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Re: Invading Your Privacy

Postby MRGREEN » Fri Feb 17, 2012 7:17 pm

Canadians Respond To Internet Spying Bill By 'Revealing All' To Politician Backing It
The old trick of using child pornography as way to convince people to support your bill sort of backfired on this Canadian politician and now he's a national joke! I guess there actually IS a limit to the number of times you can play that card before people finally start catching on!
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The really ridiculous part was that the Public Safety Minister pushing the bill, Vic Toews pulled out the ridiculous logical fallacy that anyone against the bill was "for child pornography." That, of course, is insane. But, because this is the internet, it responds as it does best, by creating a meme. Tons of people on Twitter are revealing all sorts of random information with Toews on Twitter using the hashtag #TellVicEverything.

LINK: TellVicEverything!
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Re: Invading Your Privacy

Postby wildrose » Fri Feb 24, 2012 8:05 am

Internet Bill Of Rights
This bill which is proposed by the Obama Administration would require companies to respect the privacy of users. Theis "bill of rights" will include seven principles to protect consumers' digital privacy, such as the right to opt out of having their personal data collected and the right to having easily understandable policies on company's privacy practices. Sounds like a good idea to me!
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Re: Invading Your Privacy

Postby desertrat » Wed Mar 07, 2012 9:14 am

Govt. agencies, colleges demand applicants' Facebook passwords
This practice should be completely illegal! I know that it is illegal to ask certain questions during a job interview and this should without a doubt be added to the list. Anyone who has not been given a job in the past after an interview including a request of this kind should be able to file a lawsuit and collect hundreds of thousands of dollars. That's the only way that those who wish to invade the privacy of private citizens will learn their lesson! Some things fall into the category of NOYFB when it comes to this kind of thing!
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In Maryland, job seekers applying to the state's Department of Corrections have been asked during interviews to log into their accounts and let an interviewer watch while the potential employee clicks through wall posts, friends, photos and anything else that might be found behind the privacy wall. Previously, applicants were asked to surrender their user name and password, but a complaint from the ACLU stopped that practice last year. While submitting to a Facebook review is voluntary, virtually all applicants agree to it out of a desire to score well in the interview, according Maryland ACLU legislative director Melissa Coretz Goemann.

LINK: http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/06/10585353-govt-agencies-colleges-demand-applicants-facebook-passwords
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Re: Invading Your Privacy

Postby pcslim » Sun Mar 18, 2012 7:39 am

FBI Can’t Crack Android; Taps Google To Sidestep 5th Amendment
Sounds like Android uses a pretty good encryption algorithm!!! :pacman:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation raised some eyebrows this week when it tacitly admitted it couldn’t get past the pattern lock on an Android handset, by serving Google with a warrant to access data stored on a secured Samsung Exhibit II phone. Electronic Frontier Foundation staff attorney Hanni Fakhoury compares the situation to two recent cases in which authorities ordered defendants to decrypt files stored on disk drives. Those cases were, for technical reasons, decided differently – but the main distinction, according to Fakhoury, is that in this instance the FBI sidestepped some thorny Fifth Amendment questions by going straight to Google, which created the Android mobile operating system. “What we have here is the government not asking the owner of the phone to open the phone for them, but asking Google to open the phone for them,” he told Tech.li.

LINK: http://tech.li/2012/03/fbi-cant-crack-android-taps-google-to-sidestep-5th-amendment/
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Re: Invading Your Privacy

Postby wildrose » Wed Mar 21, 2012 6:59 am

Employers Ask Job Seekers for Facebook Passwords
This is totally unacceptable and as DesertRat said a couple posts ago, there should be a law against this practice! Employers have no business interfering with what employees do while not at work!
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Re: Invading Your Privacy

Postby desertrat » Sat Mar 24, 2012 6:50 am

"By Bureaucratic Magic YOU've Now ALL Been Turned Into Domestic Terrorist!"
Governments and corporations should not be allowed to store any information on the communications of private citizens period! This kind of thing should require a search warrant and such warrants should only be granted if there is substantial evidence that an individual is involved in criminal activity. On top of that, certain supposed crimes should not exist, further reducing the excuses for governmental (and corporate) intrusion into our lives!
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Re: Invading Your Privacy

Postby desertrat » Mon Mar 26, 2012 5:56 am

The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)
My new word for the day: YOTTABYTE :pacman:
(A yottabyte is a septillion bytes—so large that no one has yet coined a term for the next higher magnitude.)

There is still one technology preventing untrammeled government access to private digital data: strong encryption. Anyone—from terrorists and weapons dealers to corporations, financial institutions, and ordinary email senders—can use it to seal their messages, plans, photos, and documents in hardened data shells. For years, one of the hardest shells has been the Advanced Encryption Standard, one of several algorithms used by much of the world to encrypt data. Available in three different strengths—128 bits, 192 bits, and 256 bits—it’s incorporated in most commercial email programs and web browsers and is considered so strong that the NSA has even approved its use for top-secret US government communications. Most experts say that a so-called brute-force computer attack on the algorithm—trying one combination after another to unlock the encryption—would likely take longer than the age of the universe. For a 128-bit cipher, the number of trial-and-error attempts would be 340 undecillion (1036).

Breaking into those complex mathematical shells like the AES is one of the key reasons for the construction going on in Bluffdale. That kind of cryptanalysis requires two major ingredients: super-fast computers to conduct brute-force attacks on encrypted messages and a massive number of those messages for the computers to analyze.

LINK: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1
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Re: Invading Your Privacy

Postby wildrose » Tue Mar 27, 2012 8:12 am

Should it be illegal to ask job candidates for Facebook passwords?
The answer to this question is pretty obvious! Employers need to stay out of an employees personal business! Period! End of discussion!!!
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Is it legal for employers to do this?
It's kind of a gray area. Schumer and Blumenthal say the practice probably violates anti-discrimination laws, since it potentially gives companies a look at an applicant's religious views, ethnicity, sexual preference, and other protected information. It may also flout laws against unauthorized access to electronic data. Facebook agrees, noting that sharing your password also violates the company's terms of service, and could open employers to lawsuits. Employment lawyers aren't unanimously convinced by these arguments. "I cannot see any reason why a boss could not at least ask the question," Paula Whelan at Shakespeares law firm tells The Daily Telegraph. "Prospective employees have every right to say 'no'."

LINK: http://theweek.com/article/index/226035/should-it-be-illegal-to-ask-job-candidates-for-facebook-passwords
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Re: Invading Your Privacy

Postby cactuspete » Sun Apr 01, 2012 6:47 am

NSA vs USA: Total surveillance zooms-in on Americans :frightened:
Here's some more information about the NSA and that data center in Utah.
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Re: Invading Your Privacy

Postby mrfish » Thu Apr 05, 2012 6:53 am

Cops Tracking Us Through Our Cell Phones
More proof that the Constitution has become irrelevant! :curse:
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Re: Invading Your Privacy

Postby desertrat » Sat May 05, 2012 7:50 am

FBI: We need wiretap-ready Web sites - now :curse:
This constant push to invade the privacy of citizens has got to stop! This is ridiculous! It's not a matter of safety and security, it's a matter of expanding government power and control!
The FBI is quietly pushing its plan to force surveillance backdoors on social networks, VoIP, and Web e-mail providers, and that the bureau is asking Internet companies not to oppose a law making those backdoors mandatory.

LINK: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57428067-83/fbi-we-need-wiretap-ready-web-sites-now/
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Re: Invading Your Privacy

Postby wildrose » Fri May 11, 2012 6:59 am

Bill Would Stop Employers Asking for Facebook Passwords :mad002:
It's astounding that this is even an issue. The idea of an employer even asking for a private password is just so absurd that it doesn't seem conceivable that such an event could occur! This makes as much sense as an employer requiring that an employee provide copies of his/her house keys so that the employer can make surprise inspections of the employee's residence whenever the urge arises. This is completely intolerable and the mere fact that this conversation is even occurring is quite disturbing. This is such an incredible invasion of privacy that there is nothing to debate here. There is no way to justify an employer asking for this type of personal information. Period. End of story.
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