January’s web-wide protests of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) were effective.  They were so effective, in fact, that the alarming piece of legislation fell apart and died in its tracks. The threat is far from over, however, as other nefarious pieces of legislation have popped up in its place, including ACTA and CISPA. Now, [...]

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Is Siri a security risk? It’s at least possible, says IBM. The company has banned the use of Apple’s digital iPhone 4S assistant. IBM Chief Technology Officer Jeanette Horan has banned Siri, as well as other digital commercial products like Dropbox. Horan says Apple’s Siri may represent a security risk to anyone dealing with confidential [...]

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It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. The House of Representatives was supposed to debate the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act last night (Thursday) and then vote on it today (Friday). As usual, though, Congress is trying to speed things up before the outcry over the questionable piece of legislation becomes to loud [...]

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An online petition to protest the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, otherwise known as CISPA, has reached over three-quarters of a million signatures. As of this writing, the petition, launched on April 5 on Avaaz.org, has over 765,000 signature. The petition describes CISPA as a bill “that would give private companies and the U.S. [...]

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Fresh off their $25,000 for allegedly blocking a federal privacy investigation, Google is now the subject of a second federal investigation into its privacy practices that could result in an even bigger hit to the company’s bottom line. The Federal Trade Commission is now investigating the search giant’s actions in bypassing the default privacy settings [...]

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As our lives become increasingly more digital, many of us share more and more information on social media sites. Consequently, employers and colleges have started to request access to our personal profiles as a way to learn more about us. Should the same standards of privacy we’ve come to expect offline apply online as well? [...]

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If there’s one thing that’s become abundantly clear over the last few months, it’s that the internet won’t be completely safe until the government runs out of acronyms. Having safely defeated SOPA and PIPA, and fatally wounded ACTA, along comes CISPA. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 (CISPA), also known as H.R. [...]

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As the debate rages on about employers asking their potential new hires for their Facebook login credentials, one man has opted to take a stand. Reginald Scott Braithwaite, a (former) Director of Software Development, wrote the resignation letter below after a new COO took charge and ordered that extensive “background checks” be done on new [...]

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Facebook has jumped into the debate over whether employers should be allowed to ask potential employees for their login credentials to the world’s most popular social network. Many rattled interviewees have come forward recently to report that employers have asked for their Facebook passwords during job interviews, sparking debates over privacy and just how much [...]

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A 12-year-old girl in Minnesota is suing the local school district after a Facebook post got her suspended. With help from the American Civil Liberties Union, the girl is suing the school district because the Minnewaska Area Middle School allegedly searched her Facebook status updates and email accounts. The girl, identified in the lawsuit filed [...]

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Almost all of us use social networking sites – whether it’s for our businesses or for our own personal use. However, things start to get a bit uncomfortable when one finds out they don’t have control over their own personal information. Consumers just don’t have the legal rights to control how their personal data is [...]

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There’s some shocking news you need to be aware of today if you’re a cell phone user. An investigation has revealed that your Facebook smartphone app is accessing your personal text messages. Facebook admitted reading the text messages of smartphone users who had downloaded the social networking site’s app and said that it was accessing [...]

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