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BBC News - Be careful what you tweet - 0 views

  • Nothing said online is really private, says Bill Thompson
  • Twitter and Facebook create a social space that encourages informality, rapid responses and the sort of conversation that typically takes place between friends in contexts that are either private or public-private, like the street, pub or cafe.
  • any services make comments visible to large numbers of people and search engines ensure that a permanent record is kept of every inane observation, spiteful aside or potentially libellous comment on a respected public figure.
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  • This is something that TV nutritionist Gillian McKeith has just discovered the hard way
  • weets have no legal immunity
  • We may eventually develop a set of social rules and legal conventions that acknowledge that an angry tweet is less likely to be considered defamatory than a published article, but we are not there yet.
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BBC News - Clarity call for mobile and internet privacy - 0 views

  • Clarity call for mobile and internet privacy
  • The Communications Consumer Panel said that people should have control over which information is shared.
  • Data doubts
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  • The panel, which was set up to advise communications regulator Ofcom about consumers' interests, wants more control for shoppers over their data.
  • Consumers using their mobile phones can allow businesses to collect data about their location and the products and services they are interested in.
  • the Information Commissioner raised concerns over people's awareness of data privacy.
  • "It has never been more important to protect your personal information. Whether you are surfing the net, shopping online or signing up to social networking sites, it is crucial that people are thinking about how their information might be used," said Christopher Graham, the Information Commissioner.
  • From employers looking up potential employees on Facebook to cyber-criminals hacking into unsecured wi-fi networks, not protecting your personal information can cause serious harm and distress."
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BBC News - Google cookies 'bypassed Safari privacy protection' - 0 views

  • Google cookies 'bypassed Safari privacy protection'
  • The Wall Street Journal said Google and other companies had worked around privacy settings designed to restrict cookies
  • Cookies are small text files stored by browsers which can record information about online activity, and help some online services work
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  • The Safari browser is produced by Apple, and is the browser used by the iPhone.
  • y default Safari only allows cookies to be stored by the web page a user is visiting, not from third parties such as advertisers
  • esearcher Jonathan Mayer found that advertisers were still able to store cookies on the computers of internet users browsing with Safari.
  • We are aware that some third parties are circumventing Safari's privacy features and we are working to put a stop to it”
  • The Wall Street Journal reported that Google "disabled the code after being contacted by the paper".
  • Online privacy advocates were highly critical of Google's actions.
  • The Electronic Frontier Foundation wrote: "It's time for Google to acknowledge that it can do a better job of respecting the privacy of web users."
  • An Apple spokesman said in a statement: "We are aware that some third parties are circumventing Safari's privacy features and we are working to put a stop to it."
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BBC News - Internet privacy: Genuine concerns or paranoia? - 0 views

  • However unwittingly, you share personal information with complete strangers every single day - via the internet.
  • Mr Chester.
  • But Google is not the only internet service busy farming out data and this raises the question of the invasion of people's rights.
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  • "Companies like Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Microsoft are expanding their data collection techniques and they are not telling consumers and citizens why,"
  • The issue is about how you pay for online services and whether you are happy to sacrifice privacy for getting a service for free.
  • Google has changed its rules to allow information to be shared across all its services.
  • e believes it is the Europeans who are driving the policy debate, while the US strategy is to lobby the Europeans to accept the idea that there can be self-regulation, to trust the Googles and Facebooks and let this market grow.
  • The users themselves are problems as well," he says "Because they post, blog, tweet and do everything else also."
  • A lot of times most people click 'Yes' without reading what the privacy policies are” End Quote Frank Ahern
  • Most newspapers in the world are posting every newspaper they have ever printed, so people are finding that things they did in the past are being made public.
  • Internet privacy: Genuine concerns or paranoia?
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BBC News - SpongeBob app pulled over children's privacy complaint - 0 views

  • pongeBob app became the latest game to be pulled following a complaint it had violated children's privacy rights.
  • The Washington DC-based group urged the FTC to investigate Nickelodeon and mobile game-maker PlayFirst's privacy practices.
  • ickelodeon has denied the allegation that it breached children's online privacy rules.
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  • The Center for Digital Democracy said children's email addresses had been collected without parental consent.
  • The SpongeBob Diner Dash game asks children to provide a wide range of personal information
  • The FTC last week published a report on mobile apps for children that showed parents were not being provided with information about what data an app collected, who would have access to that data, and how it would be used.
  • All of the companies in the mobile app space, especially the gatekeepers of the app stores, need to do a better job. We'll do another survey in the future and we will expect to see improvement."
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Iskanje sorodne duše na spletu zna biti nevarno za denarnico | Dnevnik - 0 views

  • »sladke pasti« spletnih romanc
  • S klikom na spletne povezave v takem elektronskem sporočilu uporabnik tvega možnost okužbe svojega računalnika z neke vrste zlonamernim programom, ki se običajno namesti na računalnik
  • »Internet ponuja dovolj priložnosti za komuniciranje. Kljub temu pa ni vedno varen prostor za iskanje ljubezenskih razmerij.
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  • ZDA se je od leta 2005 dalje v skupino za pomoč žrtvam romantičnih prevar včlanilo že 48.000 ljudi, skupaj pa so prevarantom nakazali 14,1 milijona dolarjev.
  • ovedal Božič in svetoval: »Gre za socialni inženiring, kjer nas goljuf z različnimi triki prepriča oziroma nam delno izklopi ta zdrav razum. Svetujemo, da se vedno, preden pride do denarne transakcije, počaka.
  • »nigerijska nezaželena pošta«
  • »lažna ljubezen« ena izmed petih najbolj pogostih goljufij, pri čemer se v novembru število pritožb poveča za 30 odstotkov
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