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CISPA: 6 Things You Need to Know About the Government’s New Spy Law

‘Congress is seriously considering a bill called the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). Intended to allow information-sharing both between corporations and between corporations and the government, it presents serious dangers to individual privacy.’

CISPA gets a rewrite but still threatens Americans’s Privacy

‘Foes of controversial legislation rally before expected vote next week, with scant success so far: latest draft still allows Internet companies to share customer data and communications with the National Security Agency.’

Scared of Anonymous? NSA chief says you should be

‘Anonymous has so far plied its trade in “hactivist” exploits. But according to the director of the National Security Agency, it might soon turn its focus to U.S. infrastructure.’

PCFIPA: SOPA replacement uses child porn as excuse to spy on 99.7 percent of Americans

‘The SOPA and PIPA bills that went down in flames earlier this year for their unbearable intrusiveness, used content piracy as an excuse to give the government powerful tools with which to censor Internet content. For 2012 the primary author of those bills has switched to a fallback tactic: using child porn as an excuse to create a vast surveillance network from which the government can demand data on every email sent, site visited or link clicked on by all but a fraction of one percent of the U.S. population.’

Google, Microsoft, or Facebook: Who Dropped The Ball With Your Online Privacy?

‘Google, Microsoft, and Facebook are locked in a precarious blame game about who failed with your online privacy. First, Google gets caught bypassing a security feature in Safari that allowed the company to track users despite the no-tracking settings in Safari. Then yesterday, Microsoft charged Google for doing a similar thing with Internet Explorer users. Lots of smoke so far, but is there a fire?’

Google & Facebook Trick Internet Explorer into Accepting Tracking Cookies, Microsoft Claims

‘Google was caught last week bypassing default privacy settings in the Safari browser in order to serve up tracking cookies. The company claimed the situation was an accident and limited only to the Safari web browser, but today Microsoft claimed Google is doing much the same thing with Internet Explorer.’

Data collection arms race feeds privacy fears

‘This week’s revelations that Google Inc, Twitter and other popular Internet companies have been taking liberties with customer data have prompted criticism from privacy advocates and lawmakers, along with apologies from the companies.’

Google Tracked iPhones, Bypassing Apple Browser Privacy Settings

‘Google Inc. and other advertising companies have been bypassing the privacy settings of millions of people using Apple Inc.’s Web browser on their iPhones and computers—tracking the Web-browsing habits of people who intended for that kind of monitoring to be blocked.’

7 Privacy Threats the Constitution Can’t Protect You Against http://mys.tc/1rj surveillance civil liberties

7 Privacy Threats the Constitution Can’t Protect You Against

1) Everything you use, all the time; 2) Cameras everywhere: License plate readers, movement tracking on cameras; 3) Biometrics; 4) Government databases; 5) FAST (Future Attribute Screening Technology); 6) Drones; 7) Super drones that know who you are!