Tagged: privacy

Best Podcast Ever w/ Jaylon Carter & Michael Scala 0

Best Podcast Ever – Emotional Support Peacock

 In this episode Jaylon Carter and Mike Scala discuss how to find out the ways Facebook has you profiled, what would happen to our privacy and free speech rights if the government built a national 5G network, tablets for prisoners and a world where ball-less soccer teams are plausible. Subscribe to The Best Podcast Ever on iTunes or Spreaker. Jaylon CarterJaylon Carter is a blogger, social media marketing consultant, former Congressional Campaign Media & Communications Director, national labor union vice block leader, and a Hip Hop artist who performs under the stage name Timid (@timidmc). www.IndiePundit.com

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Dear Law Enforcement – It’s Your Fault We Justifiably Don’t Trust You

There’s been a lot of fuss lately about Apple’s move to take themselves out of the encryption loop when it comes to having access to your private data that you store on products you purchase from them. Apple will no longer have access to the private keys that can decrypt the information on your personal devices. Google quickly followed suit. The decision makes them unable to comply with law enforcement’s request for your private information. The move was celebrated by users concerned with the privacy of things they save on devices that have become ubiquitous to modern life. That ubiquity...

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The Privacy War is Deeper Than The Battle of Verizon

It has come to light that the NSA, via a secret court order, is being handed the information on the calls of millions of people on the Verizon network. The order, signed by Judge Roger Vinson, compels Verizon to produce to the NSA electronic copies of “all call detail records or ‘telephony metadata’ created by Verizon for communications between the United States and abroad” or “wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls”. The order directs Verizon to “continue production on an ongoing daily basis thereafter for the duration of this order”. It specifies that the records to be...

Instagram Says They’re Listening Or Did They Just Get Caught? 1

Instagram Says They’re Listening Or Did They Just Get Caught?

Instagram unveiled their new Terms of Service on Monday that is set to take effect on January 16, 2013. Then the earth moved. Their new TOS gave them the rights to sell your filtered photos free of finagling a fair fee or asking your permission. (Points for alliteration?) Picture sharers were visibly upset, as seen in their Instagram photos. Ok that’s not true but they were mad and had good reason to be. Some or all of the Service may be supported by advertising revenue. To help us deliver interesting paid or sponsored content or promotions, you agree that a...

Remove Yourself From Major Background Check Web Sites 0

Remove Yourself From Major Background Check Web Sites

You’re private information is everywhere and searchable. You can get old and current addresses and phone numbers all over the place. Companies have published that information on the net for anyone to get access too. Sometimes you get a free limited search other times you have to pay for more detailed information. Well, not everyone is happy to have their information so readily available to anyone with an internet connection. A Reddit user has compiled a list of opt-out links for the major background check web sites. A few extra This They this. Hair domain Turn-over skin. After Aveeno www.woodlands11.net...