We are fast approaching Data Privacy Day (Jan. 28) 2013, when the USA, Canada and 27 countries of the European Union will “raise awareness of and generate discussion about data privacy rights and practices.”
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Kim Dotcom’s new end-to-end encrypted file storage and sharing service, Mega, is being billed as The Privacy Company that “provides robust cloud storage with convenient and powerful, always-on privacy. MEGA believes in your right to privacy and provides you with the technology tools to protect it.
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German government's surveillance software unsettles a nation that prizes privacy
Quartz The document doesn't say which Gamma product the agency has bought, but it is likely FinSpy, which was previously tested in Germany in 2011. BKA, which denied using the program, plans to surveil Skype and telephone conversations, e-mails, and chats of … Report claims that German police are using commercial spyware German feds will have own spyware by 2014, FinFisher for now German Federal Criminal Police acquires interim government trojan from Gamma |
Does tracking the position of your mouse cursor pose a privacy risk? A UK company said some advertisements are setup with JavaScript to determine the mouse position and thereby determine if an ad was displayed in the browser window. Advertising analytics company Spider.io claimed that two companies were exploiting this via a flaw in Microsoft IE 6 – 10. Microsoft said Spider.io has exaggerated the…
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