Your online privacy matters
Internet has become a part of everyday life. An average American spent more than 30 hours online weekly. Internet has changed the traditional way of exchanging information. However, laws and public awareness have yet to catch up the need for privacy when involving technologies. Without online privacy, our everyday life actions are being collected and monitored. Our personal information should be something that we should be able to share on our own consensus.
Who might be watching you online
Recent Posts
May

The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data
The data economy demands a new approach to antitrust rules
May

US plans for visas to require five years of social media history for many to access country
Clark Mindock New York – Independent Donald Trump‘s administration is planning to ask people applying for visas to live and work in the US, to let officials review five years’ worth of social media posts. The State Department will also ask email addresses and phone numbers, plus 15 years’ worth of work and travel history and the names and dates […]
May

UK minister says encryption on messaging services is unacceptable
By Elizabeth Piper | LONDON REUTERS Technology companies must cooperate more with law enforcement agencies and should stop offering a “secret place for terrorists to communicate” using encrypted messages, British interior minister Amber Rudd said on Sunday. Local media have reported that British-born Khalid Masood sent an encrypted message moments before killing four people last […]
May

Senate Republicans introduce anti-net neutrality legislation
BY ALI BRELAND – THE HILL Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced a bill Monday to nullify the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) net neutrality rules. “Few areas of our economy have been as dynamic and innovative as the internet,” Lee said in a statement. “But now this engine of growth is threatened by the Federal Communications […]
Apr

N.S.A. Halts Collection of Americans’ Emails About Foreign Targets
WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency said Friday that it had halted one of the most disputed practices of its warrantless surveillance program, ending a once-secret form of wiretapping that dates to the Bush administration’s post-Sept. 11 expansion of national security powers. The agency is no longer collecting Americans’ emails and texts exchanged with people […]
Apr

The Most Common Passwords In 2016 Are Truly Terrible
The most popular one of all? “123456.”