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Category archives: Privacy Concerns
How to Protect Your Internet Browsing Data (Since It’s for Sale Now)
How to maintain your privacy when internet service providers can sell your browsing history without permission.
‘Downright Creepy’: Internet Entrepreneurs Weigh in on Repeal of Internet Privacy Rules
But the repeal of the FCC rules could also mean greater opportunity for smaller companies that prioritize customer privacy.
Senate Votes to Reverse FCC Consumer Internet Privacy Rules
The regulations were intended to require more transparency on the part of ISPs.
Why Yahoo’s Secret Scanning of Emails May Be a Terrifying Sign of What’s to Come
The order on Yahoo from a secret court last year resulted from the government’s drive to change decades of interpretation of the Fourth Amendment right of people to be secure against ‘unreasonable searches and seizures.’
U.S. Senator Probes Pokemon GO Maker Over Data Privacy Concerns
Senator Al Franken of Minnesota sent a letter to Niantic Chief Executive John Hanke asking what user data Pokemon GO collects, how the data is used and with what third party service providers that data may be shared.
Microsoft Offers First Major Endorsement of New EU-U.S. Data Privacy Pact
The company’s endorsement of the Privacy Shield comes amidst criticism of it by privacy groups for failing to address concerns about U.S. surveillance practices.