PUBLIC MARKS with tag privacy

The other day, my eleven-year-old son handed me my iPhone with an accusatory air, as if to say: So this is what you people do behind our backs. While he was looking at stocks, he came across a news item reporting that AT&T, with another company, was about to introduce a snap-around-the-wrist, GPS-tracking, emergency-button-featuring, watch-like thingie for children. It’s called FiLIP, comes in bright colors, and has two-way calling and parent-to-child texting. It allows you to set safe zones, so that you’re alerted when your child enters or leaves a designated area.

This is the third story in our four-part series examining your digital trail and who potentially has access to it. It was co-reported by G.W. Schulz from the Center for Investigative Reporting. Yesterday, we examined how data-tracking companies are monitoring your online behavior. Today we look at your Fourth Amendment rights.

This is the second story in our four-part series examining your digital trail and who potentially has access to it. It was co-reported by G.W. Schulz from the Center for Investigative Reporting. Yesterday, we examined how data can be collected as you go through your everyday life. Today we look at how data-tracking companies are monitoring your online behavior.

While the collection of private information by the National Security Agency is under scrutiny worldwide, a remarkable amount of your digital trail is also available to local law enforcement officers, IRS investigators, the FBI and private attorneys. And in some cases, it can be used against you.

Polygon's investigation of the surveillance technology being used by the real city of Chicago shows a truth uncomfortably close to the fiction.

Le futur règlement européen protégeant notre vie privée est menacé par le lobby des géants de l'Internet, qui analysent tout ce que nous regardons et disons en ligne. Découvrez pourquoi ce règlement est important et comment ces lobbys sont en train de le changer. Apprenez à échapper à ces entreprises en reprenant le contrôle de vos données.

In his great and prophetic novel “1984,” George Orwell laid out his vision of what totalitarianism would look like if taken to its logical extreme. The government — in the form of Big Brother — sees all and knows all. The Party rewrites the past and controls the present. Heretics pop up on television screens so they can be denounced by the populace.

As the internet continues to evolve, issues surrounding privacy remain a common cause for concern. There is growing anxiety among internet users of how their online activities are tracked for commercial purposes. The business model behind this is generally to aggregate a large number of users in order to sell that audience’s aggregate attention, usually in the form of advertising.  After all, “If you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.”

In recent months, I’ve started to take my own digital security much more seriously. I encrypt my e-mail when possible, I’ve moved away from Gmail, and I’ve become much more vigilant about using a VPN nearly all the time. Just as cryptographers and security researchers are auditing tools like TrueCrypt, I’ve started to kick the tires of the products that I rely upon on a daily basis.

Cette année, le repas de Thanksgiving risque d'être tendu chez les Zuckerberg. Directrice marketing de Facebook jusqu'en 2011 et désormais entrepreneuse indépendante, Randi Zuckerberg, la sœur de Mark, publie un livre pour enfants (à paraître le 5 novembre) qui explique les dangers de l'abus d'utilisation d'Internet et critique l'addiction aux réseaux sociaux, relate le New York Magazine.

You don’t need to be talking to a terror suspect to have your communications data analysed by the NSA. The agency is allowed to travel “three hops” from its targets – who could be people who talk to people who talk to people who talk to you. Facebook, where the typical user has 190 friends, shows how three degrees of separation gets you to a network bigger than the population of Colorado. How many people are three “hops” from you?

Used by over a million people, Disconnect lets you visualize & block the invisible websites that track you

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Snoop through 7 mobiles to find the secrets people hide in this dual screen interactive story.

Le futur règlement européen protégeant notre vie privée est menacé par le lobby des géants de l'Internet, qui analysent tout ce que nous regardons et disons en ligne. Découvrez pourquoi ce règlement est important et comment ces lobbys sont en train de le changer. Appelez vos députés pour leur donner votre opinion avant le vote crucial du 21 octobre. Apprenez à échapper à ces entreprises en reprenant le contrôle de vos données.

Some of the biggest companies in tech are assembling new forms of online tracking that would follow users more aggressively than the open technologies used today. Just this week, word arrived that Microsoft is developing such a system, following, apparently, in the footsteps of Google.

Big Brother not only watches your sex life, he analyses it. It sounds nightmarish — but it might be inevitable. So far, attempts to control surveillance have generally failed. We could be headed straight for the panopticon, and if recent news developments are any indication, it might not take that long to get there.

w long can you hold out? You'll see a short list of privacy questions and a ticking timer. Good luck.

Sous-Surveillance.net est une cartographie participative, collaborative et accessible au plus grand nombre. Elle permet de rendre visible la prolifération des caméras tout en collectant un maximum d’informations les concernant.

Putting you in control of your personal information at Mozilla

Mozilla's cookie-blocking plan has been controversial from the start. As much as privacy hawks praised it, it was blasted by the interactive advertising industry for its potential to wipe out smaller Web publishers that rely on third-party ads to stay in business. And unlike with Microsoft's default Do Not Track browser, which simply sends a signal, Mozilla's plan can't be ignored. 

A daily collection of #Privacy tweets from around the Twitterverse

ZXX, as the typeface is called, comes in four flavors, each exploiting a different weakness in existing OCR tech. The “Camo” style obscures letterforms with camofalgue-style blobs. “Noise” splatters them with digital graffiti. “X’ed” just lays a big, crisp X over each letter, and “False” adorns each letter with another tiny, secondary letters. With each–or better yet, a mix of them all–Mun shows how it’s still possible to print a message that can’t be snooped on by some camera peeking over a shoulder.

The name ZXX comes from the Library of Congress' Alpha-3 ISO 639-2 -- codes for the representation of names of languages. ZXX is used to declare No linguistic content; Not applicable. Free Open Type Font to open up governments.