concerned about people knowing “me” stuff then you wouldn’t be reading this because I’d live in a cave in Wyoming with no Internet and I’d blow glass all day. But personal security is something I deeply care about. The following are both privacy issues and a little personal security in there too. Don’t throw away anything that can be used against…
Forget Privacy, Think Security
all your hair and are popping Prozac to relieve the stress of todays anti-private society. And you are fully employed and very very busy. My gripe, people are freaking about full body scanners at the airports and the privacy issues involved. This isn’t a privacy issue, it’s a security issue. If you have to show a black and white image of your bum bum to avoid the plane from being blown up, so be it. Otherwise don’t fly. “Privacy is dead, deal wi…
Privacy Is Dead, Identity Theft Prospers
My information is in lots and lots of different places. I sacrifice a lot of privacy because of the nature of my business. If I wasnt so dependant on eyeballs I’d live much differently. However to participate in society on any level, privacy becomes a dead issue. Accept it. Or live in the jungle in Africa. A CEO of a major software company declares, “You have zero privacy, get over it.” In response, the FTC states, “Millions of American consumer…
Your Rights To Online Privacy
“Americans have always cherished our privacy. From the birth of our republic, we assured ourselves protection against unlawful intrusion into our homes and our personal papers. At the same time, we set up a postal system to enable citizens all over the new nation to engage in commerce and political discourse. Soon after, Congress made it a crime to invade the privacy of the mails. And later we extended privacy protections to new modes of communi…
Redefining Privacy Today
Privacy advocates: These are your everyday well meaning and well informed people all the way up to privacy professionals who, day in and day out preach the absolutes of privacy and why we need it. They are evangelists of the issues and tell anyone and everyone the importance of privacy whether they want to hear it or not. #2 Sales, marketers, advertisers, SMB and big business who stand to gain from knowing every last details about what you like,…
Want Privacy? On Facebook? Shut Up!
…USE THERE IS AN OBVIOUS ISSUE WITH FACEBOOK AND P RI VACY. The major issue here is not that Facebook isn’t private, it’s that some people want it to be private and its not and they can’t have their cake and eat it too. Privacy has always been a hotbed media grabbing issue that sells news too, so the few privacy pundits that there are, get all this attention by pointing the finger. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebooks head dude said “ p eopl…
Data Privacy Day 2012
Lately, it seems that barely a day goes by when we don’t learn about a major Internet presence taking steps to further erode users’ privacy. The companies with access to our data are tracking us in ways that make Big Brother look like a sweet little baby sister. Typically when we hear an outcry about privacy violations, these perceived violations involve some apparently omnipotent corporation recording the websites we visit, the applications we…
Identity Theft Expert Speaker; Panel proposes expanded privacy in public records
Identity Theft Expert Speaker Robert Siciliano www.IDTheftSecurity.com Comments; Most of the comments by those polled below are legitimate concerns fraught with desperation and lack of understanding of the problem. The proverbial cat is out of the bag. Privacy is dead. Privacy is an illusion. While the masses say they want privacy, the reality is they want cheap goods and convenience. People will give up all their privacy for a free candy bar….
Identity Theft Expert and Speaker on Personal Security: News Media Chronicles Robert Siciliano’s Disagreement with Policymakers on REAL ID Act
…IDTheftSecurity.com and a member of the Bank Fraud & IT Security Report‘s editorial board, Siciliano leads Fortune 500 companies and their clients in workshops that explore consumer education solutions for security issues. An experienced identity theft speaker and author of "The Safety Minute: 01," he has discussed data security and consumer protection on CNBC, on NBC’s "Today Show," on FOX News, and elsewhere…
Privacy Laws for Kids Online
Numerous privacy groups are urging the FTC to update its Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998. The primary goal of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA, is to give parents control over what information is collected from their children online and how such information may be used. Jeff Chester, Executive Director of the Center for Digital Democracy said, “The Commission should enact new rules for COPPA that draw…
FTC and Consumers Want Companies to Take Privacy More Seriously
…d passwords and other personal data from home wireless networks. The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission Edith Ramirez recently remarked, “Over the last three years, the FTC has issued more than 50 enforcement actions on privacy and data enforcement, and no fewer than five major policy reports giving guidance to companies.” Concern about data privacy is reaching critical mass. It’s no wonder why AnchorFree, the provider of the world’s most…
Online Privacy: Fighting for Your Eyeballs
You may have noticed that the Internet is expanding. Major newspapers are publishing all their content online, because the readers expect and demand it. 23 of the 25 largest newspapers are seeing declines in readership. And if people aren’t buying newspapers, advertisers won’t place ads in them. Newspapers hire journalists to investigate the issues that affect us on a daily basis. It’s these well-paid, experienced journalists who keep us informe…
Beware of Facebook Dangers
…o take you down. But every week there is a new story about a security breach or a privacy violation. That tells me it’s more than growing pains or jealousy. There are serious management problems there resulting in reputation issues for the company and for the user, security issues. DANGER , DANGER! The 3 rd party applications in the form of games and quizzes are sharing data that’s not meant to be shared. While the user may agree to the…
Internet Privacy Tools for Online Safety
Drug dealers, child pornographers, terrorists and criminal hackers, are often sharing the same Internet privacy tools as law enforcement, domestic violence victims and citizens of oppressive governments who most likely use a “darknet” which is an anonymous secret internet designed to cover their tracks and protect them from internet surveillance. The “darknet” is used by both good and bad people with various intentions. These internet security t…
5 Ways to Ensure Online Privacy for Kids
Congress and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have taken special steps to ensure that children under 13 years of age don’t share their personal information on the Internet without the express approval of their parents. Congress passed the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) in 1998 and the FTC wrote a rule implementing the law. The FTC currently is conducting a review of what changes, if any, should be made to COPPA to reflect the…