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So, Engadget, which is part of Oath (=Yahoo/AOL/Verizon) asks site visitors for 'permission' to transmit data on them to 436 (!) other firms, including major data brokers.
"Select 'OK' to continue using our products, otherwise, you will not be able to access our sites and apps"
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Wozniak on Zuckerberg: "He buys a house and he buys all the houses around it, and then he buys some property in Hawaii and then he buys the parcels on the side of that for his own privacy. I wish he would think of me that way as a user of Facebook" abcnews.go.com/Technology/ap…
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Cheryl Sandberg says “Facebook is open to the idea of additional government regulation” 🤔 <the kind the company likes to ignore & shows disdain for? Needs to address the seeming lack of ethics
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Mozilla has opened applications for its 2018–2019 Fellowships. Mozilla Fellows are technologists, activists, and policy experts building a more humane digital world. Apply here: foundation.mozilla.org/fello…
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Why the Cambridge Analytica-Facebook scandal is a wake-up call for all governments: Seven steps for a global response medium.com/@privacyint/why-t…
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GDPR may be the best tool to force transparency about how our Facebook data was weaponized to influence how we vote (& more). it's not just FB, the data economy (including the offline data brokers who partner with Facebook) have been unbridled for years wired.com/story/europes-new-…
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And Cambridge Analytica is not the only company that mines "psychographic data." This from the Environics website about its PRIZM5 segmentation system. Environics data has been used by Canadian parties
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Next week! 1000 amazing women in cybersecurity will descend upon @HiltonChicago courtesy of Tennessee Tech and the Illinois Institute of Technology, our #WiCyS2018 Conference organizing hosts!!
#womenincybersecurity
#womenininfosec
#womeninprivacy
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No! Personal data belongs to the individual to whom it relates, which is why it should be under their control. That’s why consent features so prominently in privacy: it’s not about ownership; it’s all about personal control. xitter.gq/noraniloideain/status/…
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What is corporate surveillance? Watch our short video (3m05s) explaining the risks of data exploitation and we need to do about it: privacyinternational.org/vid…
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Every year, thousands of people are victims of identity theft. Here are some tips for guarding against it.
priv.gc.ca/en/privacy-topics…
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.@kashhill and I monitored her smart home for two months. Here’s what we found:
gizmodo.com/the-house-that-s…
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#PSV2018 welcomes @AndrewClement, Professor; Co-Founder, Identity Privacy and Security Insitute (IPSI), as a Speaker. Register now @ ow.ly/6AvL30fO1JZ @Reboot_Comm @IPSIns
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Forgot to make resolutions? No time like the present! Read our blog for ideas on how to protect privacy in 2018.
blog.priv.gc.ca/index.php/20…
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New report! #ConnectedCars: What Happens To Our Data On Rental Cars? We dug into what happens to the information that is generated, collected, stored, on cars we rent: privacyinternational.org/nod…
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Google's new app privacy standards mean big changes for developers: techrepublic.com/article/goo…
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Some 1.3 million refugees are trying to relocate around the world but can’t be identified. Our new #Blockchange initiative is exploring how #blockchain technologies for #socialchange can apply to identity. blockchan.ge/
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Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could transform and update privacy rights in the digital era. @ACLU's @NateWessler will argue. Go Nate! aclu.org/blog/privacy-techno…