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An infographic detailing which states have the most identity fraud complaints, the most popular strategies used, and some ways to protect yourself.
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Video: In this interview from the 2013 RSA Conference, Bruce Schneier details why there is no privacy on the Internet and how government regulation may restore Internet privacy.
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Earlier, we posted about Twitter's new tailored advertising announcement. We applauded Twitter's commitment to privacy by allowing two opt-out mechanisms—both an internal setting and your browser's Do Not Track capability.
To make things easier for you, here's a guide to opt out of Twitter's tailored advertisements and how best to protect yourself from online tracking. Opting out of Twitter's tailored advertisements
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To make things easier for you, here's a guide to opt out of Twitter's tailored advertisements and how best to protect yourself from online tracking. Opting out of Twitter's tailored advertisements Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/social-media-and-its-influence
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July 10, 2013 7:31 AM
To make things easier for you, here's a guide to opt out of Twitter's tailored advertisements and how best to protect yourself from online tracking. Opting out of Twitter's tailored advertisementsLearn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/social-media-and-its-influence
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More and more we see social media and other application sites on the Internet providing single sign-on (SSO) as a feature or service to their visitors.
I’m sure you’ve visited a site and seen an invitation to logon using your Facebook or Google+ credentials. Many times, these sites also encourage you to share articles to Facebook, Google, or other sites. Amazon recently joined this trend and announced Login with Amazon for their customers to use.
You undoubtedly enjoy the convenience of SSO. After all, it reduces the number of different accounts and passwords that you must remember, and that’s a good thing. Right?
Well, it’s not quite that simple. Any time a company offers you a SSO service, remember that their primary motivation is to find some way to monetize their relationship with you, the consumer.
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About a year after Facebook reportedly joined PRISM, Max Kelly, the social network's chief security officer left for a job at the National Security Agency, either a curious career move or one that makes complete sense...
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Most of them set their Facebook profiles to private, however. ;
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A tale of what it feels like when facebook comes and changes things around again. Subscribe: http://tinyurl.com/bnvjec9 Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/c48d7fs ...
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May 12, 2013 10:24 AM
A MUST watch!!!
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- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?q=Privacy
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You’ve probably been using for Facebook for years. Thus your profile has all kinds of likes and apps you probably don’t remember adding.
That’s why spring is the perfect time to look at your page and try to make it new again.
Here are 3 easy steps that will improve your privacy and your Facebook experience.
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Check it out, a MUST!!!
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- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet?tag=Privacy
- http://www.scoop.it/t/social-media-and-its-influence?tag=Privacy
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April 15, 2013 11:50 AM
Check it out, a MUST!!!
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- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet?tag=Privacy
- http://www.scoop.it/t/social-media-and-its-influence?tag=Privacy
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April 15, 2013 6:55 PM
It's time to do some spring cleaning with your Facebook account....
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C'est la nouvelle qui fait peur : un outil d'analyse de vos comptes sur les réseaux sociaux, capable de tout connaître (ou presque) de vous et de prévoir votre comportement. Comment ça, "déjà vu" ?
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Privacy at danger!!!
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After examining parts of Facebook’s source code, the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) and a German data protection regulator have both confirmed that the social network has ...
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Privacy matters!!!
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"There should be millions of Twitter users that have signed in with Twitter into third-party applications. Some of these applications might have gained access to and might still have access to Twitter users private direct messages," he points out, and advises users to check third-party applications permissions and revoke the apps to which they never gave permission to access their DMs.
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===> check third-party applications permissions and revoke the apps to which they never gave permission to access YOUR DMs. <===
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January 22, 2013 11:42 AM
===> check third-party applications permissions and revoke the apps to which they never gave permission to access YOUR DMs. <===
Check ALSO:
- https://twitter.com/settings/applications
- http://blog.ioactive.com/2013/01/you-can-not-trust-social-media-twitter-vulnerable.html
- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/naivety-in-the-digital-age/
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January 22, 2013 11:54 AM
===> check third-party applications permissions and revoke the apps to which they never gave permission to access YOUR DMs. <===
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January 22, 2013 11:59 AM
===> check third-party applications permissions and revoke the apps to which they never gave permission to access YOUR DMs. <===
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No, Graph Search doesn't affect your privacy settings, but it surely makes digging up information about you really easy. Now's a good time to review what you're sharing and how you're sharing it. Read this article by Sharon Vaknin on CNET.
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Privacy MATTERS!!!
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Former "voice of the boy king" - aka ghostwriter to Mark Zuckerberg - Katherine Losse says she was stunned when they handed over a password that could get her into any account, all sans background ...
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It appears that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his minions, in the early days, had a master password with which they could sign in to any user account and poke at whatever data we entrusted to the site.
The Guardian gleaned this from Zuckerberg's former speechwriter, Katherine Losse.
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July 19, 2013 6:15 PM
It appears that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his minions, in the early days, had a master password with which they could sign in to any user account and poke at whatever data we entrusted to the site.
The Guardian gleaned this from Zuckerberg's former speechwriter, Katherine Losse.
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It's no secret that there's big money to be made in violating your privacy. Companies will pay big bucks to learn more about you, and service providers on the web are eager to get their hands on as much information about you as possible.
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A discovery about Facebook's official Android app once again puts into question if the social network's developers truly *get* security and privacy.
As Symantec describe on its blog, when its developers tested its new Norton Mobile Security product against some of the world’s most popular Android apps, they were disturbed to see a warning message claiming that the Facebook Android app leaks personal information without the device owner’s knowledge:
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As Symantec describe on its blog, when its developers tested its new Norton Mobile Security product against some of the world’s most popular Android apps, they were disturbed to see a warning message claiming that the Facebook Android app leaks personal information without the device owner’s knowledge...
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June 29, 2013 7:42 AM
As Symantec describe on its blog, when its developers tested its new Norton Mobile Security product against some of the world’s most popular Android apps, they were disturbed to see a warning message claiming that the Facebook Android app leaks personal information without the device owner’s knowledge...
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Everyone's worried about how their data can be collected through government programs, but maybe it's time to look at how your information is tracked in everyday life.
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June 27, 2013 10:40 AM
Just in case you were wondering how your information is being tracked. 
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June 30, 2013 2:39 AM
Frightning. If this makes you think, take a look at Juan Enriquez talk on TED - Your online life, Permanent as a Tattoo. http://www.ted.com/talks/juan_enriquez_how_to_think_about_digital_tattoos.html
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A Facebook security bug exposed users’ personal contact information (email or phone number) to other users who were connected to them; the bug has affected six million accounts...
A Facebook spokesperson tells me the bug ===> has been live since last year, and was discovered last week. <===
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A Facebook spokesperson tells me the bug ===> has been live since last year, and was discovered last week. <===
Facebook says the security team fixed the bug less than 24 hours after it was brought to their attention.
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June 21, 2013 5:39 PM
A Facebook spokesperson tells me the bug ===> has been live since last year, and was discovered last week. <=== Facebook says the security team fixed the bug less than 24 hours after it was brought to their attention.
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Researchers at Canada's University of Victoria have published a website, CATSMI, that provides information on more than 20 social networks privacy policies and what they mean to you.
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Youth are sharing more personal information on their profiles than in the past. They choose private settings for Facebook, but share with large networks of friends.
Key findings include:
Teens are sharing more information about themselves on their social media profiles than they did when we last surveyed in 2006:
- 91% post a photo of themselves, up from 79% in 2006.
- 71% post their school name, up from 49%.
- 71% post the city or town where they live, up from 61%.
- 53% post their email address, up from 29%.
- 20% post their cell phone number, up from 2%.
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May 22, 2013 7:58 AM
The Pew Reports are always fascinating. 
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May 22, 2013 11:28 AM
Youth are sharing more personal information on their profiles than in the past. They choose private settings for Facebook, but share with large networks of friends.
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The relationship between cybersecurity and privacy is complex. On the one hand, cybersecurity that protects data from intrusion, theft and misuse obviously is a significant privacy safeguard. On the other hand, cybersecurity measures that monitor access and use can implicate the collection of personal information and thus raises privacy concerns.
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- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?q=Privacy
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- https://gustmeesen.wordpress.com/
- https://gustmeesfr.wordpress.com/
- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/naivety-in-the-digital-age/
- https://gustmeesen.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/beginners-it-security-guide/
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April 26, 2013 8:12 AM
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- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?q=Privacy
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- https://gustmeesen.wordpress.com/
- https://gustmeesfr.wordpress.com/
- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/naivety-in-the-digital-age/
- https://gustmeesen.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/beginners-it-security-guide/
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April 26, 2013 8:19 AM
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- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?q=Privacy
- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/
- https://gustmeesen.wordpress.com/
- https://gustmeesfr.wordpress.com/
- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/naivety-in-the-digital-age/
- https://gustmeesen.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/beginners-it-security-guide/
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April 4, 2014 12:54 PM
I totally agree with the article's stand on "thoughtfully limited use" of private information. I predicted some of what is discussed here in an article I wrote about the British Information Commissioner's Office and their Privacy Impact Assessments Code, which is here:
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Big data is not your friend because it can easily be used to reveal highly personal information...
Big data is the Stasi of our online worlds There are many "silent listeners" in social networks that collect people's "Likes" and other online behaviors so that the information can be sold discretely to third parties. Facebook, Google, and all other social networks, also collect such behavioral information.
===> While the companies say that their behavioral Big Data is stripped of users' names, it is possible to use other databases such as electoral records, demographic information, and location data, to identify individuals by name. It's essentially a secret dossier on more than a 1 billion social network users. <===
While this dossier is fragmented at the moment, sophisticated new technologies will soon make it trivial to pull together a massive amount of sensitive private data on every individual that interacts with the Internet in any way.
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===> While the companies say that their behavioral Big Data is stripped of users' names, it is possible to use other databases such as electoral records, demographic information, and location data, to identify individuals by name. It's essentially a secret dossier on more than a 1 billion social network users. <===
While this dossier is fragmented at the moment, sophisticated new technologies will soon make it trivial to pull together a massive amount of sensitive private data on every individual that interacts with the Internet in any way.
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- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet?tag=Privacy
- http://www.scoop.it/t/social-media-and-its-influence?tag=Privacy
===> BIG BROTHER is watching YOU!!! <===
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March 29, 2013 2:07 PM
===> While the companies say that their behavioral Big Data is stripped of users' names, it is possible to use other databases such as electoral records, demographic information, and location data, to identify individuals by name. It's essentially a secret dossier on more than a 1 billion social network users. <===
While this dossier is fragmented at the moment, sophisticated new technologies will soon make it trivial to pull together a massive amount of sensitive private data on every individual that interacts with the Internet in any way.
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- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet?tag=Privacy
- http://www.scoop.it/t/social-media-and-its-influence?tag=Privacy
===> BIG BROTHER is watching YOU!!! <===
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Experts say that the social media technology and the ability for companies to harness our personal information is moving faster than the laws in place to protect our privacy.
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Privacy matters and it should ALSO get taught in schools!
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February 10, 2013 6:43 PM
Privacy matters and it should ALSO get taught in schools!
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- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Privacy
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet?tag=Privacy
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Post highlighting embarrassing things raises questions of user privacy with Graph Search, which Facebook users cannot opt out of
Facebook believes its responsibility is to provide the privacy settings, while users are responsible for using them. "You control who you share your interests and likes with on Facebook," the company said Thursday in an emailed statement.
When joining Facebook, people trade their personal information for free use of the social network. Given that, security experts agree that people are responsible for controlling who sees that information.
However, some experts believe Facebook does not go far enough in educating users about the potential threats in keeping information public. Because Graph Search makes all that personal information easily searchable, education on its dangers should be a much higher priority for Facebook.
===> "Some people do not grasp the importance of Graph Search," said Bogdon Botezatu, a senior e-threat analyst for Bitdefender. "So maybe it would be better for Facebook to actually inform people that some things will change." <===
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A MUST read and ALSO to learn about the basic knowledge of Cyber-Security! - https://gustmees.wordpress.com/category/get-smart-with-5-minutes-tutorials/
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January 27, 2013 12:39 PM
A MUST read and ALSO to learn about the basic knowledge of Cyber-Security!
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January 27, 2013 12:51 PM
A MUST read and ALSO to learn about the basic knowledge of Cyber-Security!
- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/category/get-smart-with-5-minutes-tutorials/
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Facebook's new search engine serves up the kind of data that cyber scammers love
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A MUST read...
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